Gephalostaehyu7n.] clxxiii. gbamine^. {Bamhusece, Gamble.) 413 



parallel, top concave with sub-acute triangular glabrous auricles ; blade 4-5 by J-J- 

 in., subulate; ligule broad. Leaves glabrous, base cutieate or rounded, periole 

 wrinkled, midrib pnle prominent, nerves 8-18 pairs, pellucid dots distant ; sheath 

 striate, margins ciliate produced up to the broad ligule ; callus broad, thick, emargi- 

 nate. SpikeleU glabrous, empty gls. ovate-lanceolate, glabrous, long-awoed; flg. 

 gls. acuminate, awn shorter ; palea obtuse, tip hairy, nerves reticulate j rachilla 

 shortly produced. Lodicules 3-nerved. Ovary ovoid, style long flattened, stigmas 

 2 short plumose. Grain broadly ovoid, stipitate, carved above, beaked, pericarp 

 crustaceous. 



4 C. Fuchsianum^ Gamble Bamh. Brit. Ind. 107, t. 94; stem- 

 sheaths thin top deeply concave with a bristly fringe in the sinus, leaves 8-14 

 by 2-4 in., ovate-lanceolate, head 2^ in. diam., simple globose or compouud 

 elongate and lobed, spikelets f-1 in. glabrous sterile and fertile mixed with 

 awned bracts, palea 2-fid anther tip apiculate or forked. 



Bhotan and the Duphia Hills, alt. 6-8000 ft., Fuchs, Lister, Gammie, &c. 



Arborescent, semi-scandent ; stems small, soft, thin-walled, pale, branches 

 whorled. Stem-sheaths 12 by 4 in., strigose with light brown hairs, siiles nearly 

 p;irallel, margins reticulately nerved, young cylindrio ; blade in the base of the 

 sinus, 6-8 in., subulate, pubescent below ; ligule small. Leaves cuspidately acuminate, 

 base angled or rounded, midrib shining, nerves 7-10 pairs, tessellate by pellucid dots ; 

 sheath soft, margins thickly long-ciliate, auricle elongate thickly clothed with white 

 bristles -^-^ in. long ; ligule moderate, ciliate. J^mpty gls. ovate, loug-awned, gldbrous, 

 17-19-nerved ; flg. gl. longer, awn shorter, 21-23-nerved and cross-nervuled ; palea 

 pubescent, 2-keeled and 5-6-nerved on each side ; rachilla shortly produced. 

 Lodicules 3-5-nerved, ciliate. Ovary narrowly ellipsoid, style thick, stigmas 2 

 short. Grain as in C latifoUum, but tip more rounded, pericarp crustaceous. 



** Spikelets in panicled or spicate heads orfaseiclea. 



5. C. pergracilej Munro in Trans. lAnn. Soc. xxvi. (1863) 141 ; 

 stem-sheaths very short 2-aaricled strigose with black deciduous hairs 

 afterwards polished, leaves 6-14 by 1-2^ in. liuear-lanceolate rough on 

 both surfaces, spikelets ^— | in. diam. bracteate clusters forming filiform 

 drooping spikes, gls. 3-4, empty gls. 0, lower 1-2 sterile, fertile solitary 

 densely hairy with a terminal sterile, palea long 2-fid, anthers obtuse 

 purple. Kurz For. Fl. ii. 564 ; O-amble Bomb. Brit. Ind. 108,- 1. 95. 



Thi'oughout BuKMA, Assam, The Nag-a Hills and Chota Nagpoee. 



Arbori-ons, deciduous, litems 30-40 ft. by 2-3 in. diain., tufted, erect, glaucous 

 whitish below the scarcely thickened nodes ; internodes 12-18 in. , walls very thin. 

 8tem-sh'eathsi-S by 6-8 in. ; blade 2 in., densely hairy within, decui-rent in a waved 

 fringe bordering the top of the sheath and fringed auricles j ligule very narrow. 

 Leaves thin, base rounded or cuueate, subglaucons beneath, midrib conspicuous, 

 nerves 7-13 pairs, sparingly tessellate ; sheath glabrous, mouth anricled, callus small 

 ciliate ; ligule very narrow. Panicle large ; heads 1^-2 in. apart, bracts small 

 chaffy, racbis wiry. Lodicules narrow, tip ciliate. Ovary smooth, base subglobose, 

 narrowed into a trigonous style, stigmas 2-3 stout. Grain J in., obovate-oblong, 

 grooved on one side, beak as long as itself. 



6. C< flavescens, Kurz in Jowm. As. Soc. Beng. xlii. (1S73) ii. 252, 

 For. Fl. Burm. ii. 564; stem-sheaths short, top triangular truncate 

 smooth or strigose with white or pale brown hairs, leaves 3-6 by ^J in. 

 linear, sheath with narrow auricles, spikelets ^ in. long linear acuminate 

 hairy, empty gls. 1-2 ovate-lanceolate mucronate hairy 7-9-nerved, fl. gl. 

 solitary similar, palea 2-mucronate, anthers obtuse or acute yellow. 



