112 ANNALS OF THE ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN, CALCUTTA. 
1. DINocHLoA Тулхковвен, Визе in Ми. Pl. той. 388. 
An evergreen, lofty, scandent bamboo. Culms up to 100 ft. long, 1 in. ог 
more in diameter, zigzag-geniculate, green, glossy; nodes swollen, marked by Ше coria- 
ceous, persistent bases of the fallen sheaths, those of branches often thorny; internodes 
9 to 18 in. long, hairy in the upper part, walls thin; cwulm-sheaths loose, cylin- 
drical, gradually attenuate towards the mouth which is not auricled, sprinkled with minute 
white fugacious bristles, base leathery and persistent, upper margins somewhat waved; 
imperfect blade ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, spreading or erect, minutely hispid above; ligule 
rather broad, entire or slightly toothed. Leaves moderately large, 6 to 10 in. long, 1 to 
15 in, broad, rather soft, lanceolate, acuminate, attenuate at the base into a very short 
hairy petiole; point setaceous, slightly rough; smooth on both surfaces, slightly scabrous on 
the edges; main vein conspicuous, secondary veins 7 to 9 pairs, transverse veinlets conspicu- 
ous owing to pellucid glands; /eaf-sheaths glabrous when old, appressed-hairy when young, 
striate, ending in a callus and a rounded mouth with long white stiff ciliæ; ligule rather 
broad, truncate, long-ciliate. Jnjlorescence a large compound panicle of spicate, thin, wiry 
branches; the rachis curved, smooth, striate, flattened on one side, marked at the nodes 
by a ring formed by the bases of fallen bracts; clusters very small, with few fertile 
spikelets and many empty glumes. Spikelets very small, at most *1 in. long, ovate, glossy, 
brown, glabrous, one-flowered; empty glumes 1 with 1 or 2 smaller at the base below 
the articulation, broad, obtuse, convolute, muticous, 5- to 7-nerved; flowering glume 
similar to empty glume; рака rounded, much convolute. Stamens included, filaments 
short, anthers with an acute tip. Ovary ovate, ending in a thick style, and bifid 
non-plumose stigma. Caryopsis ovoid, shortly beaked, '1 to “2 in. long, fleshy. Му. Fl. 
Ind. Bat, ш. 415; Munro in raus. Linn. Кос. xxvi. 158, Pl. V; Kurz in Ind. 
Forester 1. 352. BAMBUSA SCANDENS, Blume, ex Nees in Flora vii. (1824) 291. Nasrus 
TJANGKORREH, Schultes Syst. Veg. vii. 1358; Kunth Enum. 1. 430; Steudel Syn. 333. 
CHUSQUEA AMPLOPANICULATA, Steud. Syn. 337; Mig. Fl. Ind. Bat. ii. 415. 
Malay Peninsula: collected at Larut in Perak by Н. W. Ridley in 1892 (No. 
3112), Extending to Java, Borneo and throughout the Moluccas. 
Var. andamanica.—Spikelets straw-coloured; leaves rather larger, up to 12 in. 
long and 2 in. broad, softer, ovate-lanceolate, their sheaths more ciliate 
at the mouth and with a more fimbriate ligule. DINOCHLOA ANDAMANICA, 
Kurz in Journ. As. 0с. Beng. xlii. (1873), ii. 253; Kurz For. Fi. 
Вигта 1. 570. ае 
Andaman and Nicobar Islands: collected in the Mount Harriet tropical forests, 
S. Andaman, by Kurz, 1875; by Sieber in 1858; by A. L. Home in 1874; in the 
Nicobar Islands by Kurz in 1875; and by Jelinek (Austrian ‘Novara’? Expedition), 
- (No. 259). ! 
This eurious and very widespread coast species has the smallest flowers of any Indian 
species of bamboo yet known. Kurz, in his ‘Report on the vegetation of the Andaman 
Islands’, Calcutta, 1870, p. 75, says, “forming nearly half of the whole scandent vege- 
"tation in these jungles, and rendering many places nearly impenetrable.” In that 
