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fertile, some sterile, supported by broad, striate, keeled, aristate bracteoles. Spikelets 
1-flowered, acuminate, long-aristate, “6 to "9 in. long; empty glumes `6 in. long, ovate- 
lanceolate, long awned, glabrous except the scabrous awn, striate, somewhat keeled; 
Jiowering glume similar but lanceolate-acuminate, and with a shorter awn and transverse 
veinlets; palea membranous, both longitudinally and transversely veined, ending in a blunt 
hairy point, convolute; ғас Йа produced, short. Lodicules ovate-lanceolate or spathulate, 
ciliate, 3-nerved, 2 in. long, minutely papillose-pubescent. Stamens exserted, filaments long, 
anthers bluntly mucronate, Ovary ovoid, surmounted by a long style which is flattened 
above and finally divided into two short plumose stigmas. Caryopsis chestnut brown, 
shining, broadly ovoid, stalked, "3 in. long, "15 in. broad, curved above, ending in a 
beak formed by the persistent base of the style, and supported by the persistent 
glumes and lodicules; pericarp crustaceous. 
North-East Himalaya in British Bhutan, up to 5,000 feet; also in Manipur at 7,000 
feet. Collected by Griffith (1835); by myself (1879) at Dumsong in British Bhutan; and 
by G. Watt in Manipur in 1882. 
This species is at once distinguished from С. capilatum by the large broad leaves 
and long ligules; and from C. Fuchsianum by the absence of ciliated fringes to the 
leaf-sheaths and by the undivided райға. The specimens of leaves and culm-sheaths 
sent from Upper Burma by J. W. Oliver under the name of Gyawa (Burmese), 
Laka (Kachin), resemble this, but the ligules are much smaller and the culm-sheaths 
are ciliate at the top. 
Puate No. 93.—Cephalostachyum latifolium, Munro. 1, leaf- and flower-branch—of 
natural size; 2, culm-sheath—reduced ; 3, cluster of spikelets, mostly sterile; 4, empty 
glume; 5, flowering glume; 6, palea; 7, lodicule; 8, anther; 9, ovary with style 
and stigmas; 10, same when older supported by persistent lodicules; 11, caryopsis— 
enlarged (No. 2 from my own, rest from Griffith’s specimens.) 
_ 4, CEPHALOSTACHYUM FUCHSIANUM, п. 8р. Gambie. 
A medium-sized, arborescent, semi-scandent bamboo.  Culms small, soft, thin-walled, 
pale, verticillately branched from the nodes.  Culm-sheaths thin, striate and reticulately 
veined at the edges, sides nearly parallel, rounded at the top on each side into a deep 
(often 1 in. deep and “5 m. broad at bottom) concave long bristly-fringed sinus, 12 in. 
ong by 4 in. broad, clothed on the back with appressed light brown pubescence ; 
imperfect blade inserted at the base of the sinus, reflexed, subulate, 6 to 8 in. long, "7 to 
8 in. broad, closely pubescent below; ligule small; younger sheaths cylindrical, the 
mouth furnished with rows of long, white, stiff, bent bristles. Leaves large, ovate-lanceolate, 
angled or rounded at the base rather abruptly into а 5 to 6 im long, thick petiole ; 
cuspidately acuminate with a scabrous, twisted point ; glabrous on both sides, scabrous on 
the edges; 8 to 14 in. long, 2 to 4 in. broad ; main vein prominent, shining, secondary 
veins 7 to 10 pairs, intermediate 8 to 10, pellucid glands giving the appearance of 
transverse veinlets when dry; /eaf-sheath soft, dark green, striate, thickly long-ciliste on ч» 
edges, ending in а rounded calus and produced at the top into an elongated auricle 
thickly clothed with thick, white, stiff bristles which are often “6 to 1. ш, long ; ligule 
moderately long, ciliate. Inflorescence a dense, globular, terminal head, 2:5 in. in diameter, 
or else an elongated, densely packed, terminal, congested spike of superposed heads, 
Ann. Roy. Bor. Garp. CALCUTTA, Vor. VII. 
