382 CLXxiii. GRAMiNEiE. {BavibusecB, Gamble.) [Arun dinar ia. 



15. A. Kookeriana^ itfiuzro in Trans. Linn. Soc. sxvi. (1868) 29; 

 stems 15-20 ft. slender, noies not much swollen ringed by the base of the 

 sheath, leayes 6-12 by ^-1| in. narrowed into a swollen petiole, nerves 4-8 

 pairs with oblique transverse pellucid glands not tessellate, sheath glabrous 

 minutely ciliate, lignle long, infl, of loosely fascicled falcate bracteate 

 panicles, spikelets drooping 1-fld., fl. gh large broadly ovate 3-nerved. 

 Gamble Bamh, Brit, Ind. 17, t. 15. 



Eastern Himalaya, alt. 4-7000 ft. ; Sikkim and W. Bbotan, J. D. H., Ganimie, 

 &c. 



Sterns 15-20 coespitose, glnucous green, with white scurf when young ; older inter- 

 nodes 8 by l-U in., with a dark blueish ring at the top, often striped green and 

 yellow, walls -^^^ in. thick; stem-sheatlis often 12-24 in. by 3-6 in. broad at the base, 

 narrowed upwards and truncate ; bhide 3-6 in., lineiir ; lij^ule -^^-^ !"•» depressed in 

 the middle. Leaves glaucous green when young, uppor surface and margins scabnd; 

 sheath ending in a broad callus and thin naked membrane. Infl. loose, on separate 

 stems. Spikelets about i in., pedicelled ; gl. I ^^ in., 3-uerved, tip hairy; II i »n- 

 5-neryed, mucronate ; fl. gl. hard, involute, angled, scabrous between the nerves; 

 palea glabrous, tip hirsute. ' Grain ellipsoid. 



Sect. III. Erect shrubs. Inflorescence usually in leafy panicles; bracts 

 large. 



16, A. spathiflora, Trin, in Mem, Acad, Fetersh, Ser. VI. iii. !!• 

 (1835) 617, Sjj. Gram. Id, 350; stem-sheaths oblong tip rounded, leaves 

 2-4 at the end of the branches^, 3-5 by ^-| in. linear-lanceolate tessellate, 

 sheath loose, bracts enclosing 2-3 compressed 4-8-fld. spikelets, gh I short 

 obtuse, II long-mucronate, fig. gls. 4-5 ovate loiig-acuminate, palea y<^ry 

 short. Buprecht BamK 24, t. 2, f. 5 ; Steud, Fyn, Gram. 334 ; Brandts in 

 Ind, Forester, xii. 206; Gamhle Bamh. Brit, Ind. 17, t. 16; Miijora, 

 The Bamboo Garden, 172. A. procera, Wall, mss. Thamnocalainns 

 spaUuAovus. Munro in Trans, Linn, S'oc. xxvi. (1868) 34>,partly; Branais 

 For, Flor, 563. Barabusa macro, Wall, in Herb. Hook, {ex Mtmroh-^^^' 

 Nor. Wall. Cat, n. 5041. 



Western Himalaya; from the Suthj to Nepal, alt. 7-0000 ft., WalUcJh &c. 



A gregarious shrub 12-20 ft. high, SUm f f in. dinni., smooth. youngg«co 

 green and scurfy, older yellow or reddish-brown, nodes prominent, iuternodes b J-O -^ 

 hranchlets chiefly from the upper nodes, leafing branches with loose yellow shea - 

 3-5 by i-| in. Sfem-slitailis loose, glabrous, margins ciliate, mouth 1"^ .^"' , ^^^^^ 

 with a few stifl* bristles; lignle ^\j in., fimbriate. Leaves shortly P^!^'*^^*^ \ ijag 

 narrowed, tip acute hairy; she;ah 2-3 in., truncate, auricles bristly ci 

 narrow, ciliate; ligule long.ciliute. Ivfl. usually on leafless stems, l>r^i^ .^^^ 

 fascicled drooping, with narrow papery sheaths, 1^-3 in. long. Spikelets 1 ^'^ *! 

 pt'dicelh'd ; ra hilla long, clavate, tip hairy ; gl. I and II linear-lanceolate, g»a^^^ ^ J 

 fl. gin. i-l in. scabrous.— Distinguished from A. falcata by the tessellate leave., 

 from jaunsarcnsis by the short rhizomes and tufted liabir. 



17- A- aristata^ Gamble Bamh. Brit. Ind. 18, t. 17 ; 



stem-sheath3 



narrowed to a broad rounded top, leaver fascicled on jointed purple t^^^ 

 lets oblong-lanceolate tessellate, sheath loose keeled with a thickened ^P ^^^^ 

 callus below the petiole, bracts of infl. broad enclosing 3-5 compre ^ 

 4r-8-fld. spikelets, gl. I and II oblong-lanceolato scabrous ^"^'^^ J\^i^ 

 gls. ovate long acuminate, palea nearly as long. Tbamnocalamas sj 

 florus, Munro in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxvL (1868) 3i,]^artly. 



