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Arundmaria.] cLxXiii, ghamixe^. (Bambusece, Gamble.) 383 



SiKEiM and Bhotak Himalaya, alt. 9500-11,000 ft., Grijith's Collectors, 



A gregarious shrub 8-12 ft. high, very closely allied to A. spathijlora, of which 

 It 18 the Lastern representative, distinn^uished from that species iu having broader 

 tracts enclosing more spikelets, shorter leaves, a hairy callus below the longer petiole, 

 ODger mucros of the flg, gis. and a long more acuminate palea. It is readily 

 recognized by its yellow stems and reddish branchlets. The stems are leafing only, 

 or flowering only, or both. 



18. A. Talconeri, Benth, in Gen, Plant, iii, 1208; stem-sheaths 

 Oblong top narrowed truncate, leaves 3-6 by M in. oblong-lanceolate soft 

 Win petioled not teseellate but with a few pellucid glands, sheath glabrous 

 TOh czhate margins and a minute narrow ciliate callus below the petiole, 

 /^'l*® ^^^^ hairy, bracts ot large leafy panicles ovate-lanceolate, spikelets 

 ■tia.,gfK J and II oblong acute or nuicronate 3-5-nerved, fl. £rl. ovate- 



'anceolate 



en, 169. Thamnocalamus 



-uv;cuiaie mucronate 5-7-nerved, palea as long or lonsrer. Qamhle Bamh. 

 K ' ^''^: 20, t, 18 ; Mitford, The Bamboo Gard. 



P^''lf\JtooTcJ.exMunroin Trans. Linn, &c. xxvi. (1868) 1834; Brandis 

 ^or.^l, 563. Bambusa floribuuda, Munro in Herh. Trin. Coll Dublin, 

 ^ambasoides. Wall. Gat. n. 5010. 

 Temp 



T n i^^u^ Himalaya ; from Kumaou to Bhotan, alt. 7-9000 ft., WalUeli, &c. 

 nw H*''"'^^^* ^^^'^ M in. ch'am., young smooth, old scurfy. white, often striped 



1-nerv h"^ ^****^^ '^^^^^^ ^*^^ %• ^^- 5 '^eels*of palea glabrous except at the tip 

 ibggjg^"^"^!^ side.— The small slie:\th3 enclosing short sinuous racemes, and the 



or transverse nervules in the leaves characterize this species. 



^ct. IV. Climbing shrubs. Stamens 6 or fewer. 



win^"^' ^'•ainil, Gamble Bamh. Brit. Ind, 21, t. 19; stem slender 

 beWnf^® .^* by ^-J i^^ ^^^ tessellate, sheath with a glabrous callus 

 late Iro^f T^m'^* spikelets distant pedicelled on a wiry rachis, gl. I lanceo^ 

 clavit. i"?!'^^^^' II ^^ate acute 5-nerved, rig. gls. 3-6 on a Hexuous 

 GaiiJ)/. • r ^^^^ triangular acute 9-11-nerved. Alicrocalamus Pramu, 

 ''^nJoiivn. As, Sac, Bene,, lix. ii. (1891) 207, t. 7. 



^utV T^ ^h*^ ^^^'^ «^^ Jaintea Hills, nit. 3500-7870 ft., Prain, &c. 

 thick h"P l*" ^^ ^^' J«'^g, yellowish, i-^ in. diam.; nodes swollen, solid or wa Is 

 Whalf 'm ' ^^^^<^=cled. Stem-sheaths 2-G by 4-f in., narrowed to a pomt m the 

 petioled V ''" "cicular blade. Leaves 2-4 in. thin, quite glabrous base rounded 

 ixillarv'^'^'^"^^^^^ setaceous; sheath smooth; Hgule long, rounded Jf- ^^ 



«*uiarv flni f at^ujceous; sneatn smootn ; iiguic- 



fcfe iJu ;" ^*^^"^;^i^^=*I p-uiicles of spikelets in the axils of 

 ^^•I mamin' ^T- ^^^ slender; empty gls, 2-3, nodes of 



sheathing bracts, b'pike- 

 rachilla clavate flattened; 



^^l^^te K ?'^!^^^^; n tip ciliate ; fl. gls. falcate, strongly nerved; palea as long, 

 • »^^*^ls inniutely ciliate. Stamenh. 



^* ' P^^ies of which the flowers are unknown. 



t'^m-sheaths 2-8 in., imperfect blade generally recurved. 



^ I^eaves 



tessellate with transverse nervules. 



^^« tiff ted on a short rootsfocJc. 



20 A 



' ^' »*^lcrophylla, Munro in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxvl (1868) 32; 



