296 TWO y^\y chinkse grasses. 



teretibus facicbus alternis leviter sulcatis nodis acutis glaberrimis, 

 foliis 2-3 fasciculatis 3-G poll, longia lineari-oblongis acutissimis supra 

 Icvibus lucidulis subtus pallidis opacis asperiusculis basin versus cuin 

 petiolo brevissimo marginato hirsutulis margine utroque scabro-serru- 

 latis nervia secundariis utroque latere 5 veaulis transversis subtus 

 subtilitcr depresso-tessellatis, vaginis glabris ore auriculis obtusis 

 ciliatis sctas rigidas subulatas gerentibus auctis, paniculis amplis 

 decompositis foliosis rachi primaria llexuosa inteniodiis glaberrimis 

 ramis primi ordiuis surculorum spathis vaginantibus deciduis ad 4 poll, 

 loiigis scarioso-racmbranacc'is multinervibus basi annulo dense toraentos 

 ciuctis margine ciliatis apice truncata ligula iotus auctis setis plurimis 

 coronatis lamina(iue brevi lanccolato-subulata primum inclusis, spicis 

 aa)pe aggregatis 1-2 poll, longis spiculas 6-9 gerentibus basi squamis 

 brevibus coriaceis levibus lucidis acutis stipatis, spiculis 2-3 lloris, 

 flosculis pcdicellis -} lin. longis tomentosis t'ultis summo tabescente, 

 glumis persistentibus apice appendice parva lanceolata coronatis multi- 

 nervibus apicem versus sajpe hirtellis superiore plerumque duplo 

 minore sed forma et magnitudine nou parum variantibus, glumellis 

 lanceolatis dorso birsutis inferiore acuminata 5-nervi superiore bimu- 

 cronata, lodiculis lanceolatis dense ciliatis ovarii verticem adtingeotihus, 

 staminum longe exsertorum antheris pallidis basi sagittatis 3 lin. 

 longis, ovario ovato-trigono stipite semiliueali fulto stylo superue 

 trifido. 



In insula Danorum, Whampoaj, d. 17 Martii, 1876, copiose 

 florentem legit Rev. J. C. j^evin, cui dicavi. (Herb, propr. 

 n. 19337.) 



This is at once distinguishable from P. hamhusoidcs, Sieb. ct Zucc !, 

 of which Zuccaiini has given excellent analytical figures,-'' by its much 

 smaller narrow glumes and the anthers only half as long, as well as 

 by its leaves being roughened on both edges. It is a[)parently much 

 closer to the imperfectly known P. Siauntoni, Munro,t which, however, 

 is described as possessing long meuibratiaceous bracts below the spikes, 

 and very deciduous glumes. lu the present plant, of which 1 have 

 examined a very large suite of specimens in every stage of growth, 

 whilst the glumes are persistent, it is only on the quite young herba- 

 ceous shoots or suckers that the long sheaths I have described are 

 found, the branches of the mature fully-developed intlorescence being 

 covered at their base with hard empty scales, just like those of P. bam- 

 ousoides, except that they are acute. General Munro's description of 

 this last, I may remark, was drawn up from specimens communicated 

 by myself to Kew, the n. 2073 he quotes being that of my own herba- 

 rium, my friend De Grijs, who collected it, having distributed no plants 

 witli numbers. M. Maximowicz wrote me from ^^agasaki in October, 

 1863 — " The large Bambmece do not blossom in Japan, iinless in years 

 of drought ; and the one in which Siebold gathered his Phi/Uodachys 

 lives to this d:iy in the people's memory as one of horrible sufferings.'' 

 In curious contrast to this statement, the plant just described, which 

 grows within a stone's throw of my residence, has flowered, for the 

 first time to my knowledge, in a season unparalleled in the memory of 



* Abhandl. Acad. Miinch. iii., t. 5. 

 T Jlonogr. Bambus., 37. 



