404 cLxxiii. GRAMiNK^. (BambusBCB, Gamble.) [Dendroealarnvs. 



depressed, stigma usually simple. Orain small, pericarp coriaceous or 

 crustaoeous. — Species 16 known. 



Sect. I. Spikelets. hard, spinesoent, crowded in spicate heads. — Leaves 

 usually narrow. 



1. D. strictus, Nees in Linnsea, ix. (1834) 476 ; leaves up to^ 10 by 

 IJ in., shortly snddenly petioled softly hairy beneath, spikelets 5-5 m. 

 hairy spinescent fertile and smaller sterile mixed, empty gls. 2 or more 

 ovate spinescent many-nerved, fig. gls. ovate tip spinescent and pubescent, 

 palea of lower 6-7-nerved between the ciliate keels, anthers apioulate. 

 Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat.iu. 421; Munro in Trans. Linn. Sob. xxvi. (1868) 147 ; 

 Beddome Fl. Sylvat. t. ccoxxv.. Forest. Man. p. coxxxv. ; Brandis For. Fl.. 

 569, t. 70 ; Kurz For. Flor. Burma, ii. S-^S, Ind. Forester, i. 346 ; Aitchis. 

 Cat. Panjah. PL 171 ; Duthie Fodd. Grass. N. Ind. 71 ; Gamble Bamh. 

 Brit. Ind. 78, t. 68, 69. Bambos atricta, Boxh. Corom. PL i. 58, t. 80. 

 Bambusa stricta, Roxb. FL Ind. ii. 193 ; Kunth in Journ. Phys. xlv. (1822) 

 148; En%m. PL i. 431 ; Buprecht Bamh. 56, t. 12, f. 56 ; Steud. Syn. Oram. 

 330 ; Dah. & Gibs. Bomb. FL 299. B. vertioillata, BottL ex Munro I. c. 

 B. pubesoens, Lodd. ex Lindl. in Penny Cyclop, iii. (1835) 357. B. Tansea, 

 Sam. ex WalL Cat n. 5038 j^.— Bambusa, WaU. Cat n. 5038. 



Dry hills of N. India, from Garwhal to Nepal and southward from the Panjab 

 to Behak, the CoNOAN, Central and S. India, Burma, and Gebat Cocos Isld. 

 (Not in Ceylon.) — Distrib. Java. 



Stems 20-50 ft. by 1-3 in. diam., hollow in moist climates, solid in dry, young 

 glaucous green, old yellowish, nodes swollen, lower often rooting, internodes 12-18 in., 

 upper branches decurved. Stem-sheaths v&Tia.b\e, lower 3-12 in., glabrous or strigose 

 with yellow-brown hairs, striate, top rounded ciliate, slightly auvicled; blade tri- 

 angular, hairy, especially within ; ligule narrow. Leases deciduous, narrowed from 

 the rounded petioled base to the twisted tip, midrib prominent, nerves 3-6 pairs 

 with interposed pellucid glands ; sheath striate hairy, callus prominent, auricle 

 short ciliate with flexuous deciduous hairs; ligule narrow, serrate. Panicle large, 

 heads dense, 1-li in., much smaller in S. Indian forms ; raohis smooth, internodes 

 14-2 in. Spikelets usually hairy. Ovari/ stipitate, turbinate, style long, stigma 

 simple feathery. Grain broadly ovoid, shining, beaked, hairy above. 



Tar. Prainiana, Gamble 1. c. 80, t. 69, fig. A.; spikelets smaller, fls. fewer, fl. 

 gls. nearly glabrous. Great Cocos Isld., PraAn. 



2. 3>. sericeus, Munro in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxvi. (1868) 148 ; cha- 

 racters of D. strictus, but spikelets silkily hairy, anther-tips obtuse. 

 Gamble Bamb. Brit. Ind. 81, t. 70. 



Behae, summit of Parus-nath, alt. 4000 ft., J. D. B., &e. 



(I should regard this as a .variety of D. strictus had it not been retained by 

 Munro & Gamble. The latter describes the empty gls. as obtuse, but they are acute 

 in the plate referred to.^J. D. H.) 



3. I>. membranaceus, Munro in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxvi. (1868) 149 ; 

 stems scurfy when young, leaves 5-10 by ^-f in. hispid above, spikelets 

 ^ in., glossy nearly glabrous, empty gls. 2 ovate obtuse or acute, fl. gls. 

 2-3 ovate mucronate glabrous margins often ciliate, anthers apicnlate, 

 Kurz For. Fl. Burma, ii. 560 ; Gamble Bamh. Brit. Ind. 81, t. 71. 



Easteen Buema, Wallich, &c. 



Closely resembles glabrous forms of D. strictus, but stem-sheaths with waved 

 hairy auricles, leaves thinner, base less rounded, grain more elongate, and grooved. 



