ARUNDINARIA (or BAMBUSA ?) VEITCHII 
In its general habit this Bamboo has many points of similarity 
with BAMBUSA PALMATA, though it is on a much humbler 
scale, the plant being only about 2 feet high and the leaves 
far smaller and more suddenly pointed at the top. The culms 
are round and much flattened at their summits, but their 
colour, unlike those of BAMBUSA PALMATA, is a rich purple. 
The nodes are not very salient, the internodes being from 3 
to 4 inches long. The circumference of the culms is about 
half an inch or a little more, the pipe about one-sixteenth of an 
inch in diameter. Each node bears only one branch. The leaf 
sheaths, which show no tessellation, have a very small ligule 
and limbus with serrated edges, and on either side of the 
ligule is a little tuft of coarse hairs, sometimes standing out 
like a stag’s antlers. These hairs, together with the limbus, 
are very perishable and soon lost, while the sheaths are very 
persistent, encircling the culm until the branches stand out. 
The purple internodes are plentifully bedecked with bloom. 
The tessellated leaves are about 7 inches long by some 
21 inches broad, green on the upper surface, glaucous under- 
neath, and much serrated. Rounded at the base, towards the 
upper end they are pinched in, rather more on one side than 
on the other, and culminate in a short, sharp point. They are 
markedly serrated on both edges. The yellowish midrib is 
