570 GRAMINEH. [ Melocanna. 
nate; lodicules 3, transparent, almost faleate-lanceolate, minutely 
ciliate towards the apex ; anthers yellowish, notched at both ends ; 
ovary flask-shaped, glabrous, continuous with the long, thick, 3- 
cornered persistent style ; stigmas 3, pilose, white ; caryopsis ovate, 
the size of a small pear, firmly fleshy, smooth, green, incurved- 
ed. 
Haz.—Chittagong hills ; Tenasserim. 
DINOCHLOA, Buse. 
Inflorescence almost racemulose- or clustered-panicled. “Spike- 
lets rather terete, ovate, 3-flowered, the lower 2 flowers reduced to 
the outer paleas, the terminal one hermaphrodite. Inner palea much 
longer than the outer, concave. Stamens 6, free. Lodicules none. 
Ovary with a firm pericarp,*ovate, narrowed in a short strong style; 
stigmas 3, short, villous. Caryopsis ovoid, acuminate, dry.—Lo y 
climbing bamboos, with usually zigzag-curved stems, dying off 
after fruiting. Spikelets mimute. 
Spikelets in a dried state straw-coloured, hardly a line long ; shoot- 
sheaths fugaceously white-setulose, not auricled and narrowed 
towards the mouth : : . i A : : . 
Shoot-sheaths fugaceously silvery, not narrowed upwards, at the = 
mouth thickened and polished green . ~ «~~ . D. Maelellandit. 
1. D, Andamanica, Kz.—An evergreen, lofty, scandent bamboo, 
ascending up to 100 ft. and depending from the highest trees, the 
"Dy Andamanica. 
furnished with a poor fringe of stiff fragile hairs, smooth along the 
margins, the imperfect blade leafy, ovate-lanceolate to lanceolate, 
acuminate, erect-spreading, above minutely hispid, the ligule con- 
necting the 2 rounded apices of the mouth and minutely toothed ; 
contrac 
long by 1-2 broad, smooth on both sides, hardly rough along the 
one margin, thin-chartaceous, the 7-9 nerves at each side of the 
midrib faint, but distinct ; sheaths glabrous, almost rounded at the 
somewhat produced niouth and here fringed with long hairs; the | 
ligule narrow, whitish, extending along the whole mouth, entire ; 
spikelets minute, $-1 lin. long, ovate, glossy, straw-coloured, glab- 
rous, sessile, clustered and interruptly spiked, collected in a raceme- 
like, narrow, terminal panicle; lower palea saceate-cymbiform, 
shortened, retuse-mucronate, empty ; outer palea of hermaphrodite 
florets broadly convolute-ovate, acute, smooth, nearly a line long, - 
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