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lets ovate, slightly compressed, 5-6-flowered, 4-5 lin. long, very 
variable in indument, from hirsute to almost glabrous and glossy, 
many together and densely clustered, in interrupted spikes at the 
ends of the leafy branches, the lower 2 or 3 paleas empty, the 
following 2 hermaphrodite ; rachillae very short, persistent ; outer 
palea of hermaphrodite florets concave-ovate, 4-5 lin. long, charta- 
ceous, nerved, minutely ciliate or nude, especially towards the 
keeled apex hirsute, pubescent or rarely wholly smooth and glabrous 
or only roughish, terminating in a sharp, subulate, stiff bristle nearly 
a line long ; inner palea fringed along the margins and the angles 
of the depressed back ; anthers yellow or greenish yellow, blunt; 
ovary and style-base minutely hirsute; style very long, 2-cleft at 
the apex, the stigmas purple ; caryopsis elliptically ovoid, about 3 
= long, glossy brown, crowned by the long subulate hairy style- 
ase, 
Hazs.—Common in the Eng, dry and drier upper mixed forests, all over 
Burma from Ava and Martaban down to Pegu and Upper Tenasserim.—Fl. Fr. 
H.8.—1.—SS.—Ca8. SiS. Dil. 
2. D. criticus, Kz.—An evergreen arboreous tufted bamboo 
(15—30 + 0+ 4—%), the stems amply fistulose, weak, the internodes 
about a foot long, while young appressed whitish puberulous ; 
shoot-sheaths large, covered with minute silvery appressed bristles, 
almost truncate at the mouth, the imperfect blade lanceolate, con- 
Volute-acuminate, similarly appressed silky-bristly outside as the 
Sheath, not narrowed at the base and extended into conspicuous 
faleate-oblong bristly fringed auricles about 3 in. long, the one 
directed upwards, the other downwards ; leaves linear-lanceolate, 
often somewhat oblique at the truncate base, on a short about a 
line long petiole (the upper ones almost sessile), 4-8 in. long by 
2-1 broad, long-acuminate, thin-chartaceous, sparingly and roughish 
hairy beneath, rough along the margins, the 5-7 nerves at each side 
of the midrib faint but conspicuous ; sheaths glabrous (?) (probably 
hirsute while young), not produced at the mouth and here furnished 
with a thickened long- (hairs 2-4 lin. long) fringed auricle ; rest 
unknown. 
Has.—Apparently restricted to the shady side of the summit of the Kambala- 
toung, Prome Yomah, at about 3,000 ft. elevation,—s.—SS.=Ca8. 
