4423 159. GRAMINE X. 
et sparse puberule, margine ciliolate, ore longe fimbriate (fim- 
brie j poll. longs); ligula brevis, truncata, ciliolata; lamina 
late linearis vel lineari-lanceolata, ad apicem breviter acumi- 
natum attenuata, ad 5 poll. longa et 7 lin. lata basi in petiolum 
brevem (ad 3 lin. longum) subito attenuata, subter pilosula, 
margine utroque scabridula, ven: secundariw utrinque 5, inter- 
spatiis minute tessellatis. Panieule in ramulis primo foliiferis 
laterales vel ramulos breves terminantes, ad sesquipollicares, 
axis basi cum bracteis ovatis, glabris, subeoriaecis, brevibus sed 
sursum majoribus, vaginatus ; bracteæ superiores ramulos sub- 
tendentes, membranacex, longiores (ad ? poll. long), multi- 
nerves, hirsutule, cum lamina rudimentaria instructe ; ramuli 
breves congesti a spiculis 2-3-floris terminati. Gluma sterilis 
bractew supreme similis sed brevior (5 lin. longa), apice sub- 
pungens; glume fertiles oblong, superne angustate, apice 
pungentes, dorso rotundate, hirsutule, imperfecte 9-nerves, 
infima 3 poll. longa, suprema florem imperfectum fovens ; 
rhachilla puberula; palea quam gluma paullo brevior, bidentula, 
dorso hirsutula, plurinervis, carinis 2 vix prominulis ; lodieule 3 
lanceolate vel ovate, obtuse, superne ciliolatze, 1i lin. long ; 
stamina, ovarium et stylus generis. 
Hurren: Ichang (4. Henry, 8278). Herb, Kew. 
The panicle and spikelets resemble tüose of Phyllostachys 
nigra, Munro, but the habit is very different. 
9. Phyllostachys Nevinii, Mance, in Journ. Bot. xiv. (1876) 
p. 295. 
Kwanatuna: Danes Island, Whampoa (Nevin, in herb. Hance, 
19307!) Maus. Brit.; Herb. Kew. 
Var. hupehensis, Rendle, n. var. A typo recedit fimbriis 
ad vaginarum ora longioribus (sepe 23 lin. longis) et spiculis 
densius hirsutulis. 
Huren: Ichang (4. Henry, 83181). Mus. Brit.; Herb 
Kew. 
10. Phyllostachys nidularia, Munro, in Gard. Chron. (1876) it. 
pp. 773, 774. 
Phyllostachys nigra, Pilger, in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xxix. (1900) p. 227, 
non Munro. 
CHEKIANG: Taiboo Lake (Forbes!); Kranastr: Kiukiang 
