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peak near the Teesta river, conspicuously visible from Darjeeling. 
On the label it is called ‘Mainamuho,’ but Munro evidently ha 
European spelling of the mountain’s name. ‘The plant is quite 
distinct from A. spathiflora, Trin., of the North-western Himalaya. 
The high-level form is represented in the Kew Herbarium by 
some of the other specimens which Gen. Munro has quoted. They 
are : 
(1) that collected by T. Thomson in woods above the Islumbo 
Pass in Sikkim on Oct. 13, 1857. Munro gives the altitude of the 
locality as 11,000 ft. It was from stunted plants little more 
(3) that collected by Sir J. D. Hooker at Yalloong, 10,000 ft. in 
Kastern Nepal, Vern. ‘ Pat-hioo. It bears no flower and has 
slender geniculate branchlets, pubescent leaves up to 10 cm. long 
and scarcely 1 cm. broad. 
These are the chief specimens quoted by Munro, and it seems 
quite evident that Thomson’s Islumbo Pass flowering specimen is 
the real type of Arundinaria racemosa, while at the same time’ the 
has been collected several times by Mr. G. A. Gammie and 
collectors deputed by the staff of the Calcutta Botanic Garden 
between 1887 and 1897, on the Singalila Range (the Nepal-Sikkim 
frontier range) above 10,000 ft., and in various places in Sikkim. 
When Mr. G. A. Gammie first sent me foliage specimens of this 
small species, I took it to be something new and gave it a manuscript 
name, A. Gammieana which was the name under which I proposed 
to describe it in the ‘ Bambuseae.’ I then found I was wrong in 
supposing it to be distinct and that the specimens really belonged 
to what Munro had described as A. racemosa. is high-level 
plant has culms 60-120 em. high and scarcely 1 cm, in diameter at 
base and smooth, not scabrous as in the low-level form. Both the 
gregariously over considerable areas. In this manner of Fresh 
i amble 
of the Western Himalaya, A. Rolloana, Gamble of the ieee Hills 
itford, 
which is cultivated in Europe, but of the exact country of whose 
