Bendrocalamus.'] olxxiti. GRAMiNEiE. (Bambusece, Gamble.) 409 



lanceolate Bhortly mncronate pubescent many-nerved, palea larger than 

 the flg. gl., keels long-ciliate with white hairs, anthers obtusely apiculate. 



XJPPEB Bvbma; Fort Stedman, Aldul Huk. 

 The softly white-liairy spikelets are diagnostic. 



139. I«[EX.OCAIiA»IUS, Benth. 



Stem semiscandent from a stout rootstock. Biem-sheaihs hard , cyli ndric, 

 auricled. Leaves large, petioled, transverse nervules 0. Panicle large. 

 Spikelets in dense heads, very small, rachiila continuous and produced 

 beyond the upper gl. ; empty gls. 2, broad, obtuse, many-nerved ; flg. gls. 

 2, bisexual but one only fertile ; palea very broad, cymbiform, membranous. 

 Lod'oules 3, large, ciliate. Stamens 6, filaments short, free, anthers obtuse. 

 Ovary glabrous, style short, stigmas 2-3 plumose. Grain very large, 

 depressed-globose, pericarp tough ; seed large, fleshy. 



m. compactiflorus, Benth. in Journ. Linn. Soc. x]x. (1881) 134; 

 Gamble Bamb. Brit. Inct. 94, t. 84. Pseudostachyum compaotiflorum, 

 £urz For. Fl. Burm. ii. 567 ; Lnd. Forester, i. t. II. fig. 13. 



Eastebn Beh&al and Burma ; from Silhet to Arracan, Martaban, and the Ruby 

 Mines district. 



Stems 15-100 ft. by J-l in. diam., rougb, spreading and arching over tall trees, 

 nodes thickened ; internodes grey green, 14-24 in. Stem-sheaths about 6 by 3 in., 

 smooth or strigose, month dilated ; blade long-acuminate, dilating into a narrow 

 dark reflexed crescentic auricle fringed with stiff bristles, hispid towards the base ; 

 ligule narrow, entire. Leaves 6-10 by 1-2 in., oblong-lanceolate, tip subulate 

 punicillate twisted, base rounded, petiole hairy, midrib narrow, nerves 8-12 pairs ; 

 sheath striate, young strigose, mouth truncate, auricle lunate reflexed ; ligule 

 narrow. Panicle interrupted, often leafy, heads ^-J in. diam., subglobose, rachis 

 flexuous pubescent, laterally flattened. Spikelets -^^ in., or rather more, obtuse or 

 truncate, 2-cleft j empty gls. ventricose; fl. gls. similar, often ciliate. Grotn 1-1^ 

 in. diam., seated in the persistent glumes. 



140. FSSUDOSTACHVUM, Munro. 



Shrubby, rootstock creeping. Slem-sheaths short. Leaves large, tessel- 

 lately nerved. Panicle with drooping spikes. Spikelets small, solitary in 

 the axils of narrow bracts, 1-ttd., rachiila produced with imperfect gls. ; 

 empty gl. usually solitary, broad, mucronate, about 7-nerved ; flg. gl. 

 similar; palea thin, convolute, 2-keeled. Lodicules 3-5, large, ciliate. 

 Stamens 6, anthers apiculate. Ovary linear-oblong, glabrous, style long 

 rigid, stigmas 2 hairy. Grain depressed-globose. 



P. polymorphum, Munro in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxvi. (1868) 142, t. 

 4 ; Gamble Bamb. Brit. lnd. 96, t. 85. 



SiKKiM H111AI.AYA, Assam, the Gaerow Hills, Munnipobe & BnBMA, 

 Griffith, &c. 



Stems up to 50 ft., by 7-12 in. diam., arising singly from the rootstock, often 

 subscandent, nodes hardly swollen, internodes 7-12 in. by 1 in. diam., at first 

 glaucous, walls very thin. Stem-sheaths shorter than the internodes, triangular, 

 truncate, strigose with brown hairs, auricle very short with a tuft of stiff bristles ; 

 blade long-acuminate in young shoots, base as broad as the tiuniate top of the 

 sheath ; ligule short. Leaves 4-14 by 1-2 in., narrowed into the stout i-J in. 



