100 AXNALS OF THE EOYAL BOT.l.MC GAEDEX CALCUTTA,
at Peermaad in 1S87; aud leaf spechnens have been collccted by "W. A. Talbot
at the Gairaoppa Falls in N. Kauara, by myself in the Oclitcrlony Valley and on
tlie Carcoor Ghat, Nilgiris, and by J. A. Bourdillon on tlie Travaiicore Hills in 1892.
Bourdillon says that in Travancore it flowered in 1S87 to 18.S9 and died ofi, now young
seedlings at once springing up. I cannot agree with Beddome in identifying this
species with Bambusa Wightii, Munro in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxvi. I l l , which is
characterized by very glabrous leaves aud very Jong liyules. ^^^ight's plant is, I believe, an
Ochlandra, and is herein described as Ochlandra Brandisii, n. sp.
P l a t e No. 87.—Teinoslachyum WighUi, Beddome. 1, leaf- and flowcr-branch; 2,
part of flowering paaiicle—o/ nalural ske\ 3, culm-sheath—reduced-, 4, b r a c t ; 5, sjnkelet;
flowering glume; 7, palea; 8, loclicule; 9, antlier; 10, ovary with persistent lodicules,
style and stigmns; 11, caryopsis (young)—eHJojyci?. (All from my own specimens.)
3. Teinostachyuii attenuatum, Mvnro in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxvi. 143.
A medium-sized, tufted bamboo. Culms 12 to 25 ft. long, -5 to 1 in. in diameter,
tilxform-wiry at the top ; nodes bearing many branches. Culm-sheaths pale, appressed
hairy. Leaoes 3 to 6 in. long, '6 to 1 in. broad, lanceolate acuminate, rounded
at the base into a thickened -1 to -3 in. long petiole; ending above in a twisted,
scabrous, subulate point; slightly rough above, smooth and pale beneath; main vein hardly
prominent, secondary veins 3 to 4 pairs, inconspicuous, intermediate 5 to 7, rather thick,
with no transverse vcinlcts but )iues of pellucid dots between; leaf-sheaih sparingly
apprcssed-pilose, ciliate at the edges, truncate at the mouth and fringed with deciduous
ciliie; Hqitle short, glabrous, entire. Inflorescence usually in short, spiciform, leafy panicles
clustered at the nodes, the end branches sometimes prolonged with verticillate clusters of
spikelets, the clusters subtended by a smooth, mucronate bract and containing several
sterile .spikelots with a few longer fertile ones, often curved ; rachis smooth, swollen
above. SpikeUts glabrous, narrow, 1 in, long, '2 in. broad, beaiing 1 empty glume, then
2 to 3 fertile flowers, then 1 to 2 imperfect flowers ; rachilla round, smooth, thickened
above; empty glume ovate-mucronate, '3 in. long, 7-nerYed, ciliate on the edge; flowering
qlume similar but longer and 9- to 11-nerved; palea smaller than flowering glume,
2-keeled, minntely ciliate on the keels. Lodicules lanceolate, -15 in. long, 3-nerved,
ciliate at the tip. Stamens exserted, filaments long, twisted, anihcr rather short, bluntly
inucfonate. Ocary ovoid-acuminate, glabrous, produced into a long style, divided at about
I of the way up into 3 loirg plumose purple stigmas. Caryopsis attenuate at both ends,
glabrous, rostrate. Beddnme Flora Sylv. cosxxiv. IBambusa atte^Uata, Tkvaites Eniim.
Plant. Zeyl. 375.
Ceylon, in the Central Province at 4,000 to 6,000 feet; collccted by Thwaites
(No. 3255) in 1864, by T. Thomson, and by H. Trimen in Ohiya Valley, 1890.
This species is distinguished from T. Gri^thii by the shorter spikelets and ciliate
lodicules, from T. Wightii by the smaller leaves and quite different inflorescence.
