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forma Boryana Makino. 



Bamhusa Boryana Hort. 



Phyllostachys Boryana Bean, 1. c. p. 238. 



Phyllostachys puberula var. Boryana Makino in Bot. Mag., 

 Tokyo, XIV. (1900), p. 64 (Jap.). 



Phyllostachys nigra Boryana Nichols. 1. c. 



Nom. Jap. Unmon-chiku, Tamba-hanchikii. 



Hab. Japan, cultivated. 



forma albo-variegata Makino. 



Phyllostachys puberula forma albo-variegata Makino in 

 Bot. Mag., Tokyo, XIV. (1900), p. Gl (Jap.). 



Leaves albo-variegated. Otherwise as in var. Henonis 

 Makino. 



Nom. Jap. Shima-hachiku (T. Makino). 



Hab. Japan, ctdtivated, rare. 



Arundinaria fastuosa (Mitf.) Makino in Bot. Mag., 

 Tokyo, XXVI. (1912), p. 19, fig. 4. 



var. Yashadake Makino, 1. c. fig. 5. 



Rhizome hypogeeous, widely repent, slender, solid, terete, 

 smooth, stramineous or pale-stramineous, ^-2cm. across, 

 strongly rooting at nodes ; internodes not long, alternately 

 with a bud and a groove on one side, l^-7cm. long ; nodes 

 more or less prominent. Culm more slender than it of the 

 type, about 2-8m. high, i-2icm. across, ramose above, green 

 or more or less shaded with purple, rarely laxly blotched 

 by frostbite ; internodes longer, attaining about 36cm. in 

 length, the superior ones flatl}^ subfurrowed on one side and 

 subsemiterete below ; nodes prominent ; main branches 3 to a 

 culm-node, short ; branchlets often dense in age. Leaves few 

 to several or subnumerous to an ultimate branchlet, lanceolate, 

 acuminate, rounded or obtuse at the base, scabrous on margins 

 but ciliated towards the base, chartaceous, glabrous on both 

 surfaces, green above, subglaucous but viridescent towards one 

 edge beneath, attaining 28cm. in length and 5cm. in width ; 

 veins 6-9 on each side of the slender midrib ; veinlets finely 

 tessellate ; sheath densely ciliated on one margin, the mouth 



