Banbusa.)} GRAMINER, 553 
anthers yellow, almost truncate or blunt; ovary obovate, white- 
hispid on the apex ; style short, 3-cleft or rarely simple by arrest ; 
stigmas long, white, pilose; caryopsis oblong or oval, hirsute on 
the apex. 
Has.—Frequent in the open, especially the Eng forests, all over Pegu and 
Martaban down to Tenasserim; also Arracan; rare along choungs in the d 
forests of Prome; cultivated in Chittagong and elsewhere.—Fl. Fr. H.S.—l.— 
§8S.=Arg. Dil. 
4. B. (?) villosula, Kz.—An almost simple-stemmed rarely 
tufted bamboo, the stems arising usually singly from the stock, of the 
thickness of the human arm, the internodes 1-1} ft. long, equal at 
the joints ; shoot-sheaths truncate, ciliate on the margin, glabrous 
outside, “ without an imperfect blade ;” leaves linear, narrowed or 
rounded at the base, 5-8 in. long by 4$-% broad, acuminate, very 
shortly petioled, above and on the margins scabrous, glaucescent- 
green, beneath pubescent, whitish glaucous, villous towards the 
petiole, lateral veins little conspicuous, 5-6 on each side; leaf- 
sheaths minutely villous, glabrescent, whitish ciliate on the margins, 
one side of the mouth produced in a rather long, thin, sparingly 
and rigidly fringed caudicle-like appendage, the other hardly auri- 
cled and furnished with a few small bristles ; rest unknown.—(Par- 
tially after Brandis.) : ; 
Has.—On limestone hills of Martaban and Upper Tenasserim.—Ca, (This 
seems to be the true tabeindein-wa. 
5. polymorpha, Munr.—Kya-thoun-wa.—An evergreen and 
arboreous tufted bamboo (50—70 + (?) + 14), often leaf-shedding 
in drier districts or in unusually dry seasons, the stems fistu-— 
the internodes about 2 ft. long, the lower ones_ regularly 
minute auricle bearing a few stiff rather long bristles ; spikelets 
depressed, with 3-5 small empty glumes at the base, polished 
