Melocanna] CXII. GEA3IIXE.E 683 



hisa baccifera, Boxb. Cor. PI. t. 243. Vern. Midi, Beng. ; Tarai, Ass. ; 

 Watarai, Garo; Wati, Cachar ; Kayaung, Arakan : Kayinwa, Tabindaingwa, 

 Burm. 



Rhizome with long creeping scaly branches, which turn upwards at the 

 end to form new etilms. Culms distant, erect, 40-70 ft. long, the lower 

 two-thirds bare of branches, sometimes with a few short branchlets at the 

 lowest nodes, internodes 10-22 in. long, 1-3 in. diam., smooth, walls thin. 

 Buds (myetsan) small, flat. Culm-sheaths firmly coriaceous, persistent, 

 brown, contrasting with the bright green of the young internodes, 5-7 in. 

 long, upper third wavy, not appressed to the culm, sparsely hairy outside, top 

 coucavely truncate with rounded auricles, blade recurved, narrow (£ the top of 

 sheath), longer than sheath, evenly narrowed into a long convolute apex, 

 glabrous and striate on both sides. L. 6-14 by 1-4 in., underside glaucous, 

 glabrous or with a few scattered hairs near the base, n. 18-24 on ^ in., inner 

 edge closely set with fine hairs on a broad colourless band. Transverse n. 

 visible as evenly-distributed pellucid dots, tip long acuminate with a flat 

 brush of rigid hairs below the scabrid point, pet. .'. in. long. Sheaths keeled, 

 glabrous with cilia te edges, white soft deciduous bristles J-f in. long at mouth, 

 ligule short. 



Garo, Khasi, and Lushai hills. Cbittagong forests. Forms extensive forests in 

 Arakan and the Upper Chindwin. Fl. at long intervals : Kurz (Ind. For. i. '2'u I states 

 that in Arakan it flowers every 30 to 35 years. The data at present available are as 

 follows; they are not sufficient to justify anv definite concdusions: Garo and Khasi 

 hills, 1889, L900, 1902. Chittagong, 1801, 1902. Arakan, 1864-1865, 1902. Bot. 

 Garden, Calcutta, 1863,1866. The fruit is 3-4 in, long, it hangs on a short peduncle 

 clothed with sheathing bracts, and frequently germinates on the tree. 2. M. humilis, 

 Kurz: Gamble t. 106. Arakan. Pegu, Faungun valley near "Wa.net village -Kurz). 

 Tufted 8-1") ft. high, 1. 4-6 by §-1 in., subulate-acuminate, glaucescent and min- 

 utely roughish pubescent beneath (not seen). :'>. A species found by C. B. Clarkf in 

 1885 on the high road from Manipur town to Silchar, near the Irang river. There 

 was a large pure forest of this Bamboo, and he was in that forest for two days' 

 march. The culms were solitary, distant, 20 ft. high, unbranched below, but on 

 the lower nodes with sharp thorns 1-3 in. long, which rendered the forest very 

 difficult to penetrate. L. similar to those of 1, 10 by 1-1J in., narrowed into a long 

 ti]i with l< >i i lt stiff hairs, n. 24-80 on J in., inner edge closely set with fine hairs on 

 a colourless band. This species has not been found again, since 1885 the forest 

 along thai road lias been jhumed twice by the Nagas. A thorny Bamboo brought 

 from that, locality in 1! IU5 is Aruinlinaria callosa or near it. 



4. Tabindaing. Attaran (Manson, Dec. 1903). Branches of rhizome 4 in. diam.. 

 bending Upwards and terminating in a culm nearly naked in the lower part, inter- 

 nodes striped 'J-,_;j(i ; n long. diam. 2i in., nodes hardly swollen, walls J in. Culm- 



sheaths someti s green, very thick, persistent, 8-10 in. long, truncate, Made 



reflexed, long, striate, 3 in. broad al base, decurrent on boi h sides into a wavy fringed 

 band J-j in. broad. L. 15-20 by 2 2J in., pale beneath and sometimes minutelj 

 velvet \, transverse veins visible, n. 20-25 on J in., ligule prominent, This probably 

 is the single-stemmed Bamboo mentioned on p. 50 of my Atl Report. (Selec- 

 tions fr the Records of the Govt, of India, Foreign Dept. xxxii. Ca L861), 



"Abundant in the Attaran, frequent near limestone rocks." From .1/. bambtuoidet 

 this species is distinguished by the longer culm-sheaths, tightly appressed to the 

 internodes, blade broad nol convolute, decurrenl into a broad wavy band, tip of leaf 



without a brush, sheath quite glabrous, ligule large. Fr the single-stemmed 



Bamboos enumerated under Qigantockloa macrostachya, it differs by larger leaves and 

 the distant longitudinal nerves, it has been mentioned under Melocanna, because an 

 entry in Serb. Kew. shows thai a dowering specimen ticketed " Falconer, Moulmein," 

 was sorted oul hecaii-e it was i d e ii t i i'ii ! « i t h a flowering specimen of Mi locanna bambu- 

 si, i,i 1 1 from I iort. 1 tot . ( 'ale, ami this possible was the single-stemmed Attaran Bamboo. 

 It is not mentioned in Falconer's Report on the Attaran Forests, Kurz F, Fl. ii. 

 570 and Gamble atiou Ten a -serin, as a locality of Melocanna ha 



Here may be mentioned a single-stemmed Bamboo (Tabim und by me in 



March 1859, in the upper Salween forests, of which I have no specimens, but a 



description with sketch in my Notes- Culms very tall, branches from the lower Qi 



simple, st iff, leafless, In dense half- whorls, the upper pan of the culm with leaf-bearing 

 bram hes. Internodes L2 lo in, long, 8 H in. diam.. node-rings horizontal, sheaths 



glabrous outside, oiliate on tl l-.es. deciduous, 20 in. long, top truncate. L. 5 bj 



k in., glaucous beneath. 



