.INDIAN BAMBUSEE; GAMBLE. 7 
James Rollo and Sri Сора! Banerjee in 1889 on the Naga Hills at 5,500 feet, whero 
it is used for the walls of native huts. 
PrarE No. 4.— Arundinaria elegans, Kurz. 1, leaf-branch; 2 & 3, flowering branchlets; 
4, part of young culm—j/ natural size ; 9, culm-sheath—slightly reduced; 6, spikelet; 7 & 
8, empty glumes; 9, flowering glume; 10, palea; 11, lodicule; 12, anther; 13, ovary 
and stigmas; 14, transverse venation of leaf—enlarged (from Kurz’ No. 144 from the 
Nattaung Hills). 
5. ARUNDINARIA POLYSTACHYA, Kurz MS, 
А small shrubby bamboo. Culms rather soft. Culm-sheaths not known. Leaves soft, 
green, 6 to 8 in, long, ‘7 to 1 in. broad, lanceolate, acuminate; rounded or attenuate at 
the base into a very short petiole; ending above in a twisted point; rough above, thinly 
white hairy or smooth beneath; scabrous on one edge; main vein rather broad, secondary 
veins 5 pairs, conspicuous, intermediate 5 to 7, transverse veinlets none or very few, 
but lines of pellucid glands between the intermediate veins; /ea/-sheaths greenish-yellow, 
striate, glabrous, ending in a broad bifid callus, and produced upwards to met the Наше; 
ligule long, striate, blunt, fimbriate. njflorescence a terminal or axillary ‘racemose leafy 
panicle, bearing narrow papery bracts about 1 in. long; rachis channelled on one 
side. Spikelets pedicellate, *5 to ‘7 in. long, 4- to 6-flowered, the uppermost imperfect ; 
rachilla clavate, white-bearded, conspicuous; empty glumes 2, ovate acuminate, "9 to #3 
in, long, 5- to 7-nerved, keeled and ciliate towards the tip; flowering glumes ovate, long 
acuminate, "4 to *5 in. long, 7—9-nerved, ciliate on the edges; paled longer than 
flowering glume, 2-keeled, ciliate on the keels, mucronate, bifid at apex, 1-nerved between 
and 1-пегуе4 on either side of the keels. Lodicules З, usually 2 ovate, obtuse, fimbriate, 
with 3. conspicuous areolate veins, and others smaller; the third ovate, acute, 3-veined, 
Stamens exserted ; anthers long, apiculate, filaments often flexuose. Ovary ovoid, glabrous ; 
style short and at once divided into two long plumose stigmas with thickened bases, 
-North-East Himalaya and Khasia Hills from 3,000 to 5,000 feet, collected by Kurz 
and T. Anderson in Sikkim, and by Griffith and G. Mann in the Khasia Hills. 
= ТЫ species is characterized by the large panicle, soft leaf, long ligule, and the 
absence ‘or fewness of the transverse veinlets. It flowered in 1868 and 1876. 
^ Prare No. 5.—Arundinaria polystachya, Kurz. 1, leaf-branch ; 2, flowering branch— 
of natural size ; 9, spikelet; 4, flowering glume; 5, palea; 6, lodicules; 7, anther; 8, ovary 
and stigmas; 9, transverse venation of leaf—enlarged. (From Mann’s Khasia Hills specimen 
No. 254.) , . 
6. ARUNDINARIA DEBILIS, Thwaites Enum. Plant. Zeyl, 375. 
A shrubby bamboo, apparently gregarious. Culms elongated, much branched, 2 to 
8 in. in diameter; nodes rather enlarged ; internodes 2 to 6 in. long, glabrous at the 
"Фор or hispid with long hairs; the upper ones smooth, yellow, shining. Culm-sheaths not 
known. Leaves small, linear-lanceolate, glaucous, 1:5 to 3 in. long, “2 to *3 in. broad, acute 
or sub-truncate at the base with a short "05 to 71 in. petiole ; very acute at the tip, and 
with С анов point; glabrous or hairy above, glabrous beneath; scabrous on one edge or 
both; main. vein thick айа prominent, secondary veins 2 to З pairs inconspicuous ; 
intermediate 5, transverse. veinlets few, distant, very inconspicuous, often wanting; 
