INDIAN ВАМВОЗЕЖ; GAMBLE. 105 
Where it meets the flower heads, joints long. Spikelets (only sterile once seen! 
containing 2 to 3 empty glumes which are striate, hairy, mucronate. Rest unknown. 
Вамвова Herrer: ` Munro іп “Trans. Linn. Ко. xxvi. 114. —— PsEUDOSTACHYUM 
HELFERI, Kurz For. Fl. Burma ii. 508. 
Сато and Khasia and Jaintia Hills in Assam, and in hill forests down to the Pegu 
Yoma and Martaban, up to 3,500 feet elevation and always in moist valleys forming 
dense, almost impenetrable jungle. 
The characters of the few sterile spikelets on the specimen sent by G. Mann in 
1889 from the Garo Hills, have decided me to place this species in Teinostachyum rather 
than in JPseudosfachyum. It was first collected by Helfer in 1839 (No. 411); afterwards 
by Brandis, Wathabwot (Burmese); and Kurz Wanwae, wathabwot (Burmese). It has 
also been sent from Burma. by P. J. Carter and others. The Garo Hill specimens bear 
the name Wali, and those from the Khasia Hills Тито. It appears to be hardly used 
except for basket-work. The large unequal leaves, the long culm-internodes, (а 
specimen in tbe Dehra Dün Forest School Museum has two joints, one 48, the other 52 
in. long) the brittle thick eulm-sheath with long-fringed ligule, and the hairy rachis to 
the spikes seem the best characteristics. This species comes evidently very near to 
T. сор. It flowered in the Jaintia Hills in Assam in 1888, and then died off. 
It is also said to have flowered in Burma about 1883. 
PrArE No. 90.—Teinostachyum Нет, Gamble. 1, leaf-branch; 2, part of flower- 
panicle—of natural size; 3, culm-sheath—somewhat reduced. (No. 2 from С. Mann’s 
Garo Hills specimen, the rest from Kurz’ Burma specimens.) 
11. Cephalostachyum, Munro. 
Shrubby or arborescent bamboos. Culms rather thin, usually smooth, straight. 
Culm-sheaths usually thin, sometimes thick, more or less auricled. Leaves various in 
size, like those of Bambusa, more usually ovate, long-aeuminate. Inflorescence a terminal 
globose head or a panicle of heads with spreading branchlets, heads bracteate, the fertile 
flowers usually mixed with many imperfect ones or with empty glumes. Spikelets one- 
flowered, elongate, the rachilla produced beyond the flower. Empty. glumes 2 to 3, 
broad, chaffy, many-nerved, usually long-awned. Flowering glume similar, but more 
membranaceous and with shorter awns, convolute. Palea thin, many-nerved and onig 
transversely nerved, 2.keeled, keels close together, often 2-mucronate. Lodicules 5, 
` conspicuous, persistent, 3—5-nerved, often papillose. Stamens 6, anthers long, filaments 
distinct. Ovary ovoid, stalked, produced into a long thickened style, and divided at 
the top into 2 to 3 short plumose stigmas. Caryopsis oblong, glabrous, beaked; pericarp 
thickened, separable. à 
Diergrs.—Seven species, all from the North-East Himalaya, Assam and Burma, 
one only (C. pergracile) crossing the Bay of Bengal and re-appearing in Chota Nagpur. 
Analysis of the species. 
Spikelets in single terminal globose heads—Sxcrion I. 
Heads not more than 1:5 in. in diameter; leaves rather small. 
` Leaves moderately large, palea entire at the apex, anthers blunt . . 1. С. capitatum, 
Leaves small, palea bifid, anthers apiculate . . . . + • 2. C. pallidum. 
