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veinlets ; leaf-sheath striate, with appressed white hairs when young, afterwards glabrous, 
somewhat keeled, mouth truncate, furnished with a lunate reflexed auricle fringed with 
stiff bristles, and early caducous; ligule narrow, entire. Inflorescence a large com- 
pound interrupted panicle of small sub-globose heads, bearing several fertile and many 
sterile spikelets, often leaf-bearing; the rachis very pubescent, flexuose, flattened on one 
side, “5 to 15 in. in length; heads 8 to 5 in. in diameter. Spikelets very small, “1 to 
15 in. long, '1 in. broad, glabrous, blunt or truncate, 2-cleft, with 2 fertile flowers and 1 
empty terminal abortive flower on a produced rachilla ; empty glumes 2, broadly oval, ven- 
tricose, very shortly mucronate; lowering glume similar, often ciliate on the edges; palea 
as long as the flowering glume, broadly boat-shaped, shortly and bluntly 2-toothed, 
2-keeled, ciliate on the keels and 4- to 5-nerved between. Lodicules 3, large, ovate, blunt, 
long-ciliate. Stamens free, filaments short; anthers yellowish, bluntly acute at the tip. 
Ovary glabrous, ovoid-globose, surmounted by а short thick style; stigmas 2 or 8, 
short, plumose.  Caryopsis large, sub-globular, 1 to 15 in. in diameter, the summit 
depressed, the base supported by the persistent glumes, at first glossy-green, then 
brown; pericarp about "09 to 1 in. thick, very coriaceous; seed large, fleshy. 
PsEUDOSTACHYUM COMPACTIFLORUM, Kurz For. Fl. Burma її. 567. 
Eastern Bengal and Burma, from Sylhet through Chittagong down to Martaban, 
said by Kurz to occur rarely under 3,000 ft. in altitude, and to be frequent only between 
4,000 and 6,000 ft. It has been collected in Sylhet in 1889 by Tara Kisor Gupta for 
G. Mann (leaves and sheaths only). It was also collected in Chittagong by Dr. W. Schlich 
in 1875, also in leaf only. In Burma, it was collected first of all in Martaban and in 
the Karen Hills by Kurz in 1871, in flower; and J. W. Oliver found it on the 
Arracan Хота Range in the Thayetmyo District in 1878, and in the Ruby Mines 
Distriet in 1894. 
This interesting bamboo has the appearance of a Dendrocalamus, but differs in being 
‘scandent and having a very large seed and large lodicules. It seems to be a handsome 
species and to be common. In Burma it is known as Wa-nwe, in Chittagong as Lota, 
and in Sylhet as Daral (Bengali). It is there used for basket-work, There is a figure 
of flowers and fruit by Kurz in ad. Forester, vol. i, 219, plate II, 13, which is 
attributed to this species by Bentham in the Genera Plantarum, and which has been 
utilized in my plate. ! 
Ръдте Хо. 84.—JMelocalamus | compactiflorus, Benth. and Hook. fil. 1, leaf-branch; 2, 
2 (а), portions of flower-panicle; 3, young shoot showing culm-sheaths; 3, culm-sheath—of 
natural size; 4, auricle of leaf-sheath ; 5, spikelet; 6, empty glume; 7, palea; 8, lodicule ; 
9, stamen; 10, ovary; 11, young fruit ; 12, caryopsis—enlarged. (1 to ll from Kurz 
Burma specimens, 12 from Kurz Plate II, 13 in “Bamboo and its use," Indian 
Forester, vol. i. 219.) 
9. Pseudostachyum, Munro. 
A large shrubby bamboo with single culms from a creeping rhizome. Culms smooth, 
thin-walled; nodes not swollen. Culm-sheaths shorter than internodes, truncate-triangular, 
imperfect blade long. Leaves large, glabrous, with many transverse veinlets. Inflorescence a 
large leafy panicle of drooping bracteate spikes, rachis wiry. Spikelets small, 1-flowered, 
with a terminal produced тасћ а and abortive floret. Empty glumes usually only 1, 
broad, mucronate. Flowering glume similar to empty glumes. Palea thin, much convolute, 
