ANNALS OF THE EOYAL BOTAKIC GARDEN, CALCUTTA.
scabrous; main vein thick, proaiment, yellow, shming beneath, secondary Teins 8 to 10
on either side, not prominent, intermediate 6 to 7 ; Uaf-sheaths smooth, glabrous, somewhat
produced at the mouth, and sometimes bearing a rounded naked auricle on one side;
tiauU narrow, usually fringed, hifiarescmee a large panicle of interruptedly spicate clusters
of spikolcts, sometimes leafy; racbis fle.^uo8e, flattened on alternate sides, -0 to 1-5 in.
between clusters, glaucous-green, sometimes rough. SpJceUti in heads sometimes few-flowered
and -2 to "3 in. broad, supported by hard polished bracts, sometimes many-flowered
and -5 to -T in. broad; blunt, nearly glabrous, -2 to -3 in. long; empli/ glmites 2 to 3,
obovate, blunt, with short racbillio between; flowers 2 to 3, fertile; Jlmermg ¡jlmne
blunt, obOYate, cucullate, oiliate on the edges, many-ncrTed; falea oval, truncate, faintly
keeled, 2-nerved between the keels, faintly pubescent, Stamens short; anther yehow,
short, ending in a black mucronate point; fibmati short, Oeanj broadly OToid, somewhat
acute, hairy, ending in a rather short s f j j h and short purple styma. Cari/ofdi ovoid,
somewhat oblique, yellow, surmounted by a beak formed by the base of the style.
BAMBDSA LOKGISPATIIA, Sure in Journal As. Soe. Beng. xK. 249.
Eastern Bengal and Burma, chiefly along streams. Sent from Sylhet by G. Mann
in 1889; collected in Ohittagong by J. L. Lister, 187S, b y myself in 1879 and 1880,
and by E. Ellis in 1885; in Arracan by W. Schlich; and in Burma by Brandis
(1862); Kmz (1871); P. J. Carter (1891) and others.
Tins handsome specics is at once recognized by its long fragile papery sheaths and
by the l a r . e panicles of small flower beads and blunt spikelets. It comes nearest to
I ) namiUouu in its general characters, but is easily rccognized therefrom. It flowered
in Ohittagong in 1876 (Lister) and 1879-80 (Gamble) and in Burma m 1871
(Kuiz) and 1891 (Carter). It is known locally by the names Khang (Bengah),
Ora (Arracanese) and Wa.,a and Talagu (Burmese), the name • Wa-ga' meanmg ' strngmg
bamboo,' for the hairs on the sbeaths are especially irritating. It has been mtrodueed
into the Western Peninsula and cnltiyated at Calcutta, in Malabar, etc., but the culms
are not very strong, and as a building material it is generally inferior to many
other kinds.
PLATE No. li.—Dendneahimm loiigiipathus, Kni-z. 1, leaf-brancli; 2, part of flowerpanicle—
o/ natural sine; 3, c u l m - s h e a t h - , W a c i i i; 4, spikelet; 5, flo»er opened out; 6,
palea; 7, anther; 8, ovary and style; 9, caryopsis-<«¡<.^¡,«4 (All from Kurz' Burma
specimens.)
11. DENDROCALAJIUS BRANDISH, Kurs For. Fl. Burma ii. 560.
A large, evergreen, tufted bamboo. Cahtis ashy-grey to greenish-grey, 60 to 120 ft.
