386 CLXXiii. GRAMiXE^. {Bambusetv, Gamble.) \_Arundimm. 



appressed bristles ; ligule narrow, toothed. Leaves papery, base narrowed or rounded, 

 tip thickened hirsute surmounted by a capillary bristle ; sheiith ending on one side 

 in a round shining exauricled callus, on the other in a short pointed auricle with * 

 few bristles; petiole ^vrinkled ; ligule small, hairy, ciliate.— A curious species re- 

 sembling ^. Prainn, remarkable by its long narrow sheaths; its leases resemble 

 those of Cephalostachyum, 



133, FKYZiZiOSTACKVS. Sieb, & Zucc. 



Coespitose shrubs. Stems smooth, flattened on one side, brancheg 

 fascicled at the nodes. Stem-sheaths rounded above, blade subulate. Leaves 

 jointed on the sheath, spinulose on one margin, tessellate, sheath loose. 

 Infl. oi spicate tranchlets in a leafy terminal panicle with imbricating 

 bracts. Spikelets 2-3, 1-4-fld. with a terminal imperfect rachilla jointej 

 between the fls. ; empty gls. 2-3, many-nerved, often bearing an ^^P®'^®? 

 blade; flg. gls. ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, many-nerved; palea ^*^^®^^* 

 many-nerved. Lodicules 2. Stamens 3. Oi;a;'^ stipitate, rounded, giabrou , 



style long, stigmas 3. — Species about 20, Eastern Asiatic. 



Iw p. bambusoides, Sieb. 4" Zucc. in Ahh. AJcad, MiincL iii. (1843) 

 745, t. 5, f. 3; leaves thin, mouth of sheaths with long bristles, bteua- 

 Syn. Gram. 339; Munro in Trans. Linn, Soc, xxvi. (1868) 36; -^^^^J 

 Sav. Enum, PI Jap. li. 182; Gamble Bamh. BriL Ind. 27. t. 27; m^^^ 

 The Bamk Gard. 155. P. megastachya, Steud. l. c Bambusa reticutaia, 

 Eupr. Bamh. 58. ,B. bifolia, Sieb. mss. ex Munro. 



Upper Assam; Mishmi Hills (without flowers), Gni^/A.— Distrib. Chioi^' 



Japan. . . - 



Stew* 10-12 ft., i-l in. diam., graceful, smooth, yellow, nodes gl*^^^"^\!^,ted 

 nodes short, branches semivcrticillate. Stem-slicaths 6-10 in., thm, top *^^°^V? ^jg 

 into a fibort neck then rounded and truncate, nuirgins produced to meet the ^s^^^ 

 with a few bristles; blade subulate; ligule long, toothed. Leaves :^-i Yh'^^rttf 

 oblong-lanceolate, tip setaceous, glaucous and with stiff white hairs beneatb, ^.^^ 

 5-6.pair8 ; petiole black, hairy ; sheath keeled, ciliate on one margin, ™*^!^^^jj|ng 

 bristles on a short auricle; hgule rounded. Bracts of inji. short, obtuse, sn 

 - ■ - . Svikelets 1-H in.j ^^ } ^^L^J, 



3-5 spikelets and with an imperfect blade. Spikelets 1-1^ ^"v ^i i fu.l'-nerved 

 keels ciliate; flg. gls. | in.,°ovate, acuminate, many-neiVed ; palea a a 



sheath-like, truncate, with a green cordate blade; II oblique, Tceeled, ftiW 



Description from Hougkoug specimens. 



2. P. Mannii, 



Gamble Bamh. Brit. Ind. 28, t 28; leaves thick, moti 

 of sheath nearly naked. . ^ 



Khasia Hills, alt. 5000 ft., cult, (said to have come from the Kag*^ 



Stems 15-20 ft. by l-li in. diam. ; internodes 8 in., yellow, ^t^ j. |e 

 papery, 8-9 by 1-2 in., top rounded and truncate; blade 2-3 in., «"^"^*^^^^^^^^ 

 broad, pectinate. Leaves 4-5 by J-f in., base rounded, tip ^^^""^ ^'.y^g 5pair»i 

 glabrous or nearly so, one margin spinulosc-serrate, costa prominent, '^^l |g ^foad, 

 sheath loose, ending in a narrow ciliate callus with a few bristles; l^g 

 long-pectinate. Lifl. unknown. 



134. BAMBUSA, Schreb. 



Shrubs or trees, usually large and ccBspitose, rarely .^^^ A'tess^' 

 sheaths broad, blade often triangular. Leaves shortly petioled ^ -^^jly 

 late by nervules, but sometimes by pellucid glands, sheaths 



