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dorso glabriusculis vel basi liirsutis. Hamuli ad nodos semiverticillati, supcriorcs (culmi) floriferi 

 fcrc aphylli, iuferiores foliifcri taiitum. Folia mcmbranacea, glabra, subtus pallidiora, mar- 

 gine tenui-serrata, liucari-lauccolata, longe setaceo-acumiuata, basi attcnuata, 2-6 poll, longa, 4-8 

 liu. lata, nervis secuiidariis utriuquc ~h-5, veuulis trausversis crcbris clcvatis tessellata. Vagina 

 striatje, dorso glabrae, apice ciliis fimbriatfe, ligvda subbrevi extus hirsuta. Panicula in ramulis 

 subteriiis (basi bracteis vel spathulis carinis hirsutissimis vaginatis) ad nodos fasciculatis vel 

 apliyllis vel foliis cito deciduis terminalis, 3-4 poll, longa, ramis panels brevibus (3-3-poll.) 

 demum rcfractis, axillis hirsuto-glandulosis. Spicules intra glumas pedicellatse, in ramulis basi 

 incrassatis paucae, plcrumquc brevissime pcdicellatae, 5-6-flone, 1-H poll, longa;, angustse, glabrae, 

 rliacliillse fragilis articulis longis clavatis liirsutis. Glumce acutse, apicc scabrae vel hirsutae, inferior 

 basi 5-nervis, superior lougior (4^4^ lin.) 7-ncrvis. Palea inferior acuminatissima, mucrone caduco, 

 7-8 lin. longa, nervosa, glabra ; superior subbrevior, bicarinata, bimucronata, carinis ciliatis. Squa- 

 muhe longe fimbriatse, subtequalcs, vix venosse. Stamina 3, antlieris interdum apice pauci-se/osis, 

 connectivo vix elongato. Stylus cito bifidus. Ovarium liueari-oblongum, vix rostratuni. 



This species is quite unlike any other known to me, and is well distinguished by its 

 woolly and occasionally prickly nodes. It is the only one, I believe, in the genus Avith 

 spinous joints or the hairy points to the anthers described above, although these latter 

 appendages are found in many other genera of Bambusacese. It appears to have been 

 only once found in flower — namely, by the Assam Deputation for the examination of the 

 Tea-plant, under "VVallich and Griffith. There is a good specimen (leaves only) in the 

 Kew Museum, No. 605, in which the prickly nodes can be very well seen ; and some 

 unusually large specimens of the nodes are also preserved in spirits. Hooker, in his 

 'Himalayan Journals,' vol. ii. p. 291, mentions a wood of "prickly Bamboo" near 

 Moflung. 



10. A. Walkeriana, Munro. Paniculse decompositse, ramis adpressis, axillis inferioribus 

 glandulosis, superiox'ibus hirsutis ; spiculis 3-4-floris, glabris ; foliis crassis eximie 

 tessellatis, marginibus cartilagineis fimbriatis ; ramulorum sterilium vaginarum ciliis 

 numerosis, plicatis. — A. JFighticma, Thw. in En. PI. Zeyl. p. 444, non N. ab E. 



Hab. Ceylon, Mrs. Walker, no. 96 ! 1304 ! /. Watson, 215 ! ; Adam' s Peak, Thwaites, 429 ! ; Pedrotala- 

 galla ! Thwaites, 3860 ! v. s. 



Culmus milii ignotus, internodiis supremis \]}-2 poll, longis, glabris, ramulis plerumque 1-3, interdum 

 plurimis ad nodos fasciculatis. Folia ovata acuta, utriuque eximie tessellata veuulis trausversis cre- 

 berrimis, apice pimgentia, basi rotundata, subito petiolata, 2-4 poll, longa, 5-8 lin. lata, glabra, siibtus 

 vix pallidiora, margine cartilagineo pilis longis ciliato, nervis secundariis utrinque 5-6. Vagina 

 striatae, glabrae,, apice quasi subito transverse abscissae, in ramulis (sterilibus praecipue) , utrinque ciliis 

 pallidis multis plicatis fimbriatae, ligula brevi. Panicula decomposita, 4-5 poll, longa ; ramis \"ii'gatis, 

 angulatis, glaberrimis ; axillis inferioribus glandulosis ; superioribus hirsutis ; pedicellis, nisi terminaH 

 lougiore, spiculis brevioribus. Spicuhe coloratae, glabra, 3— 1-flone, 10-12 lin. longae, intra glumas 

 breviter pedicellatae, caUo hirsute, articulis rhacliilla; compressis pubescentibus. Ghtma vix inaequalcs, 

 apices versus margine ciliatae ; inferior vix acuta, nervo 1 valido et 4 inconspicuis ; superior nervis 

 3 validis et 4 inconspicuis, acuminata vel fere obtusa. Palea inferior hast pilis stipafa, 9-nervis, 

 nervis plurimis ante apicem evanescentibus, glabra, oblonga aciita et ciliata ; superior aequalis, apice 

 obtuso vix bifida, subliLrsuta, bicarinata, earinis supeme ciliatis. Squamulce 3, membranaceae, obtusae, 

 nervis meandrinis basi ncrvosae, margine ciliatae, duae majorcs. Stylus basi tumidus, in stigmata 

 2 lata compressa cito divisus. Ovarium apicc coustrictum. 



