554 GRAMINER. | Bambusa. 
and usually steel-blue on the sunny side, 4-6-flowered, about $-4 in. 
long, forming slender glabrous spikes, soon transforming into an 
immense radical panicle after the shedding of the leaves, the lower 
1-2 florets reduced to empty paleas, the upper one female with a 
long-pedicelled rudimentary floret; outer palea of hermaphrodite 
owers concave-lanceolate, about 3 lin. long, bluntish with a dorsal 
point, polished, the inner palea almost longer, truncate at the apex, 
lanceolate-boat-shaped, depressed on the back, with the angles quite 
smooth ; anthers purple ; lodicules obovate-securiform, ciliate ; ovary 
obovate-club-shaped, puberulous at the apex; styles 3 (?), white- 
pilose ; caryopsis oblong, flattened on the back, with a flat rather 
acute apex, about 24 lin. long. 
Has.—Common in the upper mixed forests of the Pegu Yomah and 
Martaban.—Fl. Fr. H.S.—l.—SS.=SiS. Metam. 
6. B. arundinacea, Willd.; Bedd. Sylv. Madr., 231, t. 321; 
Brand. For. Fl., 64.—Kya-kat-wa.—An arboreous tufted bamboo 
(30—70+0+4—1), shedding leaves in H.S., the branchlets armed 
with recurved smaller or larger spines (abortive branchlets), the 
stems narrow fistulose, very strong, glossy green, the internodes 
rather short, slightly thickened at the joints; shoots green, gla 
rous, their sheaths quite smooth and glossy, violet to fuscous-pur- 
ple (or the uppermost ones often bright orange or scarlet), some- 
times striate, the margins fugaceously retrorse-ciliate, the imperfect 
blade broadly ovate, acute, concave with involute margins, coria- 
ceous, smooth outside, thickly appressed blackish bristly inside, at 
the base decurrent into a waved-plaited large auricle, the ligule 
broadly lanceolate, acute, smooth gt 8 rather glossy, the interior palea 
rather longer, puberulous, glabrescent, tomentose-ciliate on the 
angles of the deplanate 2-keeled back; anthers yellow; lodicules 
ringed ; stigmas purplish pilose ; caryopsis 2 lin. long, ovoid-ellip- 
tical, depressed on the back, bulbous-acute. 
