INDIAN BAMBUSE.E; GAMBLE. 99 
species I also doubtfully refer the specimens which I collected in 1880 at 4,000 feet in 
the British Bhutan hills and called Де! by the Lepchas. Mann says that the culms 
are used for basket work and to make pipes, 
Ррате Хо. 86.—Teinostachyum Grifithii, Munro, 1, part of leaf- and flowering-branch ; 
2, end of flowering shoot; 3, culm-sheath—of natural size; 4, leaf-sheath; 5, fertile 
flower; 6, flowering glume; 7, palea; 8 lodieule ; 9 stamens and ovary with lodicules 
(open); 10, ovary, style and stigmas—enlarged. (Nos. 1, 9, 5, 8, 9 from Fitch’s draw- 
ing in Munro l. c. t. 3; rest from Mann’s specimens.) 
2. 'Тетловтаснуом Уланти, Beddome Flora Sylv. сехххіії, РІ, ccexxiii. 
A tall, semi-scandent bamboo, Culms at first erect, afterwards supported by the 
branches of the forest trees under which they grow, and then branches pendulous, 10 
to 20 feet long, 1 to 15 in. in diameter, bright green; nodes marked by a narrow but 
conspicuous ring; internodes 14 to 18 in. long, rough above and having a white glaucous 
band below the node; walls thin, “02 to :15 in.  Culm-sheatós thin, papery, 10 to 12 in. 
long by 3 to 4 in. broad, the sides parallel below, gradually narrowing above to a 
truncate top, which is not auricled; 1 to 12 in. broad, thickly clothed on the back with 
brown-black appressed hairs; imperfect blade subulate-acuminate,  reflexed, slightly 
decurrent on the sheath, 5 to 7 in. long by 4 to "5 in. broad, striate, somewhat hairy ; 
ligule 1 in., entire. Leaves oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, 6 to 15 in. long, 1 to 2 in. 
broad, unequal at the base; rounded or attenuated into а '3 to 4 in. long petiole; ending 
above in a subulate, scabrous twisted point; glabrous above, sparingly hairy and whitish 
beneath, scabrous on one margin; main vein broad, yellowish, conspicuous, secondary 
veins 8 to 10 pairs, intermediate 6 to 7, transverse veinlets scanty, not prominent, formed 
by glands in the leaf; /eaf-sheaths glabrous, striated, truncate at top; Пуше narrow, faintly 
toothed. Inflorescence a large terminal drooping panicle of spiciform branchlets, the spikes 
supported by ovate-acuminate bracts at the joints of the rachis and bearing chiefly fertile 
spikelets; rachis smooth, slender, thickened above. Spikelets "5 to 1 in. long, bearing 2 
to 3 fertile flowers and 1 terminal incomplete flower; rachilla slender, smooth, concavely 
flattened below, thickened above and slightly ciliate at top; empty glume ovate, mucronate, 
-2 in. long, faintly hirsute on the back, 2- to T- nerved; jlowering-glumes 1 or 2, similar 
but longer, mucronate and transversely veined; palea rather shorter than flowering glumes, 
2-keeled, blunt or emarginate, ciliate on the keels, l-nerved between keels and 2- to 
3.nerved at the sides. Lodicules small, 1 in. long, ovate, triangular, ciliate above, concave 
below, 3- to 5-nerved, persistent. Stamens exserted, filaments slender, anthers obtuse. 
Ovary depressed-globose, smooth, stipitate, the style included in the long beak of the 
perigynium and ending in 2 short plumose stigmas. Cuaryopsis glabrous, ovoid, on a 
thick stalk and surmounted by a beak. А 
Slopes of the Western Gháts from N. Kanara down to Cape Comorin, usually at 
from 3,000 to 5,000 feet, and almost always in the undergrowth of big tree-forest ; 
ai Hi 4,000 feet. 
ees и wakes is distinguished easily from the other species by its long, lax, 
drooping, many-flowered panicle, broad leaves, papery hirsute sheath, and small blunt 
lodicules. It was gathered in flower by Beddome in the Anamalai Hills (year not 
recorded); by myself on the Sispara Ghat in 1883 and 1884, and by J. A. Bourdillon 
Ахх. Вот. Вот. Garp. CALCUTTA, Vou. VII. 
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