CHAP. VI ARUNDINARIA ARISTATA Vb 
and prominent. The tessellation is very prettily marked. 
The leaf sheaths are fringed with soft silky hairs, the ligule 
being very inconspicuous. The culm sheaths are hairy and 
very slightly tessellated, the cross veins being rare, at great 
distances apart, and rather diagonally inclined. 
