Teinostachyum.] GRAMINE 4. 1235 
2734. DeENDROCALAMUS SERICEUS Munro; F. B. I. vii. 404; E. D. 
end 
Chota Nagpur, Parasnath. 
A close-set bamboo ; stems 20-50 feet high. 
2735. DENDROCALAMUS LONGISPATHUS Kure. Bile vi AGT 
B. De Bs Ses 
Chittag 
A tithe ‘feats leafy above only ; stems 60 feet. 
1120. Melocalamus Benth. 
Shrubby ; stems semi-scandent from a stout rootstock ; stem- 
sheaths hard, cylindric, auricled ; leaves large, petioled, transverse 
nervules 0. Spikelets in dense heads, very small, in large panicles ; 
a 
free ; anthers obtuse ; ova ary anes : pain short; stigmas 2-3, 
plumose. Grain very large, depressed-globose ; pericarp tough; 
seed large, fleshy. 
2736. MetocaLamus compactirLorus Benth. ; F. B. I. vii. 409. 
Fippera ee 
A andent reas stems 25-100 feet long, 
spneatins aa arching over tall trees. 
1121. Teinostachyum Munro. 
Shrubs or small trees; stems thin, arching; stem-sheaths 
usually thin; Jeaves variable. Spikelets in bracteate whorls, 
glumes 1-2, mucronate; flowering glumes similar, with longer 
mucros ; palea sverpauidee its keels ciliate; lodicules 3, 8-9-nerved; 
stamens 6; filaments free, slender; anthers obtuse or obtusely 
apiculate; ovary ovoid or depressed-globose; apex P uced, 
enclosing the style; stigmas 2-3, plumose. Grain ovoid, acumi- 
nate, beaked; pericarp crustaceous. 
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