438 159. GRAMINER. 
7-nervis, 23 lin. longa; florentes dissite (rhachille articuli 
pilosuli), late ovate, obtuse vel breviter acute basi rhachillam 
amplectantes, super basin cariuatie, 7-nerves, pilosule precipue 
ad marginem, gl. infima 4 lin. longa, palea brevior (31 lin. longa) 
obtusa, in carinis et ad latera puberula; lodicule ovate, sub 
apice fimbriate ; ovarium glabrum ; stylus brevis in stigmata 
tria plumosa solutus.  Caryopsis oblonga, brunnea, glabra 
13 lin. longa, eum basi styli persistente coronata. 
Huren: Fang, forms scrub on top of highest mountains, 
7700 to 9600 ft. (Wilson, 1887!). Herb. Kew. 
Approaches Arundinaria elegans, Kurz, from further India, 
but differs in the effuse panicle, the markedly unequal barren 
glumes, and the blunter lowering glumes. 
3 
l. Fargesia spathacea, Franchet, in Bull. Soc. Linn. Paris, 
1893, p. 1067; Pilger, in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xxix. (1900) 
p. 220. 
SZECHUEN: mountains in Tehenkeoutin district (Farges, fide 
Franchet). 
1. Phyllostachys bambusoides, Sieb. 4 Zuce. in Abh. Akad. 
Wiss. Münch., Math.-phys. Class. iii. (1843) p. 746, t. 5. fig. 3; 
Munro, in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxvi. (1870) p. 86; Pilger, in Engl. 
Bot. Jahrb. xxix. (1900) p. 227; Mig. in Ann. Mus. Bot. Lugd.- 
Bat. i. p. 284; Franch. et Savat. Enum. Pl. Jap. ii. pp. 182, 
605; Hack. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. vii. (1899) p. 718; Gamble, 
Bamb. Brit. Ind. p. 27, et in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vii. p. 386. 
CirrNA : without locality (De Montigny!); Foxten: Amoy 
(De Grijs, in herb. Hance, 2073!); HurEn : Nanto (A. Henry, 
3867, 4405, 4420, 7900! Wilson, 930 ). Mus. Brit.; Herb. 
Kew. 
Japan, Assam. 
2. Phyllostachys congesta, Rendle, n. sp. 
Suffrutex vol frutex; internodia semiteretia, glabra. Foliorum 
vaginz (in ramulis floriferis) glabrze, striatulz, ad sesquipollicares, 
ore fimbriis ad 3 lin. longis instruetz; ligula brevis, truncata, 
ciliolata; lamina lanceolata, acuta, ad 31 poll. longa et $ poll. 
lata, basi rotundata, breviter petiolata, margine scabridula, ven; 
sccundarie utrinque 4-6, subter vix prominule, interspatiis 
