378 CLXXIJI. GRAMINE.E. (Bombusew, Gamble.) [Arundinaria. 



braue below the petiole and short auricles with 5-8 twisted bristles ; ligule short.^ 

 Panicle large, with slender filiform branches appressed at first, axils glandular. 

 Spikelets about 1 in., gl. I T \j-i in., acute, 3-nerved, tip ciliate ; II longer, more 

 nerved; fl. gls. 3 in., acuminate, 7-9-nerved, tip ciliate; keels of palea ciliate; grain 

 i in., red. 



ft Spikelets few, in short 'panicles. 



4. A. elegans, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xlii. (1873) 248 ; For. 

 FL Burma, ii. 549 ; stems slender, internodes smooth, leaves linear- 

 lanceolate lon^ acuminate tessellately nerved, margins cartilaginous 

 scabrid, spikelets long 7-8-nd. in a terminal interrupted panicle or raceme 

 pedicelled flattened, fl. gls. distant acuminate. Gamble Bamb. Brit. 

 Jnd. 6, t. 4. 



UPPER ASSAM ; Naga Hills, alt. 5500 ft., Eollo. BURMA, Poneshee, J. Anderson ; 

 Tenasserim and Martaban, alt. 5-7500 ft., Kurz, &c. 



Stems 12-20 ft. high by -^-^ in. diam. ; internodes 7-9 in., flattened on one 

 side, smooth; sheaths ^ the length of the interuodes, papery, hispidulous, upper ^ 

 narrowed to a truncate minutely auricled mouth ; blade subulate, recurved. Leaves 

 4-5 by ^-^ in., base narrowed' into a very short petiole, midrib yellow, primary 

 nerves 4-b' pairs; sheath smooth, striate, tipped with a ciliate callus, auricles bristly ; 

 ligule very short. Spikelets 1 in. or more ; gl. I and II ^ in., ovate, acuminate, 

 3-5-nerved, keel ciliute; tt. gls. similar, 7-nerved and transversely nervuled; palea 

 obovate, 2-fitl, 2-nerved between the white-ciliate keels and 1-uerved on each side 

 of them. 



5. A. polystachya? Kurz ex Gamble Bamb. Brit. Ind. 7, t. 5 ; 

 stems soft, leaves thin soft lanceolate acuminate with a twisted tip, rough 

 above white hairy or smooth beneath not or rarely tessellately nerved 

 margins scabrous ligule long, spikelets long 4-6-fld. in a large terminal 

 or axillary racemose leafy panicle with papery bracts, fl. gls. distant 

 ovate long-acuminate. 



SIKKIM HIMALAYA & the KHASIA HILLS, alt. 3-5000 ft., Griffith, Kurz, Mann, 

 &c. 



A small shrubby bamboo ; stem-sheaths unknown. Leaves 6-8 by -j^-1 in., 

 base rounded or narrowed, petiole very short, midrib rather broad, principal 

 nerves 5 pairs, with lines of pellucid glands between the secondary, transverse 

 nervules few or ; sheath greenish yellow, striate, glabrous, ending in a broad 2-fid 

 callus, and produced upwards to meet the long striate obtuse fimbriate ligule. 

 Spikelets %-^ in., rachilla clavate ; gls. I and II ovate, acuminate, ^5-7-nerved, 

 keeled and ciliate above; fl. gls. about twice as long, 7-9-nerved, ciliate; palea 

 longer, mucronate, tip 2-fid, 1-nerved between and 1-nerved on each side of the 

 ciliate keels. 



6. A. debilis, Tliw. Enum. PL Zeyl. 375 ; shrubby, stems much 

 branched, leaves small linear-lanceolate acute obscurely or not tessellate 

 tip scabrous base acute or subtruncate, ligule short, spikelets short 3-fld., 

 shortly pedicelled in a terminal short leafy panicle, fl. gls. imbricating 

 ovate mncronate. Munro in Trans. lAnn. Soc. xxvi. (1868) 24; Bedd. FL 

 Sylv., Forest. Man. p. ccxxx. ; Trim. Cat. Ceyl. PL 110 ; Gamble Bamb. Brit. 

 Ind. 7, t. 6. 



CKYLON ; Central Province, alt. 6-3000 ft., Thwaites, &c. (C.P. n. 1). 



Stems elongate; nodes rather enlarged, interuodes 2-6 in. by |- T ^ in. diam., 

 upper smooth yellow shining, lower glabrous or top hispid with long hairs. Leaves 

 l-3 by -| \ in., glaucous, glabrous, or hairy above glabrous beneath, one or both 

 margins scabrous; midrib thick, primary nerves 2-3 pairSj obscure, transverse 



