562 GRAMINEE. { Dendrocalamus. 
Haz.—Frequent along choungs, in the moister upper mixed forests and also 
in the tropical forests of Arracan, Pegu Yomah, and Martaban.—F.C.S. & H. 
6. D. calostachyus, Kz—An evergreen(?) tufted bamboo, 
the sheaths of the branch-shoots appressed-fuscous-setose, white- 
ong by 
fugaceously appressed-silvery-setose, thickened and annulate at the 
joints; leaves large, broadly lanceolate, 4-1 ft. long by 2-1 in. 
broad, rounded at the base and contracted into a very short (hardly 
alternately flattened and more or less puberulous; the lower 2 
paleas shortened and empty, the following all perfect ; outer palea 
? 
the inner palea oblong-boat-shaped, acute (those of the lower florets 
also blunt), slightly narrowed towards the base, shorter than the 
outer palea, puberulous or rarely almost glabrous on the depressed 
back and white-fringed along its angles and on the margins to the 
inflected sides ; anthers yellow, rather long and smoothly mucronate ; 
filaments free ; ovary and the long style hirsute, the stigma simp!?, 
purple (?) ; lodicules 1 or 2, woolly fringed, minute. 
Has.—Ava, at Bhamo and on the Kakhyen hills east of it, at 3,500 ft. 
elevation.—Fl. Jan.-March, 
7. D. Griffithianus (Bambusa Griffithiana, Munr.).—An ever 
green (?) bamboo, the stems slender, almost scandent (?), fistulose ; 
leaves large, 1-14 ft. long by 2-3 in. broad, at the obtuse base nar- 
rowed into a very short strong petiole, subulate-acuminate, re- 
trorsely rough along the margins towards the apex, in other res- 
mouth with a large crescent-shaped reflexed auricle up to § in. long 
and strongly fringed, the ligule large, blunt, usually ruptured 5 
edl " 
lower 3 paleas empty, the last but one hermaphrodite, Wi 
inal long-pedicelled rudimentary floret; outer palea of —_ 
phrodite florets glabrous, minutely mucronate, the inner one nearly 
