564 GRAMINE. [ Cephalostachyum. 
2. C. pergracile, Munr.—Tin-wa.—A leaf-shedding arboreous, 
tufted bamboo (30—50-+ (?)+4—#), the stems very hollow, 
glaucous-green, more or less whitish puberulous below the hardly 
thickened joints, the internodes 1-1} ft. long; shoot-sheaths 
fringed appendage terminating in a falcate-oblong, rounded, fringed 
auricle, the ligule very narrow, entire; leaves lanceolate to broadly 
lanceolate, at the rounded or obtuse base contracted in ashort broad 
petiole, subulate-acuminate, 4-1 ft. long by 1-1} in. broad, charta- 
ceous, retrorsely rough on both sides and spinulose rough on the 
margins, glaucescent beneath, the 7-13 nerves at each side of 
the midrib rather conspicuous ; sheaths glabrous or nearly s0, the 
margins whitish ciliate, conspicuously membranously auricled at 
the mouth, and here fringed by numerous strong, pale-coloured, stiff, 
deciduous hairs up to 2 in. long ; spikelets bracted, } in. long, lineat- 
cylindrical, whitish hirsute, acuminate, 6-flowered, in dense, large, 
distant clusters along a filiform rachis or terminal, forming very 
slender, elongate, interrupted spikes gradually , passing, as the leaves 
fall, into a radical large panicle; the last floret but one herma- 
phrodite, enclosing the pedicel of a terminal abortive one, the né 
lower one reduced to an empty outer palea, the remaining lowet 
paleas gemmiparous and developing gradually into perfect spikelets 5 
outer palea hirsute, subulate-acuminate, the imner one sulcate 
towards the hirsute subulate-acuminate-point ;. lodicules 3, large, 
lanceolate, acuminate, entire; anthers purple; stigmas white; 
caryopsis-obovate-oblong, nearly 4 in. long, abruptly terminating 
in a straight beak of eq ual length, glossy brown. 
Hazs.—Common in the upper mixed forests, and often forming forests for 
itself, rare in the lower ones, all over Pegu and Martaban down to Tenasserim.— 
Fl. Fr. C.S. & H.S.—1.—SS.=SiS. Metam 
3. C, flavescens, Kz.—An evergreen tufted shrubby bamboo, 
