139 
Eastern Nepav: at Yalloong, 10,000 ft., Vern. * Pat-hioo,’ 
J. D. Hooker (leaves only), SIKKIM : woods above Islumbo Se 
TL. Thomson, Oct. 13, 1857 (Griffith K.D. 6738, flowers) ; 
Singalilah 10,000 ft., June 1887 Dr. King’s Collector eke ; a 
Saburkum 10, 000 ft., March 1889, Vern. ‘Miknu’ Lepcha, 
‘Mheem’? Bhutia a, G. A. Gammie’s Collector (culms and leaves) ; at 
Phalut, 10,000 ft., May 1890, ~ eget Collector conor leaves and 
flowers ) 3 ab Phalut 11,500 ft., May 1892, Vern. ‘ Miknu’ Lepcha, 
Gammic (culms, leaves and flower s); at J “pany 12,000 ft., 
July 1897, Phul Sing for G. A. Gammie 10,344 (leaves) ; at Phalut 
12,000 ft. do. do. 10,348 (flowers and leav es). 
Some of the specimens above quoted are in the Herbarium at 
ew, the rest of them, communicated by the Calcutta Botanic 
Garden or by Mr. Gammie, in my own. 
Arundinaria Maling, Gamble sp. nov. 
Frutez erectus, 3-9 m. altus, e rhizomate crasso subterraneo 
culmos singulos per intervalla proferens. Culmi graciles, erecti, 
chartaceo-coriacea, eximie striata, extus sparsim fulvo-hispida, 
marginibus ciliatis, ad 30 cm. longa et 10 cm. lata, supra attenuata, 
ore 1-2 cm. lato auriculata, et ciliis longis pe patentibus 
munita ; lamina subulata, 6-7 cm. longa, erecta reflexa, intus 
stabee © ligula 1 em, longa, eximie fimbriata. ‘Folia chartacea, 
lineari-lanceolata, apice setaceo-acuminata, basi in petiolum brevem 
attenuata, utroque latere mie subtus glaucescentia ; marginibus 
minutissime scabra ; 5-18 cm. longa, 0°8-2 cm, lata ; nervi utrinque 
3, minoribus circa ge 9 5-6 | er mm.) Hveeaes et venulis trans- 
versis conspicuis, tessellatin circa 3-4 per mm. ; vaginae hrite 
cm. ee ad basim bracteis fe ag superne foliaceis 
vaginantibus suffulta ; ; rhachis glabra, angulata; rami et pedivelit 
filiformes, sinuati, 1-2 em. longi ; spiculae 10-20, 3°5 cm. longae ; 
flores in spiculis 7-9, distichi, alterni, ultimo vacuo ; rhachillae 
clavatae, curvatae, intus complanatae, pubescentes et ciliatae, 5-6 
mm, longae. Glumae I. et II. (vacuae) florem inferum amplec- 
tentes, ovatae, scabride setaceo-acuminatae, I. enervis 2-4 mm, 
longa, II. 5-nervis 7-9 mm. longa; gluma III. (florens) etiam 
ovata, et scabride setaceo-acuminata, 7-9-nervis et nervulis trans- 
versalibus, 1-1'2 cm. longa; IV. (palea) apice bifida, ad carinas 
ciliata, intra carinas 2—3-nervis et ner vulis paucis transversalibus, a 
latera 1—2-nervis, 7-8 mm. longa. Jodiculae 3 ovatae, obtuse 
acutae, ciliatae, basi nervosae, 2~2°5 mm. longae. _Antherae luteae, 
5-6 mm. longae, apice bifidae. Ovarium ovoideum, stylo brevi 
only) ; Lorain in Ann. R. Bot. as Cal. vii 9 re part), t. 8 
figs. 1, 4, and in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vii. 379 (in part) ; 
Seendis tad. om 664 (low-level form). 
Sixxim: Mount Tonglo, 9000 ft, May 23 Vern. 
‘Maling’ Nep., B. B. Osmaston (flowers and vay: - grat inom, 
