560 GRAMINEE. [ Dendrocalamus. 
3. D. membranaceus, Munr.—Wa-yai.—An evergreen arbore- 
ous tufted bamboo (40—50+4+0+4+4—4), the stems green, whitish 
powdery below the strongly annulate joints, branched already from 
the base, the internodes about }-1 ft. (the basal ones 4-6 in.) long ; 
shoot-sheaths very similar to those of B. Brandisii, almost as long 
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the very slightly produced mouth armed with 1 or another short 
bristle ; spikelets very slightly compressed, glossy, glabrous, 3-4 
lin. long, crowdedly 4-5-flowered, in dense clusters and inter- 
ruptedly spiked, and as the leaves fall they form gradually an im- 
mense radical glabrous panicle; the lower 2 or 3 paleas empty, the 
following 2 or 3 hermaphrodite, with or without a terminal rudi- 
mentary one ; outer palea of hermaphrodite florets broadly concave- 
oblong, mucronulate, smooth and glossy, the inner palea shorter, 
ciliate along the angles of the depressed back ; anthers apiculate, 
yellow ; ovary and the long simple style hirsute, the stigmas 
purple ; caryopsis ovate, contracted at the base, nearly 2 lin. long; 
glossy, the apex and the persistent style-base slightly hirsute. 
Has.—Not unfrequent in the tropical forests of Martaban.—Fl. Fr. March. 
—s+1.—SS.—Metam. 
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cent, soon quite glabrous, long-produced at the mouth and here 
furnished with a few long bristles, the ligule conspicuous and long; 
