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ciliate ligule) ; spikelets remarkably small, only 3-4 lin. long, 4-5- 
flowered, green when fresh, glossy, many clustered together, in 
interrupted spikes, forming gradually an immense radical panicle 
with the fall of the leaves ; the lower paleas shorter and empty, the 
Has.—Common in the tropical forests of the eastern slopes of the Pegu 
Yomah and of Martaban, up to 3,500 ft. elevation—Fl. Fr. H.S.—s.—SS 
Metam. SiS. 
5. D. longispathus, Kz.— Wa-ya.—An evergreen tufted bam- 
boo (40—60+0+4—4), the stems greyish green, amply hollow, 
the “internodes about 14-2 ft. long, slightly thickened and often 
Tooting at the joints; shoot-sheaths very long and narrow, not 
embracing the internodés at the upper part, about 1;-1} ft. long, 
appressed dark-brown-setose and similarly retrorsely ciliate along 
€ margins, at one side of the narrowed mouth with a short, 
rounded, nude, membranous auricle, the imperfect blade linear- 
lanceolate, long-acuminate, membranous, reflexed, the ligule eonspi- 
Cuous, but rather narrow, long and coarsely dark brown or tawny- 
ristly fimbriate ; leaves lanceolate to linear-lanceolate, 6-8 in. 
long by $ to 1 broad, long-acuminate, more or less tapering or 
obtuse at the base and contracted in a very short petiole or almost 
sessile, chartaceous, glaucescent beneath, slightly rough, but soon 
ins, the 7 or 8 nerves at each side of 
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€ midrib faint, but visible ; sheaths glabrous, somewhat produced 
_ at the nude mouth, the narrow ligule rather conspicuous, fringed ; 
spikelets very small and truncate, about 24-3 lin. long, narrower 
at the base, broadest at the apex, rather densely and divaricately 
5-flowered, in dense small clusters, interruptedly spiked, and as the 
leaves fall forming gradually an immense radical panicle ; the lower 
smaller 2 paleas empty or gemmiparous, the 3 upper ones fertile ; 
Outer palea of hermaphrodite florets obovate-orbicular, acute, nearly 
5 lin, long, glossy, the inner one nearly as long, narrowly nisi g aoe 
Ee. slightly pilose along the angles of the concave depre 
anthers mucronate, yellow ; style long, persistent, shortly 2-cleft, 
like the ovary hirsute, the stigmas purple. 
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