182 ANNALS OF THE ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN, CALCUTTA. 
rounded at the base into a short petiole, long acuminate, glabrous but rather rough 
above, minutely pubescent near the base beneath; rough on the margins, 7 to 10 іп: 
long by 12 to 3 in. broad; main vein prominent; secondary veins 6 to 9 pairs, rather 
conspicuous, intérmediate 8 to 9; transverse veinlets frequent, not conspicuous; leaf-sheaths 
striate, glabrous or hairy between the lines with longish hairs ending in an emarginate 
callus and produced somewhat at the sides beyond the ligule, ciliate on the margins: 
ligule obtuse, truncate, rarely fimbriate. Inflorescence a large compound reddish-purple 
panicle, bearing spikelets in clusters of 3 to 6, or 1 only on uppermost parts, on spicate 
branchlets, uppermost spikelets followed by leaf-like bracts 1 to 15 in, long; rachis 
softly hairy, 4 to ‘7 in. long, flattened on one side and white-ringed above: Spikelets 
ovate-oblong, "6 to '8 in. long, :3 to “4 in. broad, flattened conspicuously, pubescent? 
empty glumes 2, short, broad, acute, "2 та. long, ciliate on the edges, many-veined; then 
6 to 8 flowers, of which the lowest and uppermost are sometimes sterile; flowering glume 
broadly ovate at the base, about half way up narrowed to a rather blunt point, 4 in. 
long, dark-coloured and ciliate on the edges, pubescent on the back, many-veined and 
transversely veined; palea a little shorter than the flowering glume, narrow, 2-keeled, 
ciliate on the keels, acute and often bifid at the tip, 3-уетед on the back. Stamens long 
exserted, anthers pale, ending in a hairy muero. Ovary ovate from а broad Базе, 
pubescent, surm ounted by a long hairy style ending in 1 to 2 short purple stigmas. 
Caryopsis not known. BAMBUSA vERTICILLATa, Benth. in Fl. Hongk. 434, fide Munro. 
Southern Shan States, Upper Burma, collected by Dr. G. King’s collectors at 
Laikaw in 1894. Also by J. W. Oliver in a garden at Maymyo Fort near Mandalay 
in 1895. Also in China and Formosa. 
Neither in Munro’s monograph nor in the Hongkong Flora are the indications of 
the size of this species at all satisfactory. To judge by the inflorescence and the analogy 
of its neighbours D. giganteus and D. calosíachyus, and from J, W. Oliver's notes, it 
has every probability of being a very large kind, though not nearly so large as D. 
giganteus, Bentham says it is planted by the Chinese in China and probably also in 
Hongkong. At Maymyo it is called Wa-ni, Burm. (the red bamboo) from its conspi- 
cuously reddish flowers. He thiuks that the Maymyo plants were introduced from China 
as the Fort was built by the Chinese. It should come in the Analysis after No. 9— 
* Spikelets reddish, long, ovate-oblong, flattened.” | 
PrarE No. 117.—Dendrocalamus latiflorus, Munro. 1, part of leaf branch; 2, 3, 
parts of inflorescence; 4, spikelet; 5, 6, one flower with and without flowering glume, 
showing palea, stamens and ovary—of natural size; 7, empty glume; 8, flowering glume; 
9, ovary with style and Vm met ged. (All but 7 and 8 from Fitch’s Plate in 
Munro’s Monograph.) 
On page 110, Cephalostachyum virgatum, Kurz, line 1, for “а, sub-arboreous bamboo; 
culms, culm-sheaths and leaves unknown” substitute the following :— 
“А medium-sized slender tufted bamboo. Culms dark-green, erect, covered with 
whitish scurfy down when young, up to 4 in. in diameter; nodes not thickened; inter- 
nodes 18 to 24 in. long, regular, walls thin. Culm-sheaths much shorter than the inter- 
nodes, 6 to 8 in. long, 7 to 10 in. broad at base, pale, covered with stiff appressed 
golden hairs, eurvedly attenuate upwards to a horizontal or slightly depressed top 4 to 
9 in. broad; imperfect blade 4 to 5 in. long, usually recurved, cordate at base, where 
1 to 15 in. broad, euspidately narrowed to a sharp point, margins incurved, glabrous 
