Tas. 7947. 
ARUNDINARIA Fatoonzrt. 
Native of the Temperate Himalaya. 
Nat. Ord. Gramine®.—Tribe BaMBUsE®. 
Genus ArunpInaRIA, Mich.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 1207.) 
ARUNDINARIA Falconeri ; culmis perennibus gracilibus ad 30 ped. altis olivaceo- 
viridibus versus internodioram basin plerumque purpurascentibus. 
foliis imperfectis vaginis apice breviter attenuatis in marginibus convexis 
minute ciliolatis glabris vel primo pilosis intus supra medium venis 
transversis prominulis notatis purpurascentibus ligulis brevissimis trun- 
catis laminis parvis angustis, foliis perfectis vaginis angustis arctis ligulis 
brevibus rotundato-trancatis laminis lanceolatis acuminatis 23-3 poll. 
longis 3-4 poll. latis lete viridibus glaberrimis dense tenuiterque striatis 
venis transversis vix uillis, inflorescentiis in culmis foliis destitutis pani- 
culato-fasciculatis, spiculis in racemos basi bracteis saffultos secundum 
ramulos solitarios vel fasciculatos collectis unifloris 1 poll. longis, 
rhachilla in setam producta, glumis subsequalibus inferiore 1-3-nervi, 
superiore plerumque 5-nervi spicule dimidinm magis minusve equantibus, 
valva (gluma flurente) prominenter 7- vel sub-9-nervi superne ciliata, 
palea valvam zquante vel superante superne in carinis ciliata prominenter 
nervosa, antheris purpureis. 
A. Falconeri, Gamble in Ann. Bot. Gard. Calc. vol. vii. p. 20. 
A. falcata, Riviere in Bull. Soc. d’Acclim, 3me sér. vol. v. (1878) p. 791-797, 
fig. 60-62, non Nees. . 
A. nobilis, Mitford, The Bamboo Garden, p. 178-180, 
Thamnocalamus Falconeri, Munro in Trans. Linn. Soc, vol. xxvi. (1868) p. 34. 
This Bamboo has been in cultivation in Hurope ever since 
1847, when Ed. Madden, then a Captain in the Bengal 
Artillery, and an enthusiastic explorer of the North- 
western Himalaya, forwarded a quantity of seed to Sir 
William Hooker. It was collected by him on the Upper 
Pindari River, North-west Kumaon, in September, 1846, 
and was supposed to be the seed of Arundinaria falcata, 
Nees. Under this name it was soon introduced, mainly 
throngh Van Houtte’s establishment at Ghent, into 
the parks and gardens of western Europe, the Riviera 
and Algeria, and into the greenhouses of the climatically 
less favoured parts of Europe. It first flowered in Europe 
in 1875-1877 ; 1876 being the year when its flowering was 
almost universal, and when it flowered at Kew. In the 
Himalaya it ranges from Kumaon to Sikkim at altitudes of 
8000-10,000 feet, and it is perfectly hardy in the maritime 
parts of western Europe, the Riviera and Algeria, forming 
APRIL lst, 1904, 
