Dendrocalamus] CXII. GKAMIXE.E 679 



lets. Spikelets J-f in. long, softly pubescent. "Sot seen. 16. Wabo, Burni. Culti- 

 vated in villages, Southern Shan States, 1,500-2,000 ft. (Montague Hill), Culm-she 

 18 in. long, thick, hard, shining within, thinly hairy outside, 1. thin, grey. 6-9 by 

 1-1J in., scabrid on both surfaces, u. 20-24 on J in., petiole very short, sheath glabrous, 

 edges ciliate. Heads of 10-20 spikelets, approximate, nearly confluent, spikelets 

 J-f in. long, nearly glabrous, tip hard, pungent, fl. 2-3, { , 9 , and bisexual. Palea 

 long-ciliate at keels, between keels 2-5 n., ovary and si J le densely hairy. 



9. TEINOSTACHYUM, Munro: PI. Brit. lud. vii. 410. 



Culms thin, overhanging, sometimes climbing. Spikelets up to 3 in. long, 

 slender, many-fld., sometimes pedunculate, in bracteate whorls on the spici- 

 form branches of a leafy panicle, upper and lower fl. imperfect, rachilla 

 elongate between the fl., glumes mucronate, palea convolute, keeled, keels 

 ciliate near the apex. Lodicules 3, 3-9-nerved. Style enclosed in and partly 

 adnate to a cylindric sheath. Caryopsis ovoid, beaked, pericarp crnstaceous. 

 Species 5, of which one in Ceylon. 



1. T. Wightii, Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 323 : Gamble, t. 87. Vern. Nanyura, Tarn. Western 

 Ghats from North Kanara southwards. 3-5,000 ft. Nilgiris, Anamalais, in the under- 

 growth of high tree forest. Culms 10-20 ft. long, supported by the neighbouring 

 - Bexuose, internodes 14-18 in. long, diam. 1-1J, walls thin. Culm- 

 sheaths thin, nearly as long as internodes, brownish-Mack hairs on the hack, blade 

 narrow, half the length of sheath or more. L. 6-15 by 1-3 in., pet. |-J in. long, a. 

 L6-20 on | in. Panicle large, contracted, drooping, consisting of long slender spikes. 

 Fl. at long intervals, Travancore in 1887. 2. T. Grifflthii, Munro in Trans. Linn. 

 Soc. >: Gamble, t. 86. Syn. Cephaloslachyum Griffithii, Kurz. Assam iBeti, 



Behli). Chittagong. Burma ('Kurz. Straggling oi subscandent, culms 25-50 ft., 

 internodes 12—24 in. long, diam. il in. L. 6-10 bj '. l\ in., glaucous beneath, pet. short, 

 n. 20-36 on J in. Spikelets pubescent, 2-3 in. long. 3. T. Dullooa, Gamble, fc. 89. 

 British Bhutan 2,000 ft. (Tokri bans, Nep.). Garo hills (Wadru). Assam (Dalu, 

 ])i,lo. Dn/ln, Dallu). Silhet. Cachai Bajail). I 'liittagong (Dolu). Upper Burma: 



Eatha I Thaikwabo), Mogaung (Wamyet). Tufted, mor 'less scandeut, culms 20-60 



ft., internodes 15-30 in long, diam. 2-3 in. Culm-sheaths 6-12 iu. long, blade 

 very narrow, recurved, often ns long as sheath, edges convolute. L. 8-12 by 

 1-1A ii in., n. 21-30 on J in. Spikelets softly hairy, Oyawa (Bhamo), which 



may possibly belong to r 1 , i -. i- . [• •-■ -ii 1 m -, 1 by Montague Hill as a tall straight-growing 

 a i aceful Bamboo, growing in clumps, but each stem very dist inct, internodes 30—14 iu. 

 long, diam. 2—1 in. 1. T. Helferi, Gamble, t. 90. Syn. Pseudostachyum Hetferi, Kurz. 

 Assam, Garo I Wiali), Khasi [Tumoh), and Jaintia hills. Pegu Yoma, chiefly on the 

 easl side i Wathabul . Hills easl of Toungoo, 4,000 ft. Salween hills, 2,000 ft'. (Thochi, 



Karen). Evergi n. eminently gregarious, forming impenetrable thickets of large 



extent, en 1 ins 211 |H ft. long, I .ending over in all direct ions an. I more or less climb 



internodes grej ish-green, « bile young with appressed whitish bristles, 20-50 in. long, 



l-lj in. diam.. walls very thill. Culm-sheaths thick, p.-l'sistent. S-IO in. loll":. LI... I,- 



narrow, recurved, nearly as long as sheath. L. 6 I s by 14-81 in., pet, broad, 1 ', in 

 long, ii. 12-21 on j in. 



Schizostachyum Rogersii, sp. nova. Andamans G Rogers). Tufted, oulms weak. 

 up to 80 ft. long, to { in. diam., overhanging or supported by trees, walls thin. 

 i'n h. .--heat hs much shorter than internodes, thin, 3- 1 in, long, hairs verj fugacious, 

 base 2 -.". in. broad, tapering to J in., with ill oricles • the apex, I. lade 



narrow, reflexed, as long e L. 7-9 by l-lj in., long fine hairs on the under- 



side, ii. 21 on i in., transverse veins prominent, oblique and Lent, inflorescence a 

 long spike, terminating leafj branchlets, with distant half-whorls [supported bj 

 are of ten furnished with a blade) of I fid. glabrous spikelets, the fertile 

 I in. long, the sterile shorter. Empty glumes 2 l,j 



keels indistinct. It : unequal, anthers yellow, obtuse, .'. in, long, Ovarj 



glabrous, continued into a thick cylindric hollow style, terminated bj :'• long plumose 

 stigmas. Caryopsis ellipsoid-cylindric, crowned by the long, persistent style, endo- 



hilianthum, Kmz: Gamble, t. l'U of the 

 \i 1 1 1 1 Peninsula, Snm.it ra and Li\ ... 



li>. CEPHALOSTACHYUM, Munro; Fl, Brit. Ind. vii. 11 1. 



Tufted, in most s|xvii-s tl iter aerves rorj broad, transverse veins 



oft. 11 visible, but not conspicuous. Fl. heads dense. broadly obconical ..r 



