408 CLXXiii. GEAMiNBiB. {Bambusece, Gamble.) [^Dendroealamus. 



hairy beneatli, spikelets \-^ iii. depressed ovate puberulous, empty gls. 

 1-2 broadly ovate mucronate, flg. gls. 2-4 similar few-nerved margins 

 oiliate hairy below the tip, anthers short apiculate or penicillate greenish- 

 yellow. Gamble Bamh. Brit. Ind. 90, t. 79. Bambusa Brandisii, Munro 

 in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxvi. (1868) 209. 



Burma j Pegu, Martaban Hills, and Buby-mines district, Kurz, &c. 



Siems 60-100 ft. by 5-8 in. diam., tufted; nodes slightly swollen, internodcs 

 ashy-grey, 12-15 in., walls thick. Stem-sheaths up to 2 ft. by 12-14 in., top 

 depressed; blade 6-18 in., linear-lanceolate, strigose within, decurrent in small 

 plaited auricles ; ligule J-J in., lacerate. Leaves base narrowed, petiole wrinkled, 

 midrib stout shining, nerves 10-12 witli transverse pellucid glands; young sheaths 

 pubescent, mouth with a few long cilia, callus large, glabrous. Panicle large, 

 branches whip-like, raehis densely pubescent flattened on one side, internodes 

 1-lJ in. ; beads J-f in. diam., bracteate ; palea with 3-nerved side wings. Lodicules 

 1, 2, or 0, 3-nerved, long-ciliate. Filaments short. Ovary ellipsoid, hairy, style 

 short, stigmas 2 plumose. Grain ovoid, mucronate, hairy above. — Perhaps not 

 different specifically from B.Jlagellifer. 



13. D. flagrellifer, Munro in Trans. TAnn. Soc. xxvi. (1868) 150; very 

 near B. Brandisii, but leaf-base more rounded, raohis of spikes more hairj-, 

 heads with fewer spikelets. Gamble Bamb. Brit. Ind. 91, t. 80. Bambusa 

 flagellifera. Griff. m,ss. ? B. Bitung, Seliult. Syst. vii. II. 1354. 



Tenassekim ; on Moolyet, alt. 2000 ft., Beddome. SiNftAPOKE, Ridley. 

 A little known species, probably only D. Brandisii. 



14. D. long-ifimbriatus, Gamble Bamb. Brit. Ind. 92, t. 81 ; leaves 

 12-14 by 2-3 in. oblong acuminate, auricles of sheath long falcate stiffly 

 ciliate with curved bristles, spikelets very small glabrous, empty gls. 

 broadly ovate striate, flg. gls. 1-2 ovate acute keeled often mucronate, 

 anthers short apiculate. 



Burma ; in the extreme south of the Mergui district (Herh. Calcutt.). 



Leaves very large, base rounded unequal, petiole J in. wrinkled, pale and smooth 

 beneath, midrib hairy beneath, nerves 12-18 pairs, transverse nervules of pellucid 

 glauds; sheath shining, callus narrow; ligule short, very hairy. Panicle large, 

 branchlets solid, short ; racbis slender, flexuous, glabrous ; heads (young only seen) 

 bracteate. Ovary ovoid, glabrous, style hairy, stigma plumose. — An imperfectly 

 known species, best distinguished by the falcate long-fringed auricles of the 

 leaves. 



IMPBRPECTLY KNOWN SPECIES. 



16. D. Parishii, Munro in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxvi. (1868) 149 ; panicle 

 of globose interrupted dense heads, spikelets about | in. ovoid subobtuse 

 nearly glabrous compressed, empty gls. 1-2 ovate acute many-nerved 

 ciliate, flg. gls. 2-3 similar glabrous, upper mucronate teesellately nerved 

 ciliate, anther tip obtusely acute. Brandis For. Fl. 670; Gamble Bamb 

 Brit. Ind. 93, t. 82. 



The Panjab Himalaya, Parish. 



Flowers nearest D. HookeH (of which it is possibly a planted specimenV differine 

 in the glabrous gls. and obtusely acute anthers. r /, & 



16. D. CoUettianus, Gamble Bamh. Brit. Ind. 93. t 83- heads of 

 spikelets i-1 m. diam. bracteate with 6-12 fertile and a few sterile fls 

 raohis pubescent, spikelets j-f in. soft white-pubescent, empty gls 2 ovate 

 acute many-nerved midrib thickened, flg. gls. 2-4 and an imperfect ovate- 



