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glaucescent beneath; main vein conspieuous, secondary veins 7 to 13 pairs, intermediate 
usually 5, transverse veinlets few, oblique; leaf-sheaths glabrous, faintly striate, ending 
in a small ciliate callus and auricled at the mouth with a few long white cilia which 
are early caducous; ligule very narrow, entire. Jnjlorescence а large panicle with verticels 
of long, drooping, filiform spikes, bearing distant broad heads of spikelets supported by 
small chaffy sheathy bracts; the rachis very slender, wiry, thickened above, and 1:5 
to 2 in. between the clusters. Spikelets in bracteate clusters, "5 to "7 in. long, no 
regular етріу glumes, but 1 to 9 sterile flowers, then a fertile flower, then a terminal 
sterile flower or filiform produced  rachilla; Jlowering glume *5 to 7 in. long, ovate- 
lanceolate, many-nerved, densely pale-hairy, long-mucronate; palea as long as flowering 
glume, 2-keeled, the keels close together, ciliate, apex deeply bifidly mucronate, 
Lodicules narrow, about "2 in. long, lanceolate, somewhat obtuse and ciliate at tip, 3- 
to 5-пегуед, concave at the base and persistent. Stamens with narrow filaments; anthers 
purple, obtuse. Ovary smooth, sub-globular at the base and prolonged above into a 
3-cornered style ending in Я to З stout recurved stigmas. ^ Caryopsis obovate-oblong, 
shining, “5 in. long, ending in a straight beak also about #5 in. long and somewhat 
compressed, grooved on one side. Kurz For. Fl. Burma ii. 564. 
Throughout Burma, where it is common in upper mixed forests and often grega- 
riously forming forests by itself. Collected in flower by Brandis in 1862 and 1880, 
To this species I refer the bamboo collected by myself in 1881 at Luia in the Kolhan 
forests, Singhbhém district, Chota Nagpur; also the Гато (Naga) bamboo collected by 
G. Mann in the Sibsagar district of Assam, but from planted specimens; and the 
Madang (Singpho) collected in 1890 by Kripa Nath Dé in Lakhimpur, Assam. Mann 
says, however, that it is wild, growing in clumps on the lower Naga Hills, and that 
it is used by the Nagas for basket-work. The Burmese name is Тоа. 
This beautiful species is probably the most common of all Burmese bamboos except 
Dendrocalamus strictus; and, as I am informed by J. W. Oliver, it may be found almost 
any year flowering sporadically like Dendrocalamus strictus and — Hamiltonii, but not 
generally producing good seed on such occasions. The Kolhan and Assam localities 
would point to its having a wider range than is generally supposed. The culms are 
largely used for building and mat-making and other purposes, and in Burma the joints 
are used for boiling kauknyin or glutinous rice, the effect being to make a long 
mould of boiled rice which can be carried about to be eaten on journeys. It is at 
once recognized by the characteristie inflorescence, the short sheaths with rounded, long. 
fringed auricles, and long bifidly-mucronate palea. 
Prate No. 95.— Cephalostachyum pergracile, Munro. ; 
panicle—of natural size; 3, culm-sheath—slightly reduced; 4, cluster of omer: : 5, вечен 
cluster; 6, spikelet open, showing sterile flower, flowering glume, pcr 42 uced 
rachilla with rudimentary flower; 7, palea; 8, stamens and beue 9, lodieule; 10, 
anther; 11, ovary and persistent lodicules; 12, caryopsis (young ?;—enlarged (all from 
Brandis’s Burma specimens ) 
1, leaf-branch; 2, part of flower- 
6. CEPHALOSTACHYUM FLAVESCENS, Kurz For. Fl. Burma ii. 564. 
An evergreen, tufted, semi-arborescent bamboo. Culms dull green, turning yellow, 
10 to 20 ft. high, smooth; nodes not prominent; internodes rather long, 1 to 15 im. 
