Arundinaria."] CLXXIII. GRAMINE^). (Bambusece, Gamble.) 385 



internodes 10-12 in., walls thin. Stem -sheaths 4-6 by 1-2 in., covered with at 

 length deciduous bristles, shining, margins ciliate, auiicles falcate and with long 

 bristles, blade subulate recurved. Leaves glabrous above, tessellate, margins carti- 

 laginous spinulosc-scabrous, nerves 8-10 pairs ; petiole broad, flat ; ligule long, 

 membranous, deeply cleft. Eemarkable for its broad leaves. 



25. A. armata, Gamble Bamb. Brit. Ind. 130, t. 119 ; roqtstock 

 creeping, stems solitary, nodes smooth slightly thickened, leaves oblong- 

 lanceolate long-acuminate tessellate smooth above slightly rough beneath, 

 margins scabrid, midrib pubescent above. 



Hills of UPPEE BURMA, alt. 5500 ft., Oliver. 



Evergreen. Sterna about 20 ft. by 1-lf in. diam., green, straight, smooth, walls 

 very thin ; nodes with a belt of straight smooth spines, interuodes about 8 in. ; 

 stem-sheaths 6-8 in. by 2-3 in. broad at the base, thin, tapering to a very narrow 

 tip, smooth or with scattered hairs above the middle, margins ciliate ; blade about 

 T \y in., triangular, pubescent; ligule very narrow, ciliate. Leaves 6-9 by -! in., 

 bright green, base narrowed, petiole -$-% in., tip twisted scabrid, midrib narrow 

 pale shining, nerves 6 pairs with- 5-7 intermediate, transverse nervules very many 

 irregularly spaced ; leaf-sheaths striate, ending in small calli and bearing 10-12 

 stiff bristles ; ligule very short, ciliate. Inflorescence unknown. Near A. callosa, 

 Munro, but quite distinct. 



tt Leaves not or inconspicuously tessellate by transverse nervules. 



26. A. suberecta, Munro in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxvi. (1868) 32; stems 

 coespitose wiry erect, leaves narrow 2-4 by -5 i n - subsessile linear not or 

 hardly tessellate, base narrowed margins revolute, sheath ending in a callus 

 with a few deciduous bristles. Gamble Bamb. Brit. Ind. 25, t. 24. 



SIKKIM HIMALAYA, Kennedy. KHASIA and JAINTEA HILLS, alt. 4000-5000 ft. 

 Griffith, &c. 



Stems ]0-15 ft. by -5 in. diam., olive-green, smooth; nodes slightly swollen; 

 internodes 6-10 in., walls thick ; branchlets short, whorled. Stem-sheaths 2-6 by 

 in. broad at base, glabrous, gradually narrowed to a naked or fimbriate mouth ; 

 blade -l in., subulate, recurved; ligule long, tip fimbriate. Leaves pale beneath, 

 with many pellucid glands, tip setaceous, margins scabrous-serrate, nerves 3-4-pair ; 

 ligule rather long, pubescent. 



27. -A. K-urzii, Gamble Bamb. Brit. Ind. 25, t. 25; nodes with a 

 thick ring bearing very many long wiry geniculate branches, leaves 2-4 

 by i-i in. snbsessile very thin linear-lanceolate acute obscurely tessellate, 

 base unequally narrowed, sheath slender striate, ending in a small callus 

 and a few thin cilia. 



SOUTHERN BURMA ; on the coast, Kurz. 



Apparently a bushy shrub. Stem smooth, -- in. diam. Leaves acute with 

 a short point, smooth on both surfaces with a few long tubercle-based hairs on the 

 nerves beneath, costa thin pale, nerves 2 pairs, transverse nervules very few and 

 inconspicuous; ligule short sometimes ciliate. Remarkable for its thin leaves and 

 geniculate pale branchlets. 



** Stem-sheaths 12-18 in. long, blade long. 



28. A. IVXannii, Gamble Bamb. Brit. Ind. 26, t. 26; stem tufted 

 climbing wiry solid, blade of stem-sheath G-10 in. linear, leaves 6-9 by 

 i, l -l in. petioled lanceolate hirsute beneath not tessellate. 



ASSAM'; Jaintea Hills, alt. about 3000 ft., Mann. 



Stems 30 ft., much branched, nodes thickened, branches many geniculate; intej'- 

 nodes 3 ft., smooth. Stem-sheaths 12-18 in.,, convolute, slender; rough with 

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