266 CLXiii. GRAMiNE^. [Dendrocalamus. 
•25 in. long, pubescent. Empty glumes I ovate small; II 
larger, boat-shaped. Flowering glumes 4, ovate truncate, or 
mucronate. Palea broad, bifid. Lodicules usually o, sometimes 
1 or 2, spatliulate. Stamens 4 to 6. Ovary ovoid haiiy; style 
simple, rarely trifid. Hab. In cultivated ground. Singapore, 
Ang Mo Kio; Tanglin (cultivated). Malacca, Bukit Sabukor 
(Derry). Penang, Batu Feringhi Road (Curtis). Disirib. Tenas- 
serim. Native name: Buluh Betong. Use: Cultivated by the 
Chinese for the edible shoots and general use. 
(3) D. pendulus RidL Journ. Roy. ds. Soc. S. Br. 44, p. 210; 
Mat. iii. 192. 
Culms 60 ft. tall or more, 3 in. through at the base, weak; 
branches long, pendulous, leafy, glaucescent when young, green 
when old, walls rather thick; internodes 9 in. long; sheaths 6 to 
9 in. long, at first covered with white woolly fascicled hairs; limb 
narrow lanceolate acute, 4 in. long. Leaves lanceolate-oblong, 
5 to 6 in. long, 75 to i in. wide, base broad; petioles thick, *13 in. 
long. Panicle of simple spikes of heads at the end of leafy branch- 
lets, heads crowded -5 in. long, with broad sheaths at base. Spike- 
lets -16 in. long, glabrous, oblong-cylindric, i-flowered. Empty 
glumes 2, ovate. Flowering glumes longer, lanceolate. Palea 
2-nerved, lanceolate. Lodicules 0. Stamens 6. Ovary short, 
conic, hairy. Hah. Dense forests along river banks, abundant 
where it occurs. Negri Sembilan, Ulu Bendol (Burkill). Selangor, 
Semangkok Pass; Ulu Gombak (Burkill). Perak at Jor; Temengoh 
River (Ridley). 
( 4 ) D. hirtellus Ridl. 
A tall weak bamboo about 40 ft. long, 2 in, through, walls thin, 
internodes long. Leaves broad oblong acuminate with a long 
point, base broad rounded, glabrous above, softly pubescent beneath, 
II in. long, 1-5 in. wide; petioles thick, *1 in. long, glabrous; ligule 
of few stiff bristles, sheath glabrous. Panicle branches pendulous, 
3 ft. long. Spikelets in dense heads *5 in. through and 1-5 in. apart. 
Bracts numerous, ovate acute, keeled. Empty glumes I lanceolate; 
II similar but longer, many-nerved. Flowering glumes III twice as 
long as glume I, mucronate; glume IV similar, longer. Palea shorter, 
lanceolate, 3-nerv^ed, pale. Stamens 6; filaments free; anthers 
oblong muticous exsert; style simple, shortly plumed. Hab, 
Johor, forest at Genuang (Ridley). 
80 . CEPHALOSTACHYUM, Munro, 
Shrubby bamboos; culms thin. Inflorescence a globose head 
(or panicle of heads), bracteate, fertile flowers mixed with imper¬ 
fect ones or empty glumes. Spikelets i-flowered. Empty glumes 
2 or 3, usually awned. Flowering glume similar. Palea thin. 
2-keeled. Lodicules 3. Stamens 6. Ovary ovoid; style long. 
Grain oblong beaked. Species 8, all the others North Indian. 
