144 GRAMINE^E. 



sur des rameaux ou ramuscules terminaux, en epis verticilles, a verticilles 

 formes de pen d'epillets et a pen pres equidistants. Epillets brillants 

 livides, courts, au plus de 14mm. de long, pauciflores, a 5-7-fl., subcylindri- 

 ques, aigus ; racheole courte, articulee. Fleurs superieures et inferieures 

 graduellement imparfaites, les nioyennes 2-3 hermaphrodites. Fleurs ^ : 

 Glumelle infer, nerviee, glabre, obtuse, souvent mucronee ; glumelle super, 

 depassant un peu la sup. 2-carenee, a carenes finement fimbriees vers leur 

 somniet, munie de 5-7 nervures entre les 2 carenes. Glumellules non visible- 

 ment iierviees, finement fimbriees. Antheres a connectif obtus allonge. Style 

 surmoiite par 3 stigmates. .Ovaire stipite, obove, hirsute au sommet. Chine, 

 Forinose : Tamsuy (OLDHAM), Linthao (CANTKO)." 

 HAB. Mt. Kwannonzan. 



Bambusa dolichoclada HAYATA sp. nov. (Fig. 54). Khizoma breve 



^, \< W* 

 erectum cra^suufi teres' 4^ cm. in diamctro. Culmus haud spinosus breve 



csespitxisus 10 cm. altus in 2 m. altitudinem 4^ cm. in dianietro tercs circularis 

 in sectione viridis ssepe extus albo-cerifer a basi ramifer ; ramis inferioribus 

 efoliatis gracillimis longissimis horizontaliter patentibas. Merithallium ad 2m. 

 altitudinem 30 cm. longum 4J cm. in diametro, lignum 8 mm. crassum, canalis 

 33 mm. in diametro, pulvillus inferior prominens, is superior obscurus ; pulvilli 

 a se 7 mm. distantes. Rami ad nodos fasciculati. Vagina media coriacea 

 extus fusco-hirsuta 24 cm. longa 28 cm. lata margine versus apiceni tenuiter 

 hirsuta apice late truncata, partibus truncatis 16 cm. latis plus minus rotundatis 

 vel fere truncatis ; ligula brevissima apice fimbriato-ciliata ; pseudophyllum 

 elongato-triangulare 17 cm. longum 16 cm. latum, basi cum partibus truncatis 

 vagina; sequilatum, basi subito latius supra basin ad marginem valde undulato- 

 crispato-plicatum hie ibidem longe setoso-barbatum extus subglabrum intus basi 

 dense hirsuto-barbatum ; vaginella 5^7 cm. longa 23 mm. lata glabra apice 

 auriculis conspicuis setulosis utroque latere instructa, ligula brevissima truncata 

 extus hirsuta ^ mm. longa haud ciliolata. Folia lineari-lanceolata 9-18 cm. longa 

 13-23 mm. lata apice acuniinatissima basi subito rotundato-truncata abrupte ad 

 petioluni l|-2 mm. longum abeuntia margine scabra supra glabra supra prope 

 latus unum scabra subtus tenuiter hirsuta, nervis secundariis utroquc latere 

 costse 5-7, venulis inter secundarios 8-9 haud tessellatis. 



