556 GRAMINER. [ Gagantochloa. 
(about a line long) petiole, 6-8 in. long by 3-1 broad, chartaceous, 
subulate-acuminate, glabrous, rough along the margins, especially 
towards the apex, glaucescent beneath; spikelets elongate-linear, 
slightly or not compressed, more or less curved, rarely straight, 
acuminate, glaucous-green, #-1 in. long, compactly 3-5-flowered, 
densely clustered, interruptedly spiked, gradually forming radical 
large panicles with the fall of the leaves, the lower paleas empty 
and much shortened, usually the terminal one hermaphrodite, the 
remaining 1 or 2 males; outer palea of the hermaphrodite florets 
linear-lanceolate, convolute, acuminate, the margins conspicuously 
and elegantly white-fimbriate ; the inner palea elongate and narrow, 
much shorter, pilose at the bluntish apex, white-ciliate along the 
angles of the deplanate back; anthers bristly acuminate, greenish 
yellow; ovary rough at the apex; style simple, the stigmas white ; 
caryopse elongate-oblong, cylindrical, stylose-acuminate. 
Has.—Common in the mixed forests, especially the lower ones, but not en- 
tering the savannahs, all over Pegu and Martaban down to Tenasserim.—Fl. Fr. 
C8. & H.S.—l.+s.—SS.=SiS. Metam. All 
2. G. Andamanica, Kz.—An evergreen tufted bamboo (20 
—30+0+4—H), the stems rather hollow, glaucous-green, glabrous ; 
shoot-sheaths green, fugaceously appressed dark-brown hispid, and 
similarly ciliate on the margins, at the nearly truncate mouth 
bordered with a nude very narrow glossy green, at the end rounded 
auricle extending sometimes to the base of the spreading, herba- - 
ceous, linear imperfect blade which is sparingly dark-brown bristly 
above, the ligule narrow, almost entire; leaves lanceolate, at the 
base rounded or rarely truncate and contracted in a short (1-13 
lin. long) petiole, long-acuminate, 6-10 in. long or longer by 1-13 
broad, glabrous, somewhat rough on the margins, glaucescent 
beneath, the 9-10 nerves at each side faint; sheaths appressed 
fuscous-hispid, soon turning glabrous, at the one side of the pro- 
duced mouth bordered by a rounded, nude, intensely green and 
glossy auricle, at the other side almost nude, the ligule very narrow 
and inconspicuous ; spikelets cylindrically linear, more or less curv! 
or straight, 3-1 in. long, crowdedly 6-7-flowered, clustered, in inter- 
rupted spikes forming gradually a large radical panicle with the 
anthers purple, terminating in a long bristle; style simple, stiff, 
shortly hirsute, the stigma somewhat thickened, white-pilose. 
_ Hap—Common in the mixed forests of the Andamans, and forming often 
jungles.—Fl. Apr.-May.—l. + s.—SS.—Metam. SiS. 
