558 GRAMINER. [ Gigantochloa. 
empty, the 3 upper ones hermaphrodite ; outer palea of the herma- 
rodite florets linear-lanceolate, convolute, subulate-acuminate, the 
inner palea very narrow boat-shaped, especially upwards along the 
angles of the deplanate back purplish black, ciliate, hardly 2-cleft 
at the apex; anthers purple, bristly acuminate; ovary and the 
simple long style hirsute, the stigma white. 
Has.—Not unfrequent in the tropical forests of Martaban and Tenasserim ; 
also — in villages of the Irrawaddi valley and of Arracan.—s.—SS.= 
Metam. SiS., 
DENDROCALAMUS, NE. 
Characters those of Bambusa, but the peoeerp of the caryopsis 
coriaceous or hard ; habit and stature the same 
xX Outer paleas terminated by a longer = shorter SE 
bristle or point ; anthers yellow ; stigmas le. 
Shoot-sheaths more or less ‘pruinose, slightly fos awny appressed 
setose, the mouth truncate ; angles of inner palea fringed ; 
oe of outer palea nearly 2 lin. hearst ee hairy or 
smooth . D. strictus. 
Shoot-sheaths minutely appressed-silvery- setose, anieles large, 
bristly-fringed, one turned u os. Sad wrds, , the -~ er = ards . D. eriticus. 
Gheabahebs appressed. dark-b auric cae decur- 
rent, stuppose-setose inside ; nee “of inner valle ciliate ; 
outer feed = gent-poin . D. membranaceus. 
xX pat erehee eucullate-mucronate, put not pungent ; 
membranous. 
oO Spikelets 0 only 21 2h. 4 lin. long ; anthers yellow; stigmas 
PF appressed-tawny-setose, auricles waved-decurren 
e-fringed inside ; — narrow, anete of inner ae 
ees bly ef ciliate . D. Brandisii. 
Shoot-sheaths narrow a: and nearly as long as he "intern odes, a 
pressed da meee netos ose, only at one side of the mouth with 
a small nude auricle ; ligule conspicwns, ay -fimbriate ; 
angles of inner valen slightly pi pilose . D. longispathus. 
oO mer lets rather large, 6-7 li long or longer ; ; 
very large; s hoot-sheaths i known. 
Mouth of leaf-sheaths not Produced i in an auricle, the ligule con- 
sacri ok mbriate ; co nl of inner ah age white- 
i ers Cae 3 sti . D. calostachyus. 
Mouth of sid Asan with abot se ape strong fimbria te auricles 
ligule large, usually = : =e of inner 2c smooth, 
or. lo =e fimbria . . D. Griffithianus. 
. “NE; ‘Bedd. ely. Madr., 235, t. 325; Brand. 
or. Fi, a 569, t. 70 —Myin -wa.—A leaf- shedding arboreous 
bamboo (30—50 +0444), the stems narrow-fistulose, while young 
nearly solid, green, the internodes about a foot long, much 
the narrow-truncate brs ie ope fringed and almost 
ppm with the erect, acuminate, almost coriaceous, glabrous 
