INDIAN ВАМВОЗЕЖ; GAMBLE. 131 
about 14 in. long, branches many from the base upwards.  Culn-sheaths thin, pale, 
8 to 10 in. long, 4 to 5 in. broad, striate, attenuated upwards into a rounded top 
2 to 3 in. broad; glabrous on both sides, or only slightly hirsute on the back when 
young; iperfect blade triangular-lanceolate, cordate at the base, 4 to 8 in. long, 2 to 3 
in. broad, both sides covered with scattered stiff brown hairs; produced at the base into 
short long-fringed auricles, that on one side rounded about *1 to "3 in. long, that on the 
other decurrent, often 1 in. long; ligule about "1 in. broad, serrate. Leaves small, linear, 
thin, 4 to 7 in. long, *4 to “б in. broad; attenuated or rounded or sometimes abruptly 
rounded at the base into a 71 to "15 in. long petiole, ending above in a long twisted 
needle-like point, glabrous on both surfaces, minutely scabrous on the edges; main vein 
pale, secondary veins 4 to 5 pairs, faint, intermediate 7; Jeaf-sheaths glabrous, striate, 
ending in an emarginate callus and slightly produced at the edges to meet the rather 
long ligule. Inflorescence a much-branched panicle of drooping one-sided spikes with 
rather distant bracteate clusters of few (1 to 3) spikelets; bracts glabrous, striate, 
truncate; spikelets flattened, “д to “6 in. long, straw-coloured or greenish, glabrous; empty 
glumes 1 to 2, ovate-lanceolate, veined; then 3 to 4 distichous fertile flowers separated 
by conspicuous rachille; terminal flower imperfect on a long flattened glabrous гаса, 
‚ flowering glume ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, 9-nerved; palea rather shorter, 2-keeled, acute, 
glabrous, except for a minute tuft of hairs at the apex, 3-nerved between, 3-nerved on 
either side of the keels. Lodicules 3, rounded, obtuse, long-fimbriate, many-nerved. 
Stamens long—exsert, anthers striped red and yellow at first, afterwards dull purple, 
obtuse. Ovary ovate, elongate, hairy; séy/e short, soon dividing into 2 plumose stigmas. 
Caryopsis ovate, °З in. long, furrowed on one side, slightly hairy at top. 
Upper Burma; found by J. W. Oliver about 30 miles north of Mandalay at from 
1,000 to 2,000 ft., 1893-94; also sent by Mr. C, S. Rogers from the Ruby Mines Hills. 
This must be a very pretty graceful species. J. W. Oliver writes :—* һе bamboo 
“18 called locally Wapyusan. It is found in fairly moist deciduous forest. It grows in 
“ patches, generally occupying dry ravines. Тһе flowering appears to be general, and 
« the ground and undergrowth near the flowering patches were covered with a dense 
“ layer of pollen dust." The striped anthers are very characteristic even in dry speci- 
mens. It belongs to section П, between Nos. 12 and 13—“ Fertile flowers 3 to 4. 
« Anthers obtuse, keel of palea not ciliate.” Large quantities of the seed have been collect- 
ed and distributed, so the species is likely soon to be well known. The absence of 
cili» to the keels of the palea and the small leaves ally it to В. polymorpha, but the 
one-sided spikes and the quite different culm-sheaths distinguish it at once. 
Рілте No. 116.—Bambusa Oliveriana, Gamble. 1, leaf-branch; 2, part of flower 
panicle ; 3, culm-sheath—of natural size ; 4, spikelet with bract ; 5, spikelet ; 6, flowering 
glume ; 7, palea; 8, lodicule; 9, anther ; 10 ovary, with style and stigmas ; 11, caryop- 
sis; 12, germinating seed—enlarged. (All from J. W. Oliver's specimens.) 
DENDROCALAMUS LATIFLORUS, Munro in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxvi. 152, Tab. vi. 
A very large bamboo. Culms tall, 5 in. in diameter, cavity large; internodes short, 
striate, glabrous. Culm-sheaths similar to those of D. giganteus, 10 to 12 in. long by 
about the same in breadth, dark brown when dry and old, thinly covered with black 
appressed stiff hairs; ligule :2 in. long, dentate. eaves broadly oblong-lanceolate, 
