568 GRAMINEZ. [ Pseudostachyum. 
abortive bipaleaceous female floret. carrying a lower empty outer 
palea at its base ; outer palea of hermaphrodite florets broadly oval, 
ventricose, with a very short apical mucro, glossy, about 2 lin. 
long ; inner palea as long, broadly boat- shaped, shortly 2-toothed 
at the apex, white-ciliate along the angles of the depressed back ; 
lodicules 3, very large, oval, blunt, long-white-fringed ; ; stamens 6, 
free, the anthers greenish yellow ; ovary glabrous, in engrossing 
triangular-obturbinate, with a short thick truncate style; stigmas 
almost lateral, short, plumose, white; ripe caryopsis as large as 
a wood-apple, irregularly globose, elossy-green, then brown, the 
a in the drier hill forests of pe feserse east of jrouneiays BS 
4,000 to 6, ks ft. elevation, rarely descending to 3,000 ft.—Fl. Fr. H.8.—lL.— 
8S.=Meta 
a ‘= elferi, Kz.—An evergreen tufted, bushy bamboo (20 
Stee ine stems very hollow, ereyish green, especially 
while young sprinkled with appressed whitish bristles, much arched 
and almost scandent, the internodes about 2 ft. long, somewhat 
nae aa whitish at the joints ; “ete aries green, very 
fugaceously white-setulose, the imperfect blade leafy, spreading, 
lanceolate to linear-lanceolate, acuminate, es shortly hispid, at the 
narrowed base narrowly decurrent and terminating in a produced, 
narrow, small, long-fringed auricle, the ligule very narrow, but con- 
spicuously fringed with white stiff hairs 2-4 lin. long ; leaves large 
oblong-lanceolate, usually unequal at the base and contracted in a 
1-2 lin. long petiole, acuminate, 3-1 ft. long by 2-24 and even 3 i in. 
road, while young rough along the hardens glabrous, cherie 
glaucescent beneath, the 7-12 nerves at each side of the midrib 
rather indistinct ; shantha apparently glabrous, at the one side of 
the slightly produced mouth terminating in a minute, caducous, 
Has ent} in the tropical and moister upper mixed ca especially 
along choungs, of the Pegu Yomah and Martaban, often formi g almost im- 
penetrable jungles, up to 3,000 ft. elevation —s : 1.—SS.—= et Eg 3 
MELOCANNA, Trin. 
Inflorescence spicate-panicled. Spikelets one-sided, rather de- 
ressed, compound, 5-6-flowered, bracted. Inner palea of the 
feemaphrodite florets convolute, the 2 or 3 lowermost outer paleas 
gemmiparous, and developing these buds at length into perfect 
spikelets. Lodicules 3, Stamens 6, free. Ovary flask-shaped,. 
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