high, 5 to 8 in. in diameter, shghtly branched below, ,more so above; nodes slightly
swollen, lower ones with rootlets; aleriiodei 12 to 15 in. long, walls thick, (hlm-iliealhs
like those of D. gigantaus, thick, coriaceous, up to 2 ft. long, 12 to 14 in. broad, minutely
white pubescent on the back, otherwise glabrous, rounded depressed at top; imptrfect
m i e linear-lanceolate, 6 to 18 in, long, 3 to 5 in, broad, recurved, appressed-hairy within,
rounded at the base and again decurreut on the sheath in small plaited auricles which
do not roach its edge; ligule '5 to -7 in, broad, deeply lacerate. Learii oblong-lancoolate,
9 to 12 in. long, 1 to 2 in. broad, somewhat narrowed at the base and decurrent
on a short wrinkled" petiole; ending above in a subulate twisted point; glabrous above,
softly hairy beneath; main vein thick, shining, secondaiy veins 10 to 12, intermediate
INDIAN BAMBUSEiE; &AMBLE, 91
about 6, the pellucid glands forming apparently transverse veinlets; leaf-sjteaths striate,
pubescent when young, ending in a lai'ge glabrous callus, and produced at the mouth
where furnished with few long deciduous ciliaj; ligule long, conspicuous in young branches,
acuminate, iimbriate especially on one side, in older ones truncate. Injloresceuec a
huge, much-branched panicle, with long, spicate, flagelliform branches, bearing bracteate_
heads -5 to -7 in, in diameter, of many small spikelets, the ends of the branches bearing
only lanceolate bracts; raehis densely pubescent, flattened on one side, segments 1 to
1-5 in, long. Sjiikelets -2 to -3 in long, nearly as broad, ovate, depressed, minutely
pubescent; empty glumes 1 to 2, broadly ovate, mucronatc, nearly glabrous; flowers 2
to 4; flowering glume similar, prominently few-nerved, ciliate on the edges, hairy near the
t i p ; palea oblong, acute or bi-mucronate, ciliate on the keels, side wings narrow,
membranous, 3-neiTed. Lodieules 1 or 2, lanceolate or spathulate, 3-nerved, loug-ciliate,
often wanting. Stamens exscrted; anthers greeaish-yellow, short, broad, apieulate or
penicillate ; filamenii short, thick at first. Osanj ellipsoid, hairy ; style short, ending
in a thicli club-shaped plumose stigma, or dividing into two plumose stigmas; stigmas
pui-ple. Canjopsis ovoid, -l to -2 in., hairy above, tipped with the persistent style,
pericai'p crustaceous. BASIBDSA BEANDISII, Munro in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxvi. 109.
Tropical forests of the eastern slopes of the Pegu Yoma and of the Martabau
hills up to 4,000 ft., extending northwards to the Ruby Jlines district, chiefly on
calcareous rocks. Collected by Brandis in 1862, by Km-z in 1871 and by J, W.
Oliver in 1890 and 1894 (on the MogSk road, Ruby Mines district, 3,000 ft.)
This splendid bamboo is often confused with the somewhat similar D. <ji(janteus
and, like it, is sometimes called Waho (Burmese). It is also known as Kyellowa, waya,
•wapiju, (Burmese), Wakay (Karen). It is easily recognized from D. giganleus by the
much smaller spikelets, and culms which, though not so large in diameter, have thicker
walls. The culm-sheaths are vci-y similar. It so much resembles D. fiagellifcr that I
am of opinion that the two may provo eventually to be one species. D. Brandisii
has fewer spikelets in the heads and a rather more haiiy rachis, with the 'leaves
more rounded at the base, otherwise I find no difference. Mum-o, who noticcd tlie
similarity, says D. fiagelUfer has no lodieules, but I have found them, although thev
certainly are not common. J. W. Oliver says it is used for building. It is said to
flower sporadically and not to die off after flowering; but Oliver says that flowering
clumps which ho has observed showed every appeai-ance of being about to die.
PLATE NO. Id.—Dendrocalamus Brandisii, Kurz. 1, leaf-branch; 2, part of
flowcr-panicle—o/ natural size-, 3, culm-sheaths—Hiwe/i reduced-, 4 & o, leaf-sheaths and
ligules; 6, spikelet; 7, flowering glume; 8, palea; 0 & 10, lodieules; 11, a n t h e r ; 12,
ovaiy and stigmas; 13, caiyopsis—eft/ar^it? (Nos. 3 and 4 from J. W. Oliver'b sjieeimen;
rest f r om Km-z' specimens.)
1 1 . DENDKOCALAJIUS FLAGELLITER, Trans. Linn. Soe. ssvi. 150.
A tall bamboo. Culrm tall; intemodcs of young stems faiinose. Leaves large,
oblong-acuminate, 10 to 14 in. long, 1-5 to 2-3 in. broad, glabrous above, except the
minute scabrous teeth on the veins towards the margin, rough below, sometimes with
long han-s on the midrib, edges scabrous; attenuate at the baso into a -2 to '3 in
petiole which is sometnnes scabrous-hirsute, ending above in a twisted scabrous point •
ANN. EOY. BOX. GABD, CALCUITA, VOL. T I I .