12 TUE JOURXAL OF JAPANESE BOTANY. ivoi. iii. Xo. s. 



Arundlnai'ia viridi-strlatJ ß. agrestis 3Iakino, MSS. 



Rhizome horizontally long-creeping, hypogaeous, slender, terete, 3-4j mm. 

 across, with a seiender hollow and thick wall, loosely branching, smooth, 

 yellowish, rooting at nodes; internodes about 2|-4jcm. long. Culm attain- 

 ing about 1 m. in height, erect, slender, simple at first year but afterwards 

 laxly branching, terete, fistulöse, smooth, light green, or yellowish green, 

 often shaded with purplish colour on sun-side, about 1'- nearly 4mm. in 

 diameter, with old sheaths; nodes prominent; internode attaining about 



13 cm. in length, with white-bloom under the nodes. Leaves palmately or 

 pinnato-palmately arranged towards the top of branches, about 5-10 m number, 

 oblong-lanceolate, or sometimes narrowly lanceolate in the superior ones, 

 comparatively short-acuminate at the apex, subcordate, rounded, obtuse, or 

 acute at the base, spinuloso-scabrous on margin, chartaceous, green or yellowish 

 green, extremely thinly pubescent and finely striate above, softly pubescent 

 beneath with erect-patent hairs, more or less fragile m texture, turned into 

 yellow m autumn and decay in winter, attaining about 20J cm. in length and 

 about neary 4cm. in width; midrib slender, prominent beneath; veins 5-8 on 

 each side; veinlets finely tessellate beneath; petiole very short, 11-5 mm. 

 long, pubescent in front; ligule very short, truncate, about Imni. long, densely 

 puberulent dorsally, minutely ciliated on margin; sheatii greenish and often 

 sliaded with i>urple on sunny side, terete, sub-carinate above dorsally, striate, 

 glabrate but often finely pubescent above, ciliated on margin, fimbriate on 

 each side of the top, fimbrae at length deciduous. 



Nom. Jap. Ao-kamurozasa (nov.). 



Hah. Prov. KODZrivE: Near Tatebayashi, wild (T. Marino !j. 



Phyllostachys bambusoides Sikb. kt Zrcc. var. aurea INIakino in Bot. 

 Mag., Tokyo, XIV. (1900), p. 64. 



forma albo-variegata Marino, nov. f. 



Leaves albo-variegated. 



Nom. Jap. Shlma-lioteleMku (nov.). 



Hah. Prov. SKTTSU: Osaka, cultivated (T. ^Iakixo!). 



forma alternato-lutescens Makixo in Tsuboi, 111. Jap. S]>. Baml). (1916), 

 p. 7, tab. 7. 



("ubn alternately light yellow (then pale in age) above the main branches 

 on each side. 



Nom. Jap. Glmmei-chiku (Isckk Tsiboi), Gimmei-hachiku (I. Tsreoi), Gimmei- 

 Jioteichiku (T. Makixo). 



Hah. JAPAN, garden, very rare. 



{To he cont'imwl.) 



CORRECTIONS. 



Page 7, upper mars^n, for 1928 read : 1926. 

 Page S, line 10, for I'nt we read : Xatnore. 

 I'age 8, line 7 from liottom, for SAT. read: SAT.) 