P m t e No. 88.—Teinostachyim atlenuatum, Munro. 1 & 2, leaf- and flower-branohes—
of natural size-, 3, spikehts, one fertile, one sterile; 4, empty glume; 5, flowering
glume; 6, palea; 7, lodicule; 8, anther; 9, ovary with style and sii^tm—enlarged. (All
from T. Thomson's or Thwaites's specimens.)
I^^DIAN BAMBUSE/E; GAMBLK.
4. T k i x o s ï a c h t o m D u l l o o a , n. sp. Gamble.
A inoderato-sizcd or lorge tufted bamboo sometimes more or less scandent. Culms
variable in size, from 20 to 30 ft. long, 1 to 3 in. in diameter, dark green with a
few whitish hairs, whitish below the nodes, glossy when dry ; nodes little prominent ;
inteimodes 16 to 30 in. and even to 40 in. long; walls thin. Cahn-sheaths variable iu
size, according to the culms, from 6 in. long and 4 ni. broad up to 12 in. long and 10
in. broad, striate, with scattered white approssed hairs prominent above, rounded at
top aud then somewhat concavoly truncate and loosely fringed with stiff bristles; imperfect
blade narrow, subulate, recurved, very hairy witlnn, the edges convolute, 3 to 6 in,
long, -3 to -7 in. broad at the rounded base; ligule prominent, long-fimbriate. Leaoes
variable, oblong-lanceolate, acuminate ; rounded, often unequally, at the base into a rather
long -2 to in. petiole; subulately acuminate above, the point scabrous, twisted; rough
on the upper surface, minutely softly pubescent or nearly glabrous beneath, scabrous ori
both edges; main vein pale, not very prominent, secondary veins 6 to 10 pairs, intermediate
about 7, no transverse veinlets, but a few pellucid dots, which have the appear,
anco of transverse veinlets on the underside; leaf-sheaths striate, ciliate on the edges
ending in a ciliate or glabrous callus, aud fm-nished at tîie mouth with a few long, stiff
very deciduous bristles; ligule broad, long-fimbriate. Inflorescence a panicle of spiciform
branches, bearing verticils of few spikelots, subtended by long truncate bracts. Spikelets
•5 to 1 in. long, softly pubescent, those seen only containing imperfect flowers; glumes
many-nerved, hairy, aristate, convolute ; rachilla jointed and produced into a long point
above the uppemiost glume; rest not seen.
Throughout Northern and Eastern Bengal and Burma, from British Bhutan tlirough
the Assam aud Sylhet valleys and the hills between them to Chittagong and Upper
Burma.
Under this species I have brought together a great series of specimens gathered
by various collectors in different parts. These specimens fall rather naturally into
two divisions : those of large individuals with rather largo leaves, and the small ones
with small leaves, the latter being chicfly represented by the type, the only specimens
which give an idea of the character of the flowers. Thèse flowering specimens
ai-e those collected in the garden of the monastery at Hawyaw in the Katha district
of Upper Burma, in February 1893, by J. W. Oliver. Oliver says that it is a "small
reed-like bamboo" named TkaUcwaba (Burmese), and that there is a larger variety
of the same name. It is much to bo regretted that the flowers are imperfect. I have
searched aud cannot find a single fertile one, but from the spikelets, so far as they
go, the gonus seems to be this, and the species to come rather near, either to the
Ceylon T. attemiatim, or to the Burmese Cephalosiachytmi virgatuni. Indeed, when we
come to know more of the latter or obtain proper flowers of T. Dullooa, it is not
impossible that the two may prove to bo identical. Leaf specimens and culm-sheaths
in abundance have been collected; the sheaths are very constant in character and
the leaves do not greatly differ from each other. The specimens here placed therefore
consist of the f o l l o ^ d n g : - r r om the hills of British Bhutan, from the Bdno- h J
2,000 feet, collected in 1880 by E. Fuchs and in 1889 by G. A. Gammie" vern
Fogslo, paksálu (Lepcha); Toleré bans (Nepalese) and said to be used to make quivers"
from the Garo Hills, collected by G. Mann in 1881 and 1889 under the nam¡
Wadro'^, and said to be used for canying water and for making umbrellas- from the