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Cephalostachyum.} GRAMINE®, 565 
(10—15+0+44%) the stems usually yellow ; shoot-sheaths brittle, 
covered with appressed whitish stiff bristles, the imperfect blade 
erect or nearly so, inflated-cordate, convolute-acuminate, at the base 
extended into a broad waved fimbriate appendage produced into 2, 
almost faleate, strongly fringed auricles, the one bent downwards, 
the other upwards, the ligule about 2 lin, broad, erose-toothed ; 
leaves small, linear, 3-5 in. long by 4-4 broad, acuminate, at the 
blunt, first greenish and slightly purplish-dotted, then pale yellow ; 
the apex and 
the 3-quetrous style 
Has.—Introduced from Pegu into the Botanical Gardens at Calcutta. 
4. C. virgatum (Melocanna virgata, Munr.).—Arboreous ; 
sheaths and leaves unknown; spikelets cylindrically linear,acuminate, 
about 4 in. long, densely 4-flowered, bracted, glabrous, in lax clusters, 
forming interrupted spikes collected in a leafless panicle ; the lower 
outer paleas gemmiparous, the next one empty, the last but one 
hermaphrodite and accompanied by a pedicel-like rudiment of the 
terminal floret ; outer palea of hermaphrodite florets mucronate- 
acuminate, sparingly .pilose and soon glabrescent, the inner one 
suleate on the back, especially towards the 2-muecronate apex ; 
lodicules 3, lanceolate, acuminate, slightly fringed; anthers yel- 
low (?) ; stigmas plumose, purple. 
Has.—Mogoung. ; 
5. C, schizostachyoides, Kz.—An evergreen arboreous tufted 
bamboo (20—80+ (?) +31), the stems very hollow, green and 
ossy, the internodes 1}-2 ft. long, not thickened at the joints ; 
leaves lanceolate to linear-lanceolate, rounded or almost. narrowed 
at the base, on a 1-2 lin. long petiole, setaceously acuminate, 4-6 
m. long by 3-1 broad, chartaceous, retrorsely rough towards the 
one margin and also towards the point, otherwise glabrous, the 
