NATIVES OF THE HIMALAYAS 
ARUNDINARIA FALCATA. 
Tuts Bamboo is described by Munro as belonging to a group 
of four species (the others being ARUNDINARIA KHASIANA, 
ARUNDINARIA INTERMEDIA, and ARUNDINARIA HOOKERIANA, 
all of which, seeing the great altitudes at which they are 
found in the Himalayas ought to be tried in this country), in 
which the flower-bearing and leaf-bearing culms are distinct, 
which flower and seed every year, and, dying down under the 
snows of winter, throw up new shoots from the stools in the 
succeeding spring. The slender culms, with prominent nodes, 
erow to a height of from 6 to 10 feet ; the internodes from 6 
inches to 1 foot in length. The branches are very numerous. 
The culm sheaths are loosely tessellated, with the cross veins 
running diagonally. The ligule is rather long and fringed. 
The limbus narrow, varying in Jength from half an inch to 1} 
inch. The leaves are brilliant in colour and rather glaucous, 
especially on the lower face. They are from 3 to 6 inches 
long, pointed, and tapering to a petiole at their base. The 
secondary nerves on either side of the midrib are from two to 
six or more. The edges are serrated, the teeth being more 
marked on one side than on the other. The leaf sheaths are 
