Gigantochioa.| GRAMINER. 557 
3. G. auriculata, Kz.—7a-la-hu-wa.—An evergreen arboreous 
tufted bamboo (80—40 + ? + 4—1), the stems narrow-fistulose, 
very strong, glossy green; shoots green, glossy, their sheaths 
glaucous-green, on both sides (especially upwards) densely covered 
with appressed, blackish brown, rarely tawny bristles, the margins 
brown- or blackish-ciliate, the mouth hardly produced and ter- 
minated by a small polished intensely green naked auricle, the 
imperfect blade usually as long or longer than the sheath itself, 
erect, lanceolate to broadly lanceolate, acuminate, chartaceous, 
outside on the back marked with 2 longitudinal streakes of 
blackish brown appressed bristles, the ligule narrow, entire ; leaves 
lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, rounded or tapering at the base, 
unknown; may eventually turn out to be identical with the pre- 
ceding species. . 
Has.—In the low forests of Southern Pegu, rather rare ; cultivated in vil- 
lages of Arracan and Chittagong—s+1—Ss.=Dil. Arg. 
4. G. macrostachya, Kz.—Wa-net—An evergreen arboreous 
tufted bamboo branched already from the base (30—50+0+43—4#), 
the stems amply fistulose (the wood 8 lin. thick), dark-green, the 
internodes annulate, but hardly thickened at the joints, 2-23 ft. long 
8 im. long, densely appressed-blackish-setose, ciliate along the 
margins, the imperfect blade (erect-spreading ?) broadly rerio 
i t 
into large waved fuscous-fringed auricles produced at the rounded 
ends, the ligule very narrow, entire or obsoletely toothed ; leaves 
ually into a radical mm 
strongly blackish hispid-fringed, the lower 3 or 4 shortened and 
