106 ANNALS OF THE ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN, CALCUTTA. 
pale terminal head about 1 in. in diameter, supported by a leaf and broad, rounded, 
glabrous, sheath-like bracts, and consisting of many long aristate empty glumes or 
sterile spikelets, with few exserted fertile spikelets. Spikelets *T to "8 in. long; empty 
glumes sessile, or with few empty bractlets at the base, “5 to "6 in. long, ovate, 
concave and ending in a long, usually 2 in., scabrous awn, many-nerved, sometimes 
pubescent on the back below the awn; flowering glume similar but with а shorter awn; 
palea as long as the flowering glume, thinner in texture, many-nerved, with both 
longitudinal and transverse veins, 2-keeled, the keels close together, bifid-mucronate at 
apex, hairy below the keels and at the tip, rachilla produced, short. Lodicules about *15 
long, lanceolate or spathulate-lanceolate, 3—5-nerved, minutely papillose, pubescent, ciliate 
at the tip. Stamens exserted, filaments long ; anthers long-apiculate. Ovary ovoid- 
lanceolate, extended into a long conical style with 2 hairy short stigmas. f Car yopsis 
chestnut brown, glabrous, ovoid-globose, conical above and wrinkled, ending in а beak 
formed by the persistent base of the style and supported by the persistent glumes 
and lodicules.. Kurz For. РІ. Burma ii. 563. 
Khasia Hills, Mishmi Hills, Patkaye Range and Manipur, ascending to 5,000 ft. 
Collected by Griffith (Nos. 6733, 6718), C. B. Clarke and G. Mann. | | 
This graceful species is distinguished with some difficulty from С. capitalum; but it 
has much smaller leaves, longer ligules, a bifid palea and apiculate anthers. ‘The culms 
and culm-sheaths have unfortunately not been described. It was gathered in flower by 
Griffith in 1835, by C. B. Clarke in 1872 and 1885-86, and by G. Mann in 1878. 
Munro says that this is called Вейе bans; but the bamboo more commonly known as 
Betee ог Већћ is Teinostachyum Grifithii, Munro. Griffith’s specimens were found on the 
summit of the Patkaye Range, and on its southern side, on his journey from Naga to 
Hookoom (Griff. Journ. 64). 
Ррате No. 92.—Cephalostachyum pallidum, Munro. 1 & 2, leaf- and flower-branches— 
of natural size; 3, spikelet; 4, empty glume; 5, flowering glume; 6, palea with stamens 
and style; 7, lodicule; 8, anther; 9, ovary with style and stigmas; 10, caryopsis—enlarged 
(from C. B. Clarke’s specimens). 
9. CEPHALOSTACHYUM LATIFOLIUM, Munro in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxvi. 140. 
A shrubby, semi-scandent bamboo. Culms thin, dark green, rough, whitish below 
the nodes, which are marked by a conspicuous ring. Culm-sheaths thin, papery, straw- 
coloured, 6 to 9 in. long, 2 to 3 in. broad, sides parallel, top rounded and ending in 
a concave sinus 7 in. in diameter, with rather sharp, triangular, glabrous: auricles; 
imperfect blade 4 to 5 in. long, 3 to *5 in. broad, subulate, acuminate; ligule broad, Leaves 
very large, ovate or ovatelanceolate, unequal at the base; we ge-shaped or rounded 
into a thick 3 to ‘4 in. wrinkled petiole; ending above in a scabrous, setaceous tip; 
10 to 16 in. long, 1 to 4 in. broad; main, vein prominent, pale, secondary veins 8 to 
18 pairs, conspicuous, intermediate 7 to 10, no regular transverse veinlets, but, distant 
pellucid dots which give sometimes the appearance of transverse уешев on the 
underside; Jeaf-sheaths striate, ciliate on the edges, ending in а broad, thick, 
emarginate callus, and produced beyond it to meet the broad ligule, which is again 
long produced and often up to 2 in. or more. Inflorescence a thick, terminal 
globular head, often 2 in. in diameter, composed of clusters of Spikelets, some 
