INDIAN ВАМВОЗЕЖ; GAMBLE. 111 
to "6 in. long, with 1 to 2 small sterile flowers at the base; етріу glume ovate 
mucronate, short; flowering glume 74 in. long, glabrous except a few white hairs, 
convolute, coriaceous, shortly mucronate ; palea rather longer than the flowering glume, 
nearly glabrous, 2-keeled, keels rather faint and close together, shortly bi-mucronate. 
Lodicules lanceolate-acuminate, shortly ciliate, faintly 3-nerved. Stamens with narrow 
filaments ; anthers narrow, obtuse. Ovary stalked, ovate, glabrous, surmounted by a 
thickened style bearing 2—3 plumose purple stigmas. Caryopsis not known.  MELOCANNA 
VIRGATA, Munro in Trans. Linn, Soc. xxvi. 133. 
Upper Burma at Keouksik (Kyauksit) on the Mogaung river, collected only by 
Griffith (see Journal, page 89), No. 6732 of list. 
This species, clearly a CepAalostachyum, is distinguished from the two preceding by 
the heads bearing fewer flowers and being nearly glabrous, and by the much thicker 
rachis. It may be hoped that, as Upper Burma is gradually explored, better 
specimens may become available. 
Ртлте No. 97.—Cephalostachyum virgatum, Kurz. 1 & 2, flowering branches—of 
natural size ; 3, cluster of spikelets ; 4, spikelet; 5, empty glume; 6, flowering glume ; 
7, palea; 8, anthers, style and lodicules ; 9, lodicules ; 10, anther—en/arged. · (All from 
Griffiths No. 6732.) 
Sub-tribe 4.—MELOCANNEA. 
Stamens 6 only. 
Lodicules none; spikelets very small . . . . . . . . «© . o 12. Dinochloa, 
Lodicules 2 or more. 
Caryopsis small, with hard or crustaceous pericarp. . . . . 13. Schizostachyum. 
Caryopsis very large, with thick and fleshy pericarp . . . . 14. Мейсаппа. 
Stamens 6 or more, lodieules irregular in number, caryopsis large, with 
hick AOA SR ра tel ik e a ыты» 
thick fleshy pericarp . . 15. Ochlandra. 
12. Dinochloa, Biise. 
Lofty climbing bamboos, with zigzag culms. Culms moderately thick, zigzag, 
climbing, usually covered by the persistent sheaths. Culm-sheaths thick, loosely-clasping, 
wrinkled at the ‘base, where a broad leathery ring remains after the sheath falls; 
imperfect blade long. Leaves large, rather soft in texture, with transverse veinlets. 
Inflorescence а large compound panicle of thin spieate clusters of spikelets. Spikelets 
very minute, very numerous, in sub-globose sessile heads or short branchlets, 
1-flowered ; rachilla short, not articulate, not produced. Empty glumes 1 to 4, broad, 
very obtuse, muticous, gradually larger upwards. Flowering glume similar. Palea convolute, 
equal to, or larger than, the flowering glume, not keeled. Lodicules none. Stamens 6, 
free, short. Ovary ovate, glabrous; style short. Caryopsis ovoid, acuminate. 
Disrris.—T wo species; both Indo-Malayan. 
Analysis of the species. 
Culm-sheaths attenuate at the apex, leaves moderate-sized . . 1. D. Tyjankorreh. 
Culm-sheaths truncate at the apex, leaves ңе ае. % DB. Е 
