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Aleuria tectoria (Cooke) Boud. On the floor beneath a leaking 
hot-water pipe, Herbarium, Mar. 1920. 
Mastigosporium album, var. muticum, Sacc. On leaves of 
Dactylis glomerata, L., 1918 (Kew Bull. 1918, p. 233). 
Mastigosporium album, var. muticum, Sacc. On leaves of 
destina, Stapf, Tropical Pits, July, 1917. (Zbid. p. 233.) 
XXXI.—FLOWERING OF PHYLLOSTACHYS AUREA. 
— J. 8S. Gamsie. 
This pretty bamboo Phyllostachys aurea, A. & C. Riviere, has 
recently flowered in this country and good specimens of the flowers 
have been received from Mr. Charles H. Cave. They came from 
gardens at Sidbury Manor, Sidmouth, Devonshire, and Rodway 
Hill House, Mangotsfield, Gloucestershire. It had previously, 
according to Mr. Bean, in ‘‘ Trees and Shrubs hardy in the British 
sles,’’ vol. 2, p. 150, flowered in the garden of the late Canon 
Ellacombe at Bitton, and with the late Signor Fenzi at Florence 
in 1876. It also flowered with Mr. S. T. Heard at Rossdohan, 
Tahilla, Kerry, Ireland, about 1905. No description of the flowers 
seems, however, to have ever been published, so that it may be 
well to put on record the following :— 
A caespitose shrub bearing erect stiff closely growing culms 
have a bluish coloured ring below them when nd when 
old a raised belt about 2 in. broad. Cataphylls straw-coloured 
with occasional brown spots, reaching 10 in. in h and 
side of the midrib, the transverse nervules closely tessellated. 
flowering culm and bearing a few leaves only but many deciduous 
spathaceous straw-coloured sheaths at the bases of the branchlets, 
the sheaths being about 3 in. long with an ovate acuminate blade 
about half as long. Spikelets 2-flowered, 3-1 in. long, glume 
anceolate, g L : 
valve, bidentate, keeled, glabrous except the tips, which are 
minutely scabrous ; stamens with very long exsert filaments; lodi- 
cules 1 to 2 when present, which is not always, 75 in. long, oblong, 
