Oxytenanthera] CXII. GRAMIXEiE 675 



southwards. Karnul hills. Gregarious, straggling or climbing, culms 10-15 ft. 

 long, branched from the base, branehlets whor led, ending in pliant whips with whorls 

 of -mall branehlets and very small 1.. internodes 1'2-lS in. long. diam. 1 in., walls thin. 

 Culm-sheaths i or J the length of iutemode. at the apex with large falcate auricles, 

 which are thickly set with long stiff curved bristles, 1. 4-12 by J-IJ in., u. 18-36 on 

 i in., leaf-sheaths with bristles at the mouth while young. Panicle huge, often leafy, 

 spikelets \-\ in. long, usually 1-rld., anthers loug-apiculate, style hairy, stigmas 3. 

 short, plumose. 7. 0. Bourdiiloni, Gamble, t. 67. Vera. Kambu, Tarn. ; Aranwu, Mai. 

 Travancore ghats, 3-1,000 ft., rare, found only ou rocky cliffs. Tufts loose, not compact, 

 culms 20-30 ft. high, internodes 3 ft. long, walls thin, culm-sheaths 6-12 in., blade 

 triangular, sharply mucronate. L. thin, 6-9 by 1-1A in., n. 18 on J in., ligule long, 

 serrate. Heads lj in. diam. in long spikes, spikelets polished, j in. long, mucronate, 

 3-fld., ovary hairj', stvle hairy, stigmas 3. Fl. at long intervals, Travancore in 

 1887. 



7. PSEUDOSTACHYUM, Munro ; Fl. Brit. Ind. vii. 409. 



P. polymorphum, Munro, the only species; Gamble, t. 85. Vern. 

 Filing. Nep. ; Bajdl, Basal, Nal, Tolli, Ass. ; Wachall, Garo ; Baica, 

 Baukwa, Burm. ; Wana, Kachin. 



Single-stemmed, culms 25-50 ft., overhanging, often supported by neigh- 

 bouring trees, lower part branchless, internodes 8-15 in. long, 1-2 in. diam., 

 walls thin. Culm-sheaths loose, much shorter than internodes, blade early 

 deciduous, ribbed and often with transverse veins, lanceolate or triangular, 

 often longer than sheath. L. thin, 6-15 by 1-2 in. usually glabrous, 

 sometimes fine hairs on the underside, pet. varying in length up to J in., 

 n. 18-22 on ^ in., transverse veins conspicuous, often bent, where they cross 

 the band of silica cells. Flowers frequently, in most cases fl. deformed and 

 sterile, usually appearing as large round masses of hairy glumes. Spikelets 

 solitary, i in. long, in the axils of narrow bracts ou the slender branches of 

 a large leaf}- panicle. One fertile fl., palea convolute 2-keeled, keels not 

 ciliate, lodicules large, ciliate, anthers apiculate. Caryopsis depressed- 

 globose, surmounted by the base of style and supported by the persistent 

 glumes, palea and lodicules. 



Sikkim and Bhutan, from the foot of the hills to 5,000 ft. Garo hills. Assam. 

 Manipiir. Muister districts nf Upper Burma. 



8. DENDROCALAMUS, Nees; Fl. Brit. Ind. vii. 403. 



Tall unarmed Mambons. in dense clumps. Culm-sheaths often very large. 

 L. mostly large, n. 20-30 on \ in., usually 21 or 25 (membranaa us 30-40 . 

 transverse veins, if not obscured by hairs, more or less visible in dry leaves 

 ou the underside. Spikelets ovate, fl. few, rarely more than 6, usually bi- 

 sexual. Glumes many-nerved, empty 2—3. Palesa of lower fl. 2-kei 

 ciliate, only those of the terminal fl. rounded on the back and not keeled. 

 Lodicules as a rule none, sometimes 1-2 in D. patellaris, Brandisii, and 

 flagellifer. Stamens 6, filaments free. Ovary hairy in the upper part, style 

 Imiilc hairy, undivided, in a few species 2-3-fid. at the apex. Seed enclosed in 

 a hanl crustaoeous pericarp. Sp.cics L6, South-Eastern Asia. 



A. Spikelets numerous, spinesoeut. in dense, usually globose heads, mollis 

 of spike solid or nearly so. 



1. D. strictus, Nees; Bedd. PI. Sylv. t. 326; Brandis 1". PI. t. 70, 

 Gamble, t. 68, 69. Malt Bamboo. Vern. Bans, Hind.: Karail, Beng. ; 

 llal/ia, WadUr, Gond. ; Indo, Knrku; Maun;/, Bundi, Thana; Sanna 

 Pedum, Kanka Veduru, Tel.: Kib-Bidaru, Kan.: Kal-Mungil, Tarn.; 

 Mi/iiiira, Burm. 



Middle-si.. I. deciduous, culms greyishrgreen, often blotched, closely packed 

 in dense clumps, the Lower portion with short Btiff spreading generally leaf- 

 less brunches, one of which is much larger than the others, tle.se on the upper 

 portion slender, and leafy, [nternodes L0-16 in. long, 2-3 in. diam.. in drv 



