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natives and on the tea estates, as the culms are easily split and the laths are flexible 
and durable. Its recent discovery in Burma is due to W. T. McHarg, Deputy Соп- 
servator of Forests, who sent specimens through J. W. Oliver. Mr. McHarg says that 
it grows in the hills of the Bhamo district up to 1,000 feet and more, but is also to be 
found on the banks of the Irrawaddy in the Hakan Forest а few miles north of Bhamo. 
He further says—“ It is principally used by the Kachin wizards or prophesying priests, 
"who roast the stem and then prophesy according to the way the bamboo cracks or 
"splits up. It is a very thin bamboo and splits easily, and the new shoots, which 
“ате the ones used by the Kachins, grow up very straight." It is locally known in 
Sikkim by the names Filing (Nepalese) and Purphiok or paphok (Lepcha); in Assam аз 
Wachall (Garo); Ваз, tolli, па! (Assamese); in Burma аз Bawa. 
PrarE No. 85.—Pseudostachywm polymorphum, Munro. 1, leaf-branch; 2, part of fertile 
flowering branch; 3, branch bearing diseased flowers—of natural size ; 4, culm-sheath 
—much reduced; 5, portion of flower spike; 6, 7 & 8, spikelet showing flowering glume, 
palea, stamens and stigmas; 9, ovary with style; 10 & 11, the same with lodicules; 
12, young caryopsis; 13, earyopsis when ripe—enlarged. (All but Nos. 4 and 12 from 
Fitch’s drawing, Munro l. c. t. 4.) 
10. Teinostachyum, Munro, 
Shrubby or arborescent kamboos. Culms rather thin, rough, straight below, droop- 
ing above.  Culm-sheaths usually thin, awicled or not, imperfect blade recurved, Leaves 
various in size, like those of Bambusa, more usually lanceolate-acuminate. Inflorescence 
a spicate panicle, on leaf-bearing branches, the spikelets in bracteate уегнейв, Spikelets 
long, narrow, many-flowered, with imperfect flowers above and below. Empty glumes 
1-2, ovate, mucronate. Flowering glume similar with longer mucros. Рафа 2-keeled, cili- 
ate on the keels, convolute.  Lodicules З, conspicuous, persistent, 3—9-пегтед, Stamens 6, 
filaments free, slender; anthers exserted, obtuse, or obtusely apiculate. Ovary depressed- 
globose or ovate, the perigynium produced into a long beak enclosing the style, which 
is divided above into 2-3 short or long plumose stigmas,  Caryopsis ovoid, acuminate, 
beaked, with a crustaceous pericarp. 
(ANote.—In the Genera Plantarum the spikelets are described ая 1-flowered, 
Mr. Bentham having clearly determined to consider each flower as а spikelet. But 
I think that if the spikelet of the best known species—7. Grifithii—as depicted in 
the excellent Plate No. 3 in Munro’s Monograph is examined, it will be seen to be 
truly many-flowered, just like the rather similar spikelets of many species of 
Arundinaria. Kurz considered that Teinostachyum should be joined with Cephalostachyum, 
but I prefer to retain the genera of the authors of the Genera Plantarum.) 
DisrRrIB.— T'hree species from the Assam-Burma region, one from the Western Ghats, 
and one from Ceylon. | 
Analysis of the species. 
Culm- and leaf-sheaths long-auricled. 
Spikelets over 1 in. long, lodicules glabrous 
Culm- and jeaf-sheaths not, or hardly, auricled. 
Spikelets in loose terminal drooping panicles, lodicules short, ciliate, leaves large 2. T. Wighti, 
1. T. былин. 
Ахк. Вот, Por. Garb. CALCUTTA, Vor. ҮП, 
