94 ANNALS OF THE ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN, CALCUTTA. 
hairy, produced upwards into a narrow hairy style with club-shaped purple stigma. 
Caryopsis not known. 
Upper Burma, collected at Fort Stedman by Abdul Huk for the Royal Botanic 
Gardens, Calcutta, in 1892. 
Although only the flowers of this species are known, I have no hesitation in 
describing it here, as it is so distinct and so well characterised by the soft white-hairy 
spikelets. I have named it after General Sir Н. Collett, к.с.в., who has done so 
much to make known the flora of Upper Burma. 
Prate No. 83,—Dendrocalamus Collettianus, Gamble. 1 and 2, flowering branches—of 
natural size; З, spikelet; 4, empty glume; 5, flowering glum2; 6, palea; 7, anthers; 
&, ovary and style—enlarged. 
Species of DENDROCALAMUS now referred to other genera. 
IE de, Чо. А = Bambusa Вабооа, Roxb. 
D. criticus, Kurz |. š я Р = Bambusa pallida, Munro. 
D. Grifithianus, Kurz . - 1 = Bambusa Griffithiana, Munro. 
D. monadelphus, Thw. |. . 5 = Oxytenanthera Thwaitesii, Munro. 
D. Tulda, Voigt 3 3 ? š = Bambusa Tulda, Roxb. 
8. Melocalamus, Benth. 
An arborescent bamboo of moderate size, unarmed. Culms from a thick rootstock, 
semi-scandent.  Culm-sheaths cylindrical, hard, auricled. Leaves large, petiolate, without 
transverse veinlets. Inflorescence a large compound panicle, the spikelets in round 
congested heads in long spikes. Spikelets very small, 2-flowered, rachilla continuous 
between the flowers and produced beyond them, flowers both hermaphrodite, one only 
fertile. Empty glumes 2, broad, blunt, muticous, many-nerved. Flowering glumes similar to 
empty glumes. Palea as long as flowering glume, very broad, 2-keeled, membranaceous. 
Lodicules 3, large. Stamens 6, filaments free, anthers blunt. Ovary glabrous, with short 
style and 2 to 3 plumose stigmas. Caryopsis very large, globose, depressed, with a tough 
pericarp and large, free, fleshy seed. 
Distrib.—One species. 
1. MzLocaLAMUS COMPACTIFLORUS, В. and Hook. f. in Gen. РІ. ii. 1212. 
An evergreen, tufted, arborescent bamboo. Culms greyish-green, rough, scandent, 
spreading and arching, 15 to 25 ft. high or more, sometimes even up to 100 ft. and 
climbing over tall trees, 05 to 1 in. in diameter; nodes thickened; internodes 14 to 
24 in. long. Culm-sheaths persistent, hard, brittle, cylindrical, smooth or covered with 
"white appressed hairs, truncate at the mouth, dilated at the base, about 6 in. long 
by 3 in. broad; imperfect blade nearly as long as, or longer than, the sheath, recurved, 
long-acuminate, rounded at the base and then spreading out into a narrow, dark, reflexed, 
crescent-shaped auricle, fringed with stiff bristles, hispidly hairy towards the base; 
ligule narrow, entire. Leaves large, oblong-lanceolate, rounded at the base into a hairy 
petiole “1 to “2 in. long; ending in a subulate, acuminate, penicillate, scabrous twisted 
point, scabrous on one edge; 6 to 10 in. long by 1 to 2 in. broad; main vein 
narrow, prominient, secondary veins 8 to 12 pairs, intermediate 4 to 6, no transverse 
