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PLATE 1969. 
ARUNDINARIA KURILENSIS, Rupr. var. 
GrRAMINEZ. Tribe BamMBuUSsEs. 
kurilensis, rps: var. paniculata; F. Schmidt, Reisen im 
erage und auf d. Ins. Sachalin, 198 ; foliis culmi foliiferi o oblongo- 
vel ovato-ellipticis acuminatis basi rotu ndatis minute tessellatis subtus 
ad nervos parce setuloso-pilosis deinde glabris, culmi floriferi_multo 
minoribus ovato-lanceolatis setuloso-ciliatis, vaginis erate a 
paniculee terminalis ramis elongatis erectis pubescentibus, spiculis p 
purascentibus lanceolatis discretis adpressis internodiis Norton us.— 
A. Vietchii, N. EZ. Brown in Gard. Chron. 1889, vol. v. 521; B. Vietchii, 
Carr. in Rev. Hort. 1888, p. 90; and B. palmata, Hort Latour-Marliac 
(ew N. E. Brown, |.c.). 
Has. Japan, Rein ; and Sachalin, Schmidt. 
Folia 5-7 poll. longa, 2-24 poll. lata; culmi floriferi 15-3 poll. longa. 
Panicula 5-6 poll. longa, stricta. Glume vacue variabiles, superior 
cymbiformis elliptico-lanceolata acutiuscula, ope minuta lineari- 
subulata; gluma florifera ovata breviter acuminata 7- vel obscure 
9-nervosa, apicem versus parce setulosa, c. 4 lin. peat palea gluma 
subeequilonga, minute bidentata. Lodiculw obovate ciliate. Stanwuna 
6-3. Ovariwm cylindricum glabrum. 
: 2 ane J to this species may be referred the Stig one published 
Bengal, 207 
y Mr. Gamble last year, in Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, ae 
under the name of Microcalamus Prainii. The name Microcalamus 
was preoccupied, having been published by Mons. Franchet the 
previous year (1889) in Journ. de Botanique, ni Pea a Bambusacea 
from the Congo. Ithink Bambusa senanensis, h. et Savat. Hnwm. 
Pl. Jap. ii. 182, 606, may be a form of A. hacilansis (var. speciosa). 
On the technical ground of the usual number of stamens this species 
has been referred to Bambusa; but in habit it is so diverse from that 
genus, and so entirely an Arundinaria, that I do not hesitate to follow 
Ruprecht, Schmidt, and Mr. Brown in referring it to the latter genus. 
I further agree with Schmidt in regarding it as a variety of A. kurilensis, 
which he looks upon as a very variable species. e number of 
stamens is not ‘odes six. Mr. Brown and I have found them 
varying down to three.—D. Oniver. 
Fig. 1. ie ee and lower part of rachis with empty glumes. 2. a glume. 
3. Palea. 4. Lodicule. 5. Essential organs. 6. Pistil. Enlarg 
