6 ANNALS OF THE ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN, CALCUTTA. 
lacerate stigmas. Curyopsis 79 in. long, red, linear, crowned with the base of the bifid 
style. Munro in Trans. Linn. Soc. XXVI. 90; Beddome Flora Sylv. сеххх, 
Mountains of Ceylon. Collected by Thwaites іп Ше Maturatte District at 5,000 feet 
in 1853 (C. P. 2624). | 
This species is very near to А. Wightiana, but differs, according to Munro, in the 
generally appressed’ branches of the panicle and the much longer, almost silkily 
pubescent, spikelets containing sometimes 6 to 8 flowers. 
PLATE No. 3.—Arundinaria floribunda, Thw.-1, leaf-branch with young flowering 
panicle; 2, flowering branch—of natural size; 3, spikelet; 4 & 5, empty glumes ; 
6, flowering glume; 7, palea; 8, lodicules; 9, stamen; 10, ovary and stigmas; 
11, venation of leaf-—en/arged (all from Thwaites specimens). 
4. ARUNDINARIA ELEGANS, Kurz in Journ, As. Soc. Beng. xlii. 248 (1873). 
An evergreen, slender, tufted, shrubby bamboo. Culms green or blackish, 12 to 20 ft. 
high, 73 to "8 in. in diameter, flattened on one side in alternate joints; nodes somewhat 
raised; internodes 7 to 9 in. long, smooth. Culm-sheaths one-third the length of the 
internodes, papery, striate, minutely hispid above, narrowed in the upper third to a 
truncate mouth bearing minute auricles; imperfect blade narrow, subulate, recurved ; 
ligule rather broad, finely ciliate. Leaves linear-lanceolate, long-acuminate, 4 to 5 in. 
long by.:3 to '9 in. broad, narrowed at the base into a ‘1 to ‘2 in. petiole; smooth 
above, glaucescent beneath; cartilaginous and scabrous on the margins; main vein 
conspicuous, yellow, shining beneath, secondary veins 4 to 6 pairs, intermediate 8, 
transverse veinlets very many, raised beneath, finely tessellate; Jleaf-sheaths striate, smooth, 
ending in a minutely ciliate callus, and furnished with short auricles bearing a few 
long bristles; ligule very short. Inflorescence a terminal interrupted leafy panicle or raceme 
bearing pedicellate spikelets; rachis thin, wiry, curving, pubescent. Spikelets 1 in. or more 
long, flattened, 7- to 8-flowered ; rachilla visible, wiry, clavate; empty glumes 2, 2 in, long, 
3- to 5-nerved, ovate-acuminate, keeled, ciliate on keel; flowering glume similar, 7-nerved 
with transverse veins; ‘раша shorter, 2-keeled, white ciliate on the keels, obovate, 
bifid at the apex, 2-nerved between keels, l-nerved on either side. 
^ Lodicules 3, 3- to 
ӧ-пегүей, ovate, acute, long ciliate. 
Stamens hardly exserted, anthers purple, rounded or 
mucronate at the tip. Ovary smooth, oblong, surmounted by the style, which is at once 
divided into two white plumose stigmas with thickened bases. Caryopsis not known. 
Kurz For. Fl. Burma ii. 549. x he au: ида : 
Hills of Eastern Burma, extending from Tenasserim and the stunted forests of the 
Nattaung Hills in Martaban at 5,000 to 7,500 feet elevation, northwards into the Каса 
Hills of Assam. : 4 ы | 
This is the chief Burmese species and was collected by Kurz in. 1872, in the 
Nattaung Hills, in flower. Не also identified with it the specimens collected by 
Dr. J. Anderson at Poneshee on the Yunan. Expedition in 1868, and these agree with the 
collections of С. Gallatly made for the Calcutta Botanic Garden in Tenasserim in 1877 
(No. 746, Taipo, 5,000 ісе); but both these have the leaflets in pairs, supported 
by loose skcaths and the culms markedly flat on one side, which would seem to bring 
them nearer to Phyllostachys.. I also identify as this species the Jilli (Naga) collected: by 
