444. 159. GRAMINE. 
interspatiis subtiliter tessellatis. Rami florentes ad nodos 
distantes gemini vel terni fasciculati, tenues (4 lin. crassit. vix 
excedentes) super basin iterum iterumque ramulosi, ramuli 
ascendo-patentes, eum internodiis brevibus, paniculas subsessiles 
laterales numerosas gerentes. Panicule multispiculifere, con- 
geste, 13 poll. long: ; axis basi cum bracteis sursum majoribus 
vaginatus; bracteæ coriacex, infime ovate, tum ovato-oblonge et 
breviter mucronate, margine ciliolatæ, superiores que ramulos 
subtendunt membranace®, lineari-oblongx, quam inferiores multo 
longiores, subpollicares, margine densius, dorso sparse hirsutul, 
multinerves, cum ligula brevissima et lamina parva triangulari 
instructe; spiculæ 3-flore. Glume steriles 1 vel 2, inferior 
bracteis superioribus similis sed paullo brevior, superior inter 
inferiorem et glumam florentem forma intermedia; glume 
florentes oblongo-lanceolatw, apice pungentes, dorso rotundato 
et densius hirsute, infima $ poll. longa; rhachille articuli 
clavati, glabri ; palea quam gluma brevior (infima semipollicaris) 
bidentula, hirsuta precipue in carinis; lodicule 3, ovales vel 
subobovate, 13 lin. longz (una autem paullo minor); ovarium et 
stylus generis. 
Huren: West (Wilson, 10A D. Herb. Kew. 
Near Phyllostachys nigra, Munro, but distinguished by the 
lexture of the leaf, which is tougher and has a more rounded 
base passing abruptly into the petiole; also by the denser 
panicles. 
15. Phyllostachys viridi-glaucescens, 4. A C. Rivière, in Bull. 
Soc. Acclimat. sér. 3, v. (1878) p. 391. 
“Without doubt a native of the north of China” (A. & C. 
Riviere, loc. cit.). 
I have seen no specimen from China; the plant is erown in 
Kew Gardens, and there are leaf-speeimens in the Herbarium. 
[Bambusa agrestis, Poir. Encycl. viii. p. 704; Munro, in 
Trans. Linn. Soc. xxvi. (1868) p. 117. 
Arundo agrestis, Lour. HL Cuchinch, p. 57. 
Curna ? (ex Loureiro). 
This is insufficiently described ; its identity and its occurrence 
in China are both doubtful. | 
