378 CLXxiii. GRAMINE7E. (BamhasBCB, Gamble.) [Arnndinaria, 



brane below the petiole and short auricles with 5-8 twisted bristles ; Hgule short. 

 Panicle large, with slender filitbrni branches appressed at first, axils glandular. 

 Spikelets about 1 in., gl. I ^^^-i in., acute, 3-uerved, tip ciliate; II longer, more 

 nerved ; fl. gls. 3 in., acumiuaCe, 7-9-nerved, tip ciliate; keels of palea ciliate; grain 

 ~ in., red. 



L 



tt Spikeletsfev^i in sltort panicles. 



4. A. eleffans, Kurz in Jonr>u As. Soc. Beng. xlii. (1873) 248; For, 

 FL Burma, ii. 549; stems slender, internoles smooth, leaves Imear- 

 lanceolate long acuminate tessellately nerved, margins ^ carlilagnious 

 scabrid, spikelets long 7-8-tld. in a terminal interrupted panicle or raceme 

 pedicelled flattened, fl. gls. distant acuminate. Gamble Bamh. Bnt, 

 Ind, 6, t. 4. 



Uppee Assam ; Naga Hills, alt. 5500 ft., Eollo. BuuMA,Ponoshce, J. Anderson-, 

 Tenasserim and Martaban, alt. 5-75J0 ft., Kurz, &c, 



sums 12-20 ft. high by ^Vtu '^^' ^^'^»"- 5 internodes 7-9 in., flattened on one 

 side, smooth; sheaths ^ the leni'th of the internodes, papery, hispidulous, upper 4 



obovate, 2-fi(l, 2 

 of them. 



5. A. polystachya? Xxirz ex Gamble Bamb. Brit, Itid. 7, i- > 

 stems soft, leaves thin soft lanceolate acuminate with a twisted tip, roug 

 above white hairy or smooth beneath not or rarely tessellately ^^. , 

 margins scabrous ligule long, spikelets long 4-G-fld. in a large *-^j'.°^^^j^^ 

 or axillary racemose leafy panicle with papery bracts, fl. gls- ^^^ 

 ovate long-acuminate. 



SiKKiii Himalaya & the Khasia Hills, alt. 3-5000 ft., Griffi^th, Kurz, Maun, 



A small shrubby bamboo; stem'shenths unknown. Leaves 6-8 ^^ "^^"^jpal 

 base rounded or narrowed, petiole very short, midrib rather broad, P"^^,^J^j 

 nerves 5 pairs, with lines of pellucid glands between the secondary, trau ^^^^ 

 nervules few or 0; sheath greenish yellow, striate, glabrous, ending in ^.^^^^ij^uk. 

 calhis, and produced upwards to meet the lou^r striate obtuse fimbriate g ^*^ 

 Spikelets ^-yt^ in., rachilla clavate ; gls. I and II ovate, acuminate, 5-7-iie 

 kcL'led and ciliate above; fl. gls. about twice as long, 7-9-nerved, ciliate,^F«^^^ 

 longer, mucronate, tip 2-fid, l.nerved between and 1-nerved on each siu 

 ciliate keels. 



6. A. debills, Thw. Emm. JPl. Zeyl, 375; shrubby, ^J^f ^ ^e 

 branched, leaves small linear-lanceolate acute obscurely or "*^^, + g.fld., 

 tip scabrous base acute or snbtruncate, ligule short, spikelets p*^^^- ^jng 

 shortly pedicelled in a terminal short leafy panicle, fl. ^%}^^.ii fl 

 ovate mncronate. Munro in Trans, Linn. Soc, xxvi. (1868) 24i, ^ , hyiu 

 %/i'., Forest. Man.p. ccxxx. ; Tritn. Cat. Ceyl. TL 110; Gamble Bavw. 

 Ltd. 7, t. 6. 



Ceylon ; Central Province, alt. 6-SOOO ft., Thwaites, &c. (C.P. n.^ 1> .^ ^.^^^^^ 

 Stems elongate; nodes rather enlarged, internodes 2 6 in. by -r*ro 'reaves 



one or bo^ 



