102 ANNALS OF THE ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN, CALCUTTA. 
Jaintea Hills, collected by G. Mann in 1889 under the name Siloh at Sotyngia, 3,500 feet, 
and said to be used for basket-work, and to make small boxes to carry pán; from the 
Assam Valley, sent by G. Mann from Sibsagar and Kamráp under the name Dullooe 
(Assamese) and said to be used for buildings, mats and baskets; from Sylhet, collected 
at Protabgarh by Babu "Tara Kisor Gupta, and sent by С. Mann under the names 
Рош and Воја! (Bengali) the former the large, the latter the small variety; from 
Chittagong, collected by myself at Khagoreea in 1880, under the name Рош, this 
being the species which Major Lewin in his ‘Hill Tracts of Chittagong’, Caleutta, 1869, 
speaks of as а very large kind, “much used for making mats, used in loading vessels 
*with cargo", and as having flowered some 15 or 16 years previously ; and finally, the 
Burmese Thaikwaba collected in Katha, Gyawa collected in Momeik State in 1892-93 
and specimens gathered at 6,000 ft. on "laungmeé, Ruby Mines · District, in 1894, 
by J. W. Oliver. Besides these, there are specimens in the Kew collection collected by 
Hooker at Sitakund near Chittagong. It is possible that when good specimens of the 
flowers are collected, it will be found that there are two species, the smaller Thaikwaba, 
silloh, and bajad; the larger, Pogslo, wadroo, dullooa, dolu and gyawa; but in my opinion, 
and so far as it is possible to judge without the flowers, all the specimens before me 
belong to one and the same widely distributed species. 
Puate No. 89.— Тегпозгасћуит Dullooa, Gamble. 1, leaf-branch; 2, part of inflor- 
escence—of natural size; З, culm-sheaths—reduced ; 4 & 5, spikelet and bracts—enlaryed 
(from Mr. Olivers Thaikwaba). 
5. Тегховтаснүум Негғеві, Gamble. 
An evergreen, tufted, bushy or climbing bamboo. Culms 20 to 40 ft. high, "1 
to 1:5 in. in diameter, greyish-green when young, sprinkled with appressed 
whitish bristles, much arched so as to bend completely over and to touch the ground 
where they take root; nodes somewhat thickened and whitish; internodes 90 to 
50 in. long, or more, covered in the upper part with soft, whitish, velvety pubes- 
cence when young, when old with a white band; walls thin, scarcely over “1 in. 
thick. Culm-sheaths 8 to 10 in. long, persistent, thick, brittle, when young bearing 
few appressed white bristles which leave a scar when they fall, rough towards 
the base, truncate at top; imperfect blade nearly as long as the sheath, recurved, 
lanceolate, acuminate, glabrous or shortly hispid,» rounded at the base and decurrent 
as а very narrow long-fringed band on the top of the sheath; ligule narrow, 
conspicuously fringed with white stiff hairs, :2 to :3 in. long. Leaves very variable 
in size, usually large, oblong-lanceolate, 6 to 18 in. long, 1 to 3 in. broad, 
unequal at the base, and then contracted into a :3 to ‘4 in. long, broad petiole; 
cuspidate-acuminate above in a long scabrous twisted point; scabrous on marginal 
veins, otherwise smooth; glaucescent and glabrous beneath, except for a few hairs 
near the base; scabrous on the edges; main veins thick, prominent, secondary veins | 
7 to 15 pairs, rather indistinct, intermediate 5 to 7, pellucid glands showing on dry 
specimens as transverse veinlets; Jeaf-sheaths glabrous, smooth, striate, ending in а 
smooth callus and a short, very deciduous, long-fringed auricle; ligule narrow, fringed, the 
hairs very easily broken. Inflorescence in long terminal whip-like spikes, bearing distant 
heads of few spikelets; rachis very slender, densely hairy, thickened and bent s-fashion, 
