INDIAN ВАМВОЗЕЖ; GAMBLE. 101 
4. Тегховтаснусм DULLOOA, п. sp. Gamble. 
А moderate-sized or large tufted bamboo sometimes more or less scandent. Culms 
variable in size, from 20 to 30 ft. long, 1 to 3 in. in diameter, dark green with a 
few whitish hairs, whitish below the nodes, glossy when dry; nodes little prominent ; 
internodes 16 to 30 in. and even to 40 in. long; walls thin. Culm-sheaths variable in 
size, according to the culms, from 6 in. long and 4 in. broad up to 12 in. long and 10 
in. broad, striate, with scattered white appressed hairs prominent above, rounded at 
top and then somewhat concavely truncate and loosely fringed with stiff bristles; imper fect 
blade narrow, subulate, recurved, very hairy within, the edges convolute, З to 6 іп, 
long, "3 to 7 in. broad at the rounded base; ligule prominent, long-fimbriate, Leaves 
variable, oblong-lanceolate, acuminate; rounded, often unequally, at the base into a rather 
long 79 to *4 in, petiole; subulately acuminate above, the point scabrous, twisted; rough 
on the upper surface, minutely softly pubescent or nearly glabrous beneath, scabrous on 
both edges; main vein pale, not very prominent, secondary veins 6 to 10 pairs, inter- 
mediate about 7, no transverse veinlets, but a few pellucid dots, which have the арреаг- 
ance of transverse veinlets оп the underside; leaf-sheaths striate, ciliate on the edges, 
ending in a ciliate or glabrous callus, and furnished at the mouth with a few long, stiff, 
very deciduous bristles; Пуше broad, long-fimbriate. Jnflorescence a panicle of spiciform 
branches, bearing verticils of few spikelets, subtended by long truncate bracts. Spikelets 
"5 to 1 in. long, softly pubescent, those seen only containing imperfect flowers; glumes 
many-nerved, hairy, aristate, convolute; гаси а jointed and produced into a long point 
above the uppermost glume; rest not seen. 
Throughout Northern and Eastern Bengal and Burma, from British Bhutan through 
the Assam and Sylhet valleys and the hills between them to Chittagong and Upper 
Burma. 
Under this species I have brought together a great series of specimens gathered 
by various collectors in different parts. These specimens fall rather naturally into 
two divisions: those of large individuals with rather large leaves, and the small ones 
with small leaves, the latter being chiefly represented by the type, the only speci- 
mens which give an idea of the character of the flowers. These flowering specimens 
are those collected in the garden of the monastery at Hawyaw in the Katha district 
of Upper Burma, in February 1892, by J. W. Oliver. Oliver says that it is a “ small 
reed-like bamboo" named Thaikwaba (Burmese) and that there is а larger variety 
of the same name. It is much to be regretted that the flowers are imperfect. I have 
searched and cannot find a single fertile one, but from the spikelets, so far as they 
go, the genus seems to be this, and the species to come rather near, either to the 
Ceylon 7. attenuatum, or to the Burmese Gephalostachyum virgatum., Indeed, when we 
come to know more of the latter or obtain proper flowers of T. Dullooa, it is not 
impossible that the two may prove to be identical. Leaf specimens and culm-sheaths 
in abundance have been collected; the sheaths are very constant in character, and 
the leaves do not greatly differ from each other. The specimens here placed, therefore, 
consist of the following:—From the hills of British Bhutan, from the Róng lake, 
2,000 feet, collected in 1880 by E. Fuchs and in 1889 by С. A. Gammie, vern. 
Pogslo, paksálu (Lepcha); Tokré bans ( Nepalese) and said to be used to make quivers; 
from the Garo Hills, collected by G. Mann in 1881 and 1889 under the name 
Wadro», and said to be used for carrying water and for making umbrellas; from the 
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