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mulos amplectans glabra bicarinata, (carinis a marginc 3 nun. distantibus), a 

 basi usque ad medium fissa apicc baud fissa. Vagina ramuli (vel perula) ad 

 basin ramuli foliiferi 2-3-seriatim sita, supcrrima (intima) busi ramulum firme 

 amplectaus elongato-elliptica 9-10 mm. longa 5 mm. lata utraquc pagine glabra 

 apice rotundata ad sum mum cuspidata, cuspide ^ mm. longa, intus nitida mar- 

 gine interdum ciliolata. Eamuli foliiferi graciles, nodiis prominentibus pul- 

 villis superior! bus et inferioribus 1-2 mm. so distantibus, superioribus quam 

 inferiore plus prominentibus, latere uno late sulcati vel subplani glabri. Folii 

 vaginella '25-30 cm. longa 1-1^ cm. lata extus subglabra latere fisso imbricata 

 ciliata, ore obliquo dense hirsute; seta3 auriculares (vel pili auriculares) 6mm. 

 Ionga3 scabra3 utroque latere oris 5-10 dispositse ; ligula cylindrica 2 mm. longa 

 ore denticulata extus hirsuta intus glabra latere uno fisso so imbricate ; folii 

 lamina lanceolata 10-12 cm. longa 17 mm. lata apice acuminatissima basi 

 cuneato-attenuata ad petiolum abeuns, margine latere uno aristato-denticulata, 

 latere uno baud denticulata integra, supra glabra, subtus basi ad costas hirsuta ; 

 nervi secundarii 5-6-parii, nervuli inter secundarios 9 ; tessellre 28 in 5 mm.: 

 denticulis 7 in 5mm.; petiolis 5mm. longis 1| mm. latis glabris. 



HAB. In partibus mediis Formosa3 ubique culta. 



The present plant is one of the most abundantly planted species of the 

 Bambusacete in the middle part of Formosa. The species was regarded for 

 some time past to be identical with Pliylloslacliys bambusoides SIEU. et Zucc. 

 The first botanist who recorded our plant under the same name from Formosa is 

 E. HACKEL. In 1904, in his Supplementa Enumcrationis Graminum , this emi- 

 nent authority reported " *P. bambusoides SIED. et Zucc. in Abh. Acad. Miinch. 

 III. p. 745, in montibus prope Kelung, FAURIE 765" with a note "die mit * be- 

 gleichneten Arten und Varietaten sind fur die Flora der betreffenden Lander 

 neu." In 1905, Professor MATSUMURA, referring to HACKEL'S paper, mentioned 

 the occurrence of the species in Formosa in his Index Plantarum Japonicarum 2) . 

 Later on, in 1906, when I was working our Enumeratio Plantarum Formosa- 

 narunr ) in conjunction with the said professor, I examined one of the specimens 



1) HACKEL, E. Suppleinenta EnunierationLs Granunum Japonic, Formosoe, Corea?, in Bull. 

 Herb. Bois. VI. (1904) p. 529. 



2) MATSUMURA, J. Index Plantarum Japouicarum II. -1, p. 92. 



3) MATSUMURA, J. et HAYATA, B. Ennmeratio Plantarum Formosanarum, p. 54'J. 



