tall clumps of great beauty. It seems to be monocarpic, 
dying after seeding. 
The specimen from which the drawing was made was 
communicated by J. C. Hawkshaw, Esq., of Hollycombe, 
Liphook, Hants, where five or six plants, all originally 
taken from one, flowered last spring. The sheath or 
‘“‘imperfect leaf,” however, was added from a specimen 
at Kew, received as A. nobilis from Lord Redesdale. 
A more complete account of the introduction of this 
bamboo, and the characters distinguishing it from A. falcata, 
Nees, with which it has long been confused, will be 
published in the Gardeners’ Chronicle. 
Descv.—Perennial, monocarpic. Culms slender, tallest 
thirty feet high, olive green, with a tinge of purple, par- 
ticularly towards the base of the internodes, without any 
waxy bloom. Imperfect leaves of the young culms more or 
less purplish, shortly attenuated at the upper end with 
convex, minutely ciliolate margins, otherwise glabrous, or 
soon glabrescent; transverse nerves raised on the inner 
side ; ligules short, truncate ; limb small, subulate. Perfect 
leaves lanceolate, acuminate, bright green, glabrous, 
usually edged with purple, contracted at the base into 
a short purplish petiole ; ligule short, rounded or truncate, 
purplish, Inflorescences on leafless culms, forming large, 
loose, compound panicles, bearing solitary racemes or 
clusters of racemes of spikelets on slender branches, each 
raceme being supported by several bracts, and resembling 
a 5-7-flowered spikelet. Spikelets about one inch long, 
one-flowered, with a bristle-like production of the rhachilla, 
bearing a rudimentary floret. Glwmes about half the 
length of the spikelet, sub-equal, lower one- to three-, 
upper usually five-nerved ; valve (flowering glume) oblong- 
lanceolate, prominently seven- or nine-nerved, with ciliate 
margins near the tip; pale as long as or longer than the 
valve, with the keels ciliate near the tip, and a pair of 
prominent nerves on each side between the keel and 
margin. Anthers purple. Lodicules ciliate. Style filiform, 
longer than the three plumose stigmas.—Otto Stapf. 
Fig. 1, i : 
shonth ofthe laf reprovouted is hp Uninet 
4, partial inflorescence, consisting of six spikelets ; 5, spikelet; 6, upper glume; 
7, lower glume; 8, valve; 9, palea; 10 2: - ; ae 
erleged osenck Ge. © ; 9, palea; 10, anther; 11, lodicule ; aed pistil —all 
