410 159. GnAWMINEF. 
acuta, multinervis, dorso rotundata et scabridula, pollicaris vel 
paullo longior; palea quam gluma paullo vel vix brevior, 
angusta, multinervis, dorso in parte superiore precipue in 
carinis geminis approximatis scabridula, apice bidentula; lodi- 
cule lineari-lanceolat:e, acute, 25 lin. longæ ; ovarium pedicel- 
latum, napiforme ; stylus longus diu persistens. 
CnkKrANG : Ningpo Mountains (Faber ). Herb. Kew. 
Resembles Phyllostachys Stauntonii, Munro, in the prominent 
ligule and long fimbrie of the leaf-sheath, but differs in the 
much coarser-looking inflorescence. 
4. Phyllostachys flexuosa, A. 4 C. Rivière, in Bull. Soc. 
Aeclimat. sér. 3, v. (1878) p. 758. 
Stated by the authors to have been received by the Paris 
Société d'Aeelimatation from the cold parts of China. It is 
apparently near Phyllostachys Neviniz, Hance. 
l have seen only leaf-specimens from plants grown in Kew 
Gardens. 
5. Phyllostachys Henryi, Rendle, n. sp. 
Frutex 20-pedalis alta; rami quadrangulares, glabri. Foliorum 
vagine in ramulis floriferis glabra, leves, straminem, ? poll. 
longs, ore fimbriatz (fimbrie 12 lin. longe); ligula brevis, 
truncata; lamina anguste lanceolata, acuta, 12-22 poll. longa, 
4 ad vix 2 poll. lata, in petiolum brevem attenuata, margine 
scabridula, ven seeundarie utrinque 4, interspatiis minute 
tessellatis. Panicule dense, pollicares, ramulos ultimos termi- 
nantes et a foliis supremis geminis approximatis velut cum 
spatha vaginate; rhachis pilosula, brevis, ramulosa, bractew 
inferiores subfoliacez cum lamina breve acuta instruct, supe- 
riores membranacex, lanceolate, acute ; spicule cirea 5, sub- 
sessiles, bifloræ, flos superior imperfecta. Gluma sterilis inter 
bracteam prsecedentem et glumam fertilem forma intermedia, 
lanceolata, acuta, multinervis, superne sparsius hirsutula; fertilis 
7 lin. longa, lanceolata, apice pungens, dorso rotundato hirsu- 
tula, eum venulis parallelis utrinque 6 haud prominulis; palea 
paullo brevior (6 lin. longa), multinervis, carinis approximatis, 
dorso minute hirsutula, apice bidentula; lodicule 3, subequales, 
lanceolate, acute, 13 lin. longo»; ovarium pedicellatum ; stylus 
in stigmata 3 plumosa superne divisus. 
