Bamhuea] olxxiii. GBAMiNEiE. (Bamhusece, Gamble.) 393 



13. B. XCingriana, Gamble Bomb. Brit. Ind. 46, t. 42; leaves linear- 

 lanceolate tessellate by pellucid glands base unequally rounded, petiole flat, 

 sheath smooth, ligule broad toothed or fimbriate, spikelets 5 in. few in 

 regularly spaced clusters ovate flattened, empty gls. 2 ovate acute 

 margins ciliate, fl. gls. 4-6 similar but larger, palea oblong keels long- 

 oiliate, anthers penicillate, ovary stipitate broadly ovoid, style short stout. 



Uppbe Burma ; Katha district, Oliver. 



Stems 60-70 ft., up to i in. diani. Leaves 10-12 by 1-2J in., tip scabrid, at 

 first sparsely hairy beneath, nerves 10-15 pairs ; petiole ^-i in. ; sheath smooth, 

 margins ciliate, callus broad shining, auricle small naked ; lignle unequal-sided. 

 Fanicle large, compound, rachis of spieiform branchlets flexnous, joints flattened 

 on one side, bracts small. Spilcelets purplish, rachilla clavate flattened. Lodicules 

 3, long-fimbriate. Stigmas 3. — Habit of a Dendrocalamus. Stem-sheaths not 

 known. 



Sect. III. Shrubby, not spinous. Spikelets ovate, flattened, many- 

 fld., long-mucronate. Lodicules 0. 



14. B. lineata, Munro in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxvi. (1868) 118 ; stems 

 reed-like, leaves large stiiJ brittle ovate- to linear-lanceolate, ligule short 

 stiffly fimbriate, infl. of spikes or panicles terminating leafy branchlets 

 and bearing bracteate clusters of often spirally twisted spikelets about i in., 

 bracts large, empty gls. 1-2 ovate long acuminate 5-7 -nerved, flg. longer 

 white-ciliate, palea narrow keels minutely ciliate, anther-tips penicillate, 

 ovary oblong pubescent. Gamble Bamh. Brit. Ind. 46, t. 43. B. Kumphiana. 

 Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xxxix. (1870) 86, Ind. Forester, i. 341. B. 

 Amahnssana, B. atra, B. picta, B. prava, Lindl. in Penny Gyclop. iii. (1835) 

 357. LelebaRumphiana, Kurz in Cat. Hart. Bogor. (1866) 20. L. lineata, 

 Humph. Serb. Amb. vi. 5, t. 1. 



Andaman Islus., Frain, in marshy coast forests. — Sistbib. Malay Archipelago. 



Stems short, always flowering, J-l in. diam., green or striped with yellow, 

 young much branched, sparsely bristly ; nodes ringed by the bases of the fallen 

 sheaths; internodes 16-24i in., rough. Stem-sheaths about 6 by 3-4 in., truncate, 

 young strigose with golden hairs ; blade usually as long as the sheath, ovate, 

 cuspidate, erect, many-nerved, base rounded then dilating into a hairy long ciliate 

 band on the sheath. Leaves very variable, up to 15 by 3 in. on the shoots, shorter 

 on the branches, dull green, pale beneath, tessellate by pellucid glands, tips and 

 margins scabrid, nerves 8-12; sheath hairy, keeled, truncate, callus minute or 0; 

 auricles long, falcate, bristly, deciduous; ligule stiffly fimbriate. Spikelets sessile; 

 bracts truncate ; rachilla short, glabrous. Stigmas 3. — A very remarkable species 

 with J?romMS-like spikelets. Kurz eunmerates 5 varieties in the " Indiail Forester." 

 (B. atra is its earliest name. — J. D. H.) 



Sect. IV. Arborescent, not spinous. Spikelets cylindric, few-fld. 

 Lodicules 0-3. 



15. B. schizostachyoides, Kurz ex Gamble Bamb. Brit. Ind. 48, 

 t. 44 ; leaves lanceolate to linear-lanceolate, sheath at first hispid truncate, 

 callus 0, auricle falcate bearing long twisted stifE bristles, ligule long, 

 panicle terminal spieiform, spikelets about J in. few in bracteate clusters, 

 empty gls. 1-2 ovate mucronate many-nerved, flg. gls. 2-3 longer rough 

 above, palea narrow keels ciliate, anthers long-apioulate, ovary elliptic- 

 oblong, style long. Cephalostachyum schizostachyoides, Kurz For. Fl. 

 Burm. 565. Melocanna ? Kurzii, Munro in Trans. Limn. Soc. xxvi. (1868) 

 134. Teinostachyum schizostachyoides, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 

 xxxix. (1870) ii. 89. 



