. INDIAN ВАМВОЗЕЖ ; GAMBLE. 5 
the keels. Lodicules З; usually two obtuse larger, one acute smaller, ciliate, 3- to 7-nerved. 
Stamens with short. filaments, anthers brown, acute. Ovary glabrous, зе entire at 
the base, soon dividing into two plumose stigmas. Caryopsis elliptic, acute, 71 to "2 
in. long, deeply furrowed on one side. Ruprecht Ват. 26, tab. ШІ, fig. 10; Munro 
in Trans, Linn, Soc, xxvi. 19. Beddome Flora Sylv. сеххх, Anal. Gen. t, 28; Brandis 
For. Flora 563; Steudel Syn. 335; Thwaites Enum, Plant. Zeyl. 444. 
Var. 8. HISPIDA, leaf-sheaths and stems thickly covered with golden hairs, 
from a bulbous Базе; internodes more prominently flattened on one 
side. А. ‘hispida, Steudel Syn. 335; A. moliniformis, Hochst. in Herb. 
Hohenacker No. 1282, | | 
Hills of South India and Ceylon, most common on the Nilgiris, where it covers the 
upper slopes of the hills above 6,000 feet chiefly as an underwood in ‘sholas’ of 
Eugenia, Michelia, Пер апа other trees. It is especially common on the sides of 
Doddabetta (8,600 feet) and in the Kundahs Range, where also var, 8 is found, chiefly 
оп the crest of the ghats from Sispara to Makurti. It has been collected by Wight, 
Hohenacker, and many others in Niigiris; by Beddome in Palghat and Tinnevelly; 
and by Thwaites on Pedrotallagalla in Ceylon at 8,000 feet (C. P. 3860). 
This very pretty species flowers annually, and being practically the only Nilgiri 
reed-like bamboo, is at once recognized in those hills. It is commonly used for 
mat-making and baskets, also for fences. 
Ррате No. 9.—Arundinaria Wightiana, Nees. 1, leaf-branch; 2, part of flower 
. panicle; 3, node of culm—of natural size; 4, culm-sheath—reduced 3; 5, spikelet; 6 & 7, 
empty glumes; 8, flowering glume; 9, palea; 10, flower with glume and palea removed 
to show lodicules, ovary and stamens; 11, lodieules; 12, stamen; 13, caryopsis; 14, 
venation of leaf—enlarged (from fresh specimens gathered by myself). 
3. ARUNDINARIA FLORIBUNDA, Thwaites Елит. Plant. Zeyl. 315. 
A small erect shrubby bamboo. Culms 2 to 5 ft. high; internodes 2 to 4 in. 
long, very hairy at top with retrorse hairs. Leares lanceolate, acuminate, glabrous, 
spinulose-serrate on the edges, more or less attenuate into a very short petiole at 
the base, the petiole with two glands; main vein narrow, secondary veins 3 to 4 
pairs with about 5-6. intermediate and many regular and conspicuous transverse 
veinlets ; leaf-sheaths striate, sometimes hispid with long hairs from tubercular bases, 
ending in а minutely ciliate membrane below the petiole and in short auricles 
furnished with 5 to 8 long twisted bristles; ligule short, often fimbriate. Inflorescence 
a large terminal panicle, the branches at first appressed, afterwards spreading, filiform, 
axils glandular. Spikelets usually 1 in. long, minutely silkily pubescent, 5- to 8-flowered, 
the uppermost empty ; rachis angular, dilated above, curved between the flowers and 
conspicuous; empty glumes 2, outer *1 to “2 in. long, acute, 3-nerved, ciliate at apex, inner 
similar but longer and more nerved ; flowering glume 3 in. long, acuminate, 7—9-nerved, 
ciliate at the apex ; palea as long, glabrous, 2-keeled, ciliate on the keels, bicuspidate. 
Lodicules 3, two broad, ovate, fimbriate ; the third small, narrow, fimbriate. Stamens with 
short filaments, anthers blunt. Ovary glabrous; style short, at once separating into 2 flat 
