406 CLXXiii. GRAMiNE^. (Sambusece, Gamble.) [^Dendrocalamus. 



Stem-sheaths glabrous or with patches of apprcssed hairs, tip truncate, auricles acute ; 

 blade lanceolate, acute, with a small glabrous triangular point on each side, often 

 12 in., glabrous, margin incurved, with black bristles at the base witbin ; ligule 

 \ in., smooth, entire. Leaves variable, small on side branches, up to 15 by 25 in. 

 in new shoots, base rounded shortly petioled, tips scabrous twisted, margin finely 

 serrate, midrib very narrow, nerves 6-17 pairs with nervules of pellucid glands ; 

 sheaths glabrous above, below clothed with white appressed stiff hairs, subkeeled 

 below the shining callus ; ligule broad. Panicle very large, branches scabrous and 

 white-pruinose, furrowed on one side ; internodes 1 in. or less, thick, fistular, scabrid j 

 heads hemispheric, i-li in. diam. ; spikelets usually all fertile, surrounded with 

 rounded scarious bracts. Ovary subglobose, hairy, style long, stigma 3-fid feathery. 

 Qrain broadly ovoid, beaked, glabrous or hairy above. 



7. D. patellaris, Oamlle Bamh. Brit. Ind. 86, t. 75 ; stem-slieaths 

 long cylindrio margins above with a broad membranous fimbriate wing, 

 leaves 8-16 by 1-4 in. lanceolate base narrow, spikelets depressed-ovoid 

 obtnse, gls. all orbicular cuspidate many-nerved and palea tomentose 

 within, empty gls. 1-2 membranous, flg. 3-5, anthers purple tip conical 

 hairy. Bambusa patellaris, Kurz in Serb. Galcutt. 



SiKKiM Himalaya; below Tonglo, alt. 4000 ft., ^mrfecsoB, &o. Naga Hills, 

 Mamn. 



Stems 20-3T ft. by l-lj in. diam., dull green, striate, nodes with a hairy belt, 

 internodes 12-18 in., walls thin. Stem-sheaths very persistent, 10—13 in. by 3 in. 

 broad, sparsely strigose, glabrous witliin, narrowed in upper third to a truncate top, 

 margins winged for 1-2 in. ; limb 6 in., lanceolate ; ligule tringed. Leaves per- 

 sistent, petioled, variable, soft, tip twisted scabrid, midrib stout, nerves 8-10 pairs ; 

 sheath striate, keeled, truncate, or produced into a narrow callus, margins fringed ; 

 ligule very large, fimbriate. Panicle very lai'ge, rnchis of branches rough, fistular; 

 heads distant, distichous, |-1 in. diam., bearing hard shining bracts. Spikelets 

 many, dark brown, rachilla produced with a terminal imperfect gl. Lodicules or 

 2, narrow, long-ciliate. Ovary ovoid, style hairy, stigmas 3. 



Sect. III. Spikelets few, in small heads, many sterile. 



* Spikelets long, ovate, acute. 



8. D. g-ig-anteus, Munro in Trans. Linn. 80c. xxvi. (1868) 150; 

 stem-sheaths very large nearly glabrous, leaves np to 20 by 4 in. oblong 

 young hairy beneath, spikelets i in. ovoid acute spinescent piiberulous, 

 empty gls. ovate mucronate striate, fl. gls. 3-6 thin mncronate many- 

 nerved, anthers acuminate. Kurz Ind. Forester, i. 346 ; Gamble Bamh. 

 Brit. Ind. 88, t. 76. Bambusa gigantea, TFaW. Co.^. Bot. Gard. Cole. 79 ; 

 Voigt Sort. Suburb. Dale. 719. 



Tenassekim, the Malay Peninsula, and Pbnans (cult, in Assam and elsewhere 

 in India). 



Stems 80-100 ft. by 8-10 in. diam., branched above, nodes hairy, internodes rather 

 short, grey-green, young with waxy scurf, walls thin. Stem-sheaths 20 in., as 

 broad at tlie base, deciduous, tbinly strigose with golden hairs, top depressed j blade 

 5-15 by Si in., decurrent into glabrous stiff brown wavy auricles, narrowed above 

 into a short point ; ligule 2-5 in., stiff, black, margin serrate. Leaves cnspidately 

 acuminate, tips twisted, young hairy beneath, midrib strong, nerves 12-16 pairs, 

 with pellucid cross bars. Panicle very large, branchlets slender curved ; heads up 

 to 1 in. diam. ^1 in. apart. Spikelets sometimes all flowering, rachilla produced 

 with an imperfect gl. Ovary ovoid and long style hairy, stigma simple. Gra'n 

 oblong, obtuse, hairy above. 



