Bendrooalamus.] clxxiii. gramine^. (Bamhusece, Gamble.) 407 



9. D. calostachyus, Eura For. Fl. Burma, ii. 562; stem-sheaths 

 truncate tawny- atrigose, leaves 9-12 by 1-2J in. broadly lanceolate softly 

 hairy beneath, spikelets about J in. ovate acute faintly pubescent, empty 

 gls. 2-3 broadly ovate acute many-nerved, flg. gls. '1-6 rather longer, 

 anthers yellow mucro smooth. Gamble Bamh. Brit. Ind. 89, t. '77, 

 Bambusa calostachya, Xurz in Journ. Beng. As. Boo. xlii. (1873) 249. 



Upper Buema ; Bharao and Kachin Hills up to 3500 ft., J. Anderson. 



Stems with appresaed silvery hairs; nodes thickened, annulate. Stem-sheaths 

 truncate ; ligule narrow, subentire. Leaves shortly petioled, base rounded, nerves 

 9-13 pairs, sheaths white-ciliate, mouth truncate, callus small; ligule broad, truncate. 

 Panicle of long whip-like curved spikes ; rachis flattened on alternate sides, glaucous, 

 subpuberulous ; heads of 2-5 spikelets, bracts few small. Spikelets suboompressed ; 

 fl"- sis- with conspicuous transverse nervules ; palea 5-nerved and transversely 

 neryuled between the ciliate keels and 1-nerved outside the keels. Ovary broadly 

 ovoid, subhemispberio and long style hairy, stigma simple fringud. 



10. D. latiflorus, Munro in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxvi. (1868) 152, t. 6; 

 leaves 7-10 by 1-2 in. broadly lanceolate long-acuminate, spikelets j-f in. 

 few in a head ovate-oblong compressed, gls. many-nerved pubescent, empty 

 gls. 2 short broad acute ciliate, fl. gls. 6-8 broadly ovate suddenly narrowed 

 to a subobtnse point, margins dark colrd. ciliate, anthers pale tipped by a 

 hairy mucro. Gamble Bamb. Brit. Ind. 131, t. 117. Bambusa latiflora, 

 Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xlii. (1873) II. 250. B. verticillata, Benth. 

 FL Songk. {ex Munro). 



Uppee Buema ; Southern Shan States, King's Collector. — Distbib. China, 

 Formosa. 



A very large Bamboo. Stems tall, fistnlar, internodes short, 5 in. diam., cavity 

 large, striate, glabrous. Leaves shortly petioled, glabrous, midrib prominent, nerves 

 9 pairs, transverse nervules many obscure j sheath sulcate, glabrous or hairy between 

 the lines, ligule truncate. Fanicle large, uppermost spikelets followed by leaf-like 

 bracts 1-1^ in. long, rachis softly hairy, flattened on one side, white-ringed above. 

 Ovary ovoid from a broad base and long style hairy, stigmas 1-2. 



** Spikelets short, obtuse. 



11. D. long-ispathus, Kurz For. Fl. Burma, ii. 561 ; stem-sheaths 

 persistent papery strigose with patches of brown hair, leaves oblong- to 

 linear-lanceolate narrowed to the base rough almost white beneath, spike- 

 lets 3— J in. in small heads obtuse nearly glabrous, empty gls. 2-3 obovate 

 obtuse, flg. gls. 2-3 obovate cuouUate margins ciliate many-nerved, anthers 

 short tip mucronate black. Gamble Bdmb. Brit. Ind. 89, t. 78. Bambusa 

 longispatha, Kurz in Beng. As. 800. Journ. xlii. (1873) II. 249. 



SiLHET, Mann. Chittagong, Lister, &c. Aeeaoan, Schlich. Buema, 

 Srandis, &c. 



Stems 60 ft., leafy above only, nodes often rooting; internodes 10-24 in. by 

 3-4 diam., grey-green, walls ^ in. thick. Stem-sheaths fragile, 15-20 by 5-7 in., 

 sides parallel till near the depressed sometimes 1-auricled top ; blade 12-18 in., 

 lanceolate, dorsally hairy j ligule broad, serrate and often fimbriate. Leaves acu- 

 minate midrib thick yellow, nerves 8-10 pairs ; sheath smooth, glabrous ; ligule 

 narrow. Panicle large, sometimes leafy, of interruptedly spicate clusters i-| in. 

 broad, with hard polished bracts at the base. Spilcelets few or many-fld. Ooary 

 broadly ovoid, subacute j style rather short, stigma short. Orain ovoid, yellow, 

 beaked. 



12. !>. Sra,nAisli, Kurz For. FL Burma, ii. 560; stem-sheaths thickly 

 coriaceous white-pubescent, leaves 9-12 by 1-3 in. oblong-lanceolate softly 



