110 ANNALS OF THE ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN, CALCUTTA. 
in diameter. Culm-sheaths rather short, 4 to 5 in. long by about 5 in. broad а! 
base, smooth or covered with appressed white or pale brown bristly hairs, ending in 
a triangular truncate top; imperfect blade long-ciliate on the margins, the edges convo- 
lute, 1 to 15 in., егесі, ovate, cordate, cuspidate, decurrent into a wavy fringe bordering 
the top of the sheath and ending on either side in a long pointed auricle, that 
on one side being bent downwards, that on the other upwards, both fringe and 
auricle edged with stiff curved bristles “1 to 2 in. long; ligule narrow, entire ог 
slightly toothed. Leaves small, linear, 3 to 6 in. long by 4 to ‘7 in. broad, con- 
tracted at the base into a very short petiole; acuminate above in а long slightly 
scabrous point; glabrous, except for a few long hairs beneath, scabrous on both edges; 
main vein narrow, secondary veins 4 to 6 pairs; intermediate 5 to 7, faint; leaf-sheaths 
smooth, glabrous, ending in a very narrow callus and produced at the sides into long, 
narrow, glabrous auricles which are furnished with а few short deciduous ciliz ; 
ligule narrow, inconspicuous. Inflorescence a leafy branching panicle of few verticillate 
branchlets, bearing heads of spikelets supported by a glabrous bract; rachis slender, 
glabrous, distance between spikelet clusters usually 2 to 2°5 in. Spikelets mostly fertile, 
linear, acuminate, hairy, “2 in. long with a few empty bract-like glumes or sterile 
spikelets between; empty glumes 1-2, ovate-lanceclate, mucronate, white-hairy, about 
7- to 9-nerved ; flowering glume similar ; palea as long as flowering glume, 2-keeled, 
the keels close together, white-pilose on the edges, the tip deeply bifidly mucronate. 
Lodicules oblong, about 2 in. long, obtuse, ciliate at the tip, 3- to 5-nerved, concave 
at the base. Stamens at first greenish, then turning yellow; anthers obtuse or acute. 
Ovary ovoid-acuminate, rounded, stipitate, smooth, ending in a long three-cornered 
style divided above into slightly white hairy stigmas. Caryopsis not known. MELOCANNA 
LUTESCENS, Kurz in Journ As. Soc. Beng. xli. 300. к | 
Burma ?: exact country not known, but said by Kurz to have been introduced from 
Pegu into the Royal Botanie Gardens, Caleutta. Cultivated also in the Agri-Horticul- 
tural Societys Garden in Madras, and perhaps elsewhere. Specimens of a bamboo 
planted near the Kaulagarh Canal, Dehra Dún, resemble this; but the leaves and leaf 
sheaths are more hairy and the culm-sheaths have more rounded auricles, | 
This species is distinguished from С. pergracile by the pointed culm-sheath auricles 
which are directed one upwards, the other down, by the smaller leaves and by the 
inflorescence having smaller heads, thicker rachis, and bearing leaves. The spikelets 
do not differ much. 
PrarE No. 96.—Cephalostachyum flavescens, Kurz. 1, leaf-branch ; 2 & 3, flowering 
branches; 4, young shoot; 5, culm-sheath—about natural size; 6, spikelet; 7, empty 
glume; 8, реа; 9, lodicule; 10, anther; 11, ovary with style and stigmas—endarged. 
(All from Kurz specimens.) | 
7. CEPHALOSTACHYUM VIRGATUM, Kurz For. Fl. Burma ii. 565. 
А sub-arboreous bamboo ; culm, culm-sheaths and leaves unknown. Inflorescence a large, 
leafless, drooping panicle, bearing on fasciculate branchlets distant lax heads, consisting 
of rather few, nearly glabrous, spikelets, supported by a narrow chaffy bract, the fertile 
spikelets mixed with sterile ones or empty glumes; rachis smooth, flattened on one 
side, the distance between the heads gradually decreasing. Spikelets narrow, acute, "5 
