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352 GRAMINER. [ Bambusa. 
produced, at length turning very short, entire, the imperfect blade 
linear-lanceolate, small, acuminate, green, afterwards reflexed, 
minutely hispid above, smooth beneath, the margins serrulate-rough ; 
leaves lanceolate, 4-6 in. long, long-acuminate, at the rounded base 
contracted in a 1-2 lin. long petiole, above retrorsely rough towards 
and on the margins, somewhat rough and rather glaucescent 
~ beneath, the 4-8 or rarely more nerves at each side thin but conspi- 
cuous ; sheaths glabrous, suleate in a dried state, much produc 
and nude at their mouth, and here furnished with a conspicuous, 
oblique, entire, or toothed-ruptured ligule up to a line broad ; spike- 
lets few, clustered, coriaceous, glossy, almost an inch long, 6-10- 
flowered, pale brown, forming a terminal, interrupted, almost simple 
spike or panicle ; rachille rather short, shortly bearded at the apex; 
outer palea more than 20-nerved, long-acuminate, the inner one 7- 
nerved between the 2 fringed angles of the depressed back ; lodicules 
3, rather thick, the 2 larger ones often united; ovary almost obo- 
vate, nearly hairy at the apex and tapering into a 3-cleft style. 
Has.—In the Eng forests of Martaban, east of the Sittang. 
3. B, tulda, Roxb.; Brand. For. Fl., 566.—Thaih-wa.—An 
evergreen, tufted, arboreous bamboo often shedding leaves in drier 
districts (40—60+ (?) +2—1), the stems narrow-fistulose, strong, 
green, hardly glossy, the internodes 14 ft. long, the lowermost 
ones fibrous-annulate at the joints; shoots green, glabrous, their 
sheaths green, whitish-powdered or almost pruinous, more or 
thinly covered with dark-brown appressed bristles, on the margins 
indistinctly or almost not ciliolate, the imperfect blade broadly 
ovate, cuspidate, coriaceous, erect, minutely retrorse-hispid inside, 
decurrent into a large purplish or yellowish fringed contiguous oF 
sinuately separated waved auricle, the ligule narrow, entire; leaves 
oblong to linear-lanceolate, 7-9 in. long by }-1} broad, short- 
petioled, with a rounded base, acuminate, glaucescent and puberu- 
lous beneath, turning rough (more so on the borders), the 7-9 
lateral nerves on each side conspicuous; sheaths glabrous, or rarely 
hairy on the back towards the apex, deciduously and long whitish- 
fringed on the minutely auricled produced mouth; panicle consist- 
ing of interrupted spikes, gradually becoming gigantic and radical 
after the fall of the leaves ; spikelets clustered by 2 or 3 or many, 
1-23 in. long, linear-lanceolate, acuminate, depressed, supported by 
a few dry chartaceous small bracts, the lower 2 or 8 paleas gem- 
miparous, all the others hermaphrodite or rarely one or the othe 
of the lower ones male; rachille smooth ; outer palea of hermaphro- 
dite flowers concaye-oblong, acuminate, smooth and glossy green; 
imner palea somewhat shorter, smooth, white-fringed along the 
angles of the 2-keeled back ; lodicules 3, long and tenderly fringed ; 
