1234 BENGAL PLANTS. [Oxytenanthera. 
mucronate ; palea of lower flowers 2-keeled, of uppermost convo- 
lute, with keel obscure or obsolete ; lodicules obsolete ; stamens 6; 
filaments gonnate in an ultimately « elongated, membranous tube ; 
ena 
ovary ovoid; style slender ; stigmas 1-8, more or less plumose. 
Grain elongated, beaked, smooth. 
Stem-sheaths 10-12 in. long, by 9-10 in. wide auriculata. 
Stem-sheaths 6 in. long and broad nigro-ciliata. 
2731. OxyTENANTHERA AURICULATA Prain. Bambusa auriculata 
F. B. I. vii. 896. Gigantochloa auriculata EK. D. G. 211. 
ee ng. 
An evergreen bamboo ; stems 40-50 feet high. 
2732. OXYTENANTHERA NIGRO-cILIATA Munro; F. B. I. vii. 401; 
. O. 610. 
‘Citas ; Chittagong. 
An evergreen bamboo ; stems 30-40 feet high. 
1119. Dendrocalamus Nees. 
Trees, unarmed ; rootstocks densely branching; leaves shortly 
petioled, transverse nervules replaced by pellucid glands. Sptke- 
lets in globose clusters on the long branches of a compound 
panicle, ovate, 2-6-flowered. Hmpty glumes 2-3, ovate, acute, 
many-nerved; flowering glumes like the empty; palea of lower 
owers keeled, of upper dorsally rounded, eciliate ; lodicules rare; 
stamens 6; filaments free; ovary hairy above, often depressed ; 
stigma usually simple. Grain small; pericarp coriaceous oF 
crustaceous. 
Stem-sheaths with a narrow ligule; spikelets crowded, hard, spinescent, 
in spicate heads :— 
Spikelets soareely - : — fe argues _ strictus. 
a EE Siu: : 
Stem-sheaths with a nee serrate, anc often fimbriate gles _ spikelets 
few, in aa heads, many of them steril ongispathus. 
2733. DeNDROCALAMUS stTRIcTUS Nees; F. B. I. vii. 404; E. D. 
D Bambusa stricta F. - a. 4 
Behar ; Chota Nagpur; Oris 
A close-set bamboo ; stems ajo feet high, often solid. ’ 
Hind. Bans kaban, bans khurd, kopar; Beng. Karail; 
Kol. tenets , burumat; Santal. Burumat. 
