INDIAN BAMBUSEE ; GAMBLE. 105 
North-East Himalaya and Khasia, Jaintea and Naga Hills; occurring in Sikkim 
snd Bhutan at between 2,000 feet and 8,000 feet altitude, and at elevations the 
aame or rather lower in the Khasia Hills. In Sikkim it has been collected by Hooker 
and Thomson, T. Anderson, С. King and others; in the Khasia Hills by 
Wallich, Griffith, Hooker and Thomson, C. B. Clarke, &c, and in the Naga Hills 
by F. C. Colomb in 1886. ; 
This very pretty, graceful, small bamboo often forms dense thickets on the hill- 
sides, and appears to flower at very frequent intervals, as has been recorded by 
collections in Sikkim in 1848? (Hooker and Thomson); 1866 (T. Anderson); 1869 
(C. B. Clarke); 1874 (Gamble); 1878 (С. King); 1892 (С. A. Gammie) and in the 
Khasia Hills in 1830 and 1835 (Griffith); 1850 (Hooker and Thomson); 1871-79 
(C. B. Clarke) Perhaps the real reason is that, like Dendrocalamus strictus, it flowers 
sporadically and then, now and again, has years of wholesale seeding, as happened 
in my own observation in 1874, when large tracts in the Chel and Хеога valleys in 
British Bhutan covered with this species died off and became the scene of a great 
conflagration in the following year. It is known in Sikkim аз Софа, доре (Nepalese) 
and Payong (Lepcha); in Ше Khasia Hills as Аа and бийеа, I also refer, although 
doubtfully, to this species, the Serrah and Тегпар collected in leaf only by G. Mann 
in 1889-90 in the Jaintia Hills, though the culm-sheaths are longer and have longer 
imperfect blades, and in some respects more resemble Teinostachyum Dullooa, The wood 
is used by the Lepchas, in preference to that of other kinds, for making bows and 
arrows, and it is good for basket-work, The leaves ате used for fodder. | It is 
occasionally difficult to distinguish this, both from С. pallidum and from С. latifolium ; 
but the blunt anthers and uncleft mucronate palea are characteristic. 
Var. B decomposita; spikelets arranged in spicate almost paniculate clusters with 
many fertile spikelets. Collected by Т. Anderson and Kurz in Sikkim. 
Tas. 91.— Cephalostachyum capitatum, Munro. 1 & 2, leaf-branches with flower- 
heads—of natural size; 3 & 4, culm-sheaths—No. 3 from the upper part of the young 
culm, (Gamble), 4 from the lower (G. А. Gammie)—reduced ; 5, тонн with sterile 
m and bracts below; 6, empty glume; 7, flowering glume A palea; > lodicule ; 
10, stamens (young) and ovary with style; 11, caryopsis—enlarged (chiefly from my 
own specimens). 
9. (CEPHALOSTACHYUM PALLIDUM, Munro in Trans. Linn, Soc. xxvi. 139. 
A shrubby or small arboreous bamboo, with branches verticillate at the nodes, 
merous, Culms and culm-sheaths not known. Leaves pale green, ovate- 
онер moak си ually rounded at the base into a rather long ‘2 in. petiole which is 
lanceolate, сер a suddenly narrowed above into a scabrous subulate point ending 
Mi piii š а - 1 to 5 in. long and “5 to 1 in. broad ; glabrous on both sides or 
in а long hair- 4 ed w, rough on the edges which are somewhat cartilaginous; main 
minutely а num e а ins 4 to 6 pairs, intermediate 7, no transverse veinlets ; 
vein pale, pr id ate on the edges, ending in а short, rounded auricle furnished 
gre gen dy deciduous ciliz; ligule long, sometimes ciliate. Inflorescence a 
with а 
Ann. Вот, Bor. Garp. CALCUTTA, Vor, VIL. 
