Ff a Ste oe ase 
Cephalostachyum. | GRAMINE®. 567 
smooth and glossy, tapering at both ends, terminated by a very 
long stiff beak. 
Hazs.—Ava, in the forests of Wullaboom ; also Chittagong. 
PSEUDOSTACHYUM, Munro. 
flowered, when they die off. 
very strong; shooth-sheaths quite smooth ; auricles lunate, 
reflexed, stiff-fringed ; ligule very narrow, entire ; spikelets 
2-23 lin. long, clustered ; caryopsis irregular globose, the size Z 
of a wood-apple ; anthers yellow; stigmas white . es) fe le compactiflorum. 
Culms very hollow and weak; shoot-sheaths minutely white- 
setose ; auricles very small, long-fringed ; ligule conspicuously 
(2-4lin.long) fringed. . » - + + + + B Helferi. 
z.—An evergreen tufted arborescent 
ae K 
bamboo (15—25 + 0-+4—+4), the stems greyish green, half-scandent, 
spreading, sparingly hispid above, at the rounded base extended 
into a 8 A Sefiered : sesdoetit-ahiaped: prided and spreading stiff- 
fringed auricle, the ligule entire, very narrow ; leaves large, oblong- 
lanceolate to lanceolate, obliquely truncate or obtuse at the base and 
narrowed into a 1-2 lin. long petiole, 6-10 in. long by 1-2 
~ broad, subulate-acuminate, chartaceous, glabrous, rough along the 
one margin and towards the point, glaucescent beneath, the 9-13 
nerves at each side of the midrib rather distant, faint, but rather 
conspicuous ; sheaths appressed-silky-setose, but very soon glabres- 
cent, at the truncate mouth produced in a hunate reflexed auricle 
fringed with strong, stiff, caducous hairs up to 3 lin. long, the ligule 
entire, narrow; spikelets very small, only about 2-24 lin. long, 
broad, and in flower appearing truncate-2-cleft, 5-flowered, im 
_ dense clusters and interruptly spiked, forming, as the leaves fall, 
a large radical panicle; lower 2 paleas empty, the 2 following ones 
hermaphrodite, reeith a terminal rather long-pedicelled, obovate, 
