120 ANNALS OF THE ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN, CALCUTTA. 
(Munro Monog., p. 3) and as it was again in flower, at any rate in Assam, in 1892, 
it may be taken that its period is about 30 years. Roxburgh obtained flowering and 
fruiting specimens from his friend Richard Pierard, but the year is not mentioned 
(Roxb, Cor. Pl. їп. 38; Fl, Ind, ii. 197). Kurz records its having flowered in the 
Calcutta Botanic Garden, but gives no date; that flowering may have been in 
1863 % 1866. Pierard, quoted by Roxburgh, says that it yields a large amount of 
tabasheer. It is locally known by the names Múli, metunga (Bengali); Тағай (Assamese); 
Wati (Cachari); Artem (Mikir); Turiah (Naga); Watrai (Garo); Kayoungwa (Magh) and 
is probably the Burmese Kayinwa. It is probably also the Pata (Bengali), Aworja 
(Chukma) of the list given at p. 130 of Major Lewin’s ‘Hill Tracts of Chittagong,’ 
Calcutta, 1869. Major Lewin says Ше culm is of the best description, that: white- 
ants do not touch it, that it flowered about four years ago (1865?) and that it 
is used for house walls, thatching and fancy  basket-work. Roxburgh gives the 
Chittagong name as Pagu-tulla. The fruits occasionally germinate on the culm, 
sometimes making 6 in. growth before they drop (Kurz in Jnd. Forester i. 268); some 
sent to Dehra Dun in 1892 germinated in the post and the plants are now 
growing well (1894). | 
Tas. No. 105.—Melocanna bambusoides, Trim. 1, leaf-branch with flowers showing 
stigmas; 2, part of flower-panicle—of natural size; 3, culm-sheath—reduced ; 4, spikelet; 
5, spikelet, opened to show lodicules, stamens and stigmas; 6, lodicule; 7, 
stamen—enlarged ; 8 & 9, caryopsis—reduced. (Nos. 1, 2, 5, 8, 9, from Kurz drawings 
in Calcutta Royal Botanic Garden Herbarium, the rest from Kurz’ specimens.) 
2. МЕГОСАХКА HUMILIS, Kurz Рог. Fl, Burma ii. 569. 
An evergreen, tufted bamboo. Cuims 8 to 15 feet high, about 1 in. in diameter, very 
hollow; nodes hardly thickened; internodes about 1 ft. long. Culm-sheaths glabrous (2), 
cylindric, very short, rounded and inflated at the sinuate, much-produced mouth; imperfect 
blade linear, subulate-acuminate, erect, decurrent into a. narrow, nude, green strip 
bordering the sinuses; ligule very narrow, entire. Leaves lanceolate to linear-lanceolate, 
obtuse at the base, on а petiole which is about 2 in. long; 4 to 6.in. long by 7 to 1 
in broad, very rough on one margin, glaucescent and minutely roughish pubescent 
beneath; secondary veins 8 to 10 pairs, very faint; leaf-sheaths glabrous, deciduously 
long-fringed at the minutely auricled mouth. Rest unknown (after Kurz). 
Upper mixed forests of Аттасап; Pazwoondoung valley near the village Wanet 
in Pegu. 
Very little is known of this species; but, from the specimens of leaves and sheaths 
collected by Kurz, it would seem to be a Melocanna. It is characterized by its small 
size, by the leaves being roughish-pubescent beneath, and by the imperfect blade of 
the culm-sheath being erect. It ought not to be difficult to rediscover, Kurz gives 
the Burmese name *Z'abendeinwa! оп his specimens, but this is usually identified as 
Bambusa villoesula. It is not clear how far this is connected with Меосаппа humilis, 
Roepert in Trinius Clav. Agr. 105; Ruprecht Bamb. 64; Munro in Trans, Linn. Soc. 
хху. 135, identified with Rumphius’ Arundarbor Cratium and described as being 15 to 
18 feet high with narrow lanceolate leaves, woolly beneath and bearing a wrinkled 
