INDIAN BAMBUSEÆ ; GAMBLE. 9 
7,200 ft. in September 1890 in flower. Also by Beddome in 1873 on Anemudi Hill, 
Anamalais, at 8,500 ft. 
This is probably the smallest Indian species of bamboo, and it is characterized 
by the 1-flowered spikelets and short leathery imbrieate leaves. Since the discovery by 
Trimen of the flowers, Munro's suggestion of its relationship to А, Walkeriana no longer 
holds good. | 
Рілте No. 7.—Arundinaria densifolia, Munro. 1, leaf-branch; 2, flowering branch— 
natural size ; 3, culm-sheath—somewhat reduced; 4, raceme; 5, spikelet; 6 & 7, empty glumes; 
8, flowering glume; 9, palea and imperfect terminal flower; 10, lodicule; 11, anther; 
12, ovary and stigmas; 13, transverse venation of leaf— enlarged. (No. 1 from Thomson’s 
specimen C. P. 3956; the rest from Trimen’s specimens.) 
8. ARUNDINARIA RACEMOSA, Munro in Trans. Linn, Soc, xxvi. 17. 
An erect, gregarious shrub, with culms arising from long rhizomes. Culms 5 to 
15 ft. high, 7 to 1 in, and even 2 in. in diameter, bluish-green, glaucous when 
young; nodes marked by a ring; internodes 12 to 15 in. long, scabrous, rough above, 
walls thin