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Dinochiloa. | GRAMINES. 571 
the inner one conform; anthers spuriously 4-celled, acuminate ; 
ovary, etc., unknown. 
Has.—Common in the tropical forests of the Andamans.—Fl. March.— 
s: L—SS.—Metam. SiS., ete. ; 
2. D. Maclellandii (Bamusa Maclellandii, Munro).—Wa- 
nway.—An evergreen, lofty, scandent bamboo ascending trees of 
60-100 ft. height or spreading over lower ones, the stems up to 
an inch thick, geniculate at the thickened joints, rather hollow, 
greyish green, while young fugaceously silvery from appressed 
minute bristles ; shoot-sheaths fugaceously silvery from appressed 
minute bristles, green or yellowish green, rounded at the mouth 
and bordered by a thickened, polished, green margin extending to 
the base of the leafy, spreading, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, im- 
perfect blade, the ligule short, entire ; leaves large, oblong-to ovate- 
lanceolate, at the rounded base contracted mto a 1-2 lin. long 
petiole, subulate-acuminate, 4-1} ft. long by 14-3} in. broad, 
smooth, retrorsely rough along the one margin, especially towards 
the point, chartaceous, the 10-17 nerves at each side of the midni 
more or less distinct; sheaths while young very fugaceously ap- 
pressed-silvery-setulose, soon quite glabrous, slightly produced at 
the mouth, and furnished with an appressed rounded glossy nude 
auricle, the ligule extending all along, and somewhat exceeding, the 
mouth, entire ; flowers, etc., unknown. 
Has.—Frequent in the tropical forests of the eastern slopes of the Pegu 
Yomah and Martaban ; also Chittagong.—SS.—SiS. Metam. 
B. CRYPTOGAMIC PLANTS. 
FILICES. 
_ Spores in minute capsules (called spore-cases) , stalked, collected 
in clusters as batches (the so-called sor?) on the under-surface or on the 
margin of the leaf-like expanded branches (fronds), which are either 
conform with the barren ones or more contracted, sometimes re- 
sembling simple or branched spikes; the sori either naked or fur- 
nished with an involucre (indusium) either cup-shaped or covering 
the sorus when young, and opening on the side or at the top, or mm 
2 valves.—Main trunk usually perennial, either erect and woody, or 
more frequently reduced to a short stock, or to a creeping rhizome, 
rarely annual. Fronds radical or alternate, when young 
very 
usually rolled inwards at the top, simple or variously lobed or 
