Melocanna.| GRAMINER. 569 
the style long and thick, continuous with the ovary; stigmas 3, 
pilose. Caryopsis very large and firmly fleshy, incurved-beaked.— 
Arboreous or almost shrubby tufted bamboos, with very large fruits 
and one-sided-spiked spikelets forming panicles. 
Low, 8-15-20 ft. high ; leaves roughish pubescent beneath . . UN. humilis. 
Arboreous, 50-70 ft. high; leaves quite glabrous . : A . WM. bambuseoides, 
1. M. humilis, Kz.—An evergreen tufted bamboo (8—15 +420 
+%—}4), the stems very hollow, hardly thickened at the annulate 
joints, the internodes about a foot long or somewhat longer ; shoot- 
sheaths glabrous (?), very short, at the sinuate and much-produced 
mouth rounded and inflated, the imperfect blade linear, subulate- 
acuminate, erect, decurrent into a narrow, nude, green stripe border- 
ing the sinuses, the ligule very narrow, entire; leaves lanceolate to 
linear-lanceolate, obtuse at the base, on a 2-83 lin. long petiole, 
subulate-acuminate, 4-6 in. long by 3-F broad, very rough along 
the one margin, glaucescent and minutely roughish pubescent 
beneath, the 8-10 nerves at each side of the midrib very faint; 
sheaths glabrous, long-fringed at the minutely auricled mouth; 
flowers, etc., unknown. 
Has.—Common in the upper mixed forests of Arracan; also in Pegu, in the — 
Pazwoondoung valley near the village Wanet.—s.—SS.=SiS. 
2. M. bambuszoides, Trin.—An evergreen arboreous tufted 
bamboo (50--70+ (?)+4—1), the stems far up void of branches, 
very hollow, green, not thickened at the joints; shoot-sheaths red- 
dish or yellowish green, very brittle, minutely appressed white- 
bristly, much produced and rounded-faleate at the widened sinuate 
mouth, the imperfect blade erect, linear-lanceolate, Jong-acuminate, 
at the base decurrent into a narrow, green, nude stripe extending 
over the whole sinus at both sides, the ligule very narrow, minutely 
ciliate ; leaves lanceolate to linear-lanceolate, somewhat truncate 
at the base, on a 2-3 lin. long petiole, 1-14 ft. long by 1-14 
in. broad, subulate-acuminate, chartaceous, glabrous, along one 
margin more rough than along the other, glaucescent beneath, the 
7-14 nerves at each side of the midrib inconspicuous and faint ; 
-Sheaths glabrous, long- and stiff-fringed at the minutely auricled 
mouth; spikelets compound, sheathed, rather depressed, 5-6- 
flowered, 4 in. long, collected into dense, one-sided, short spikes 
forming an ample, after the fall of the leaves radical, panicle ; 
florets distichous, the lower 2 or 8 outer paleas gemmiparous, an 
the buds at length developing into perfect spikelets, the next palea 
empty, the following hermaphrodite and accompanied by a pedicel- 
like rudimentary floret; outer palea of hermaphrodite florets very 
concave and embracing the base of the short rachille, subulate- 
acuminate, glabrous; the inner palea convolute, mucronate-acumi- 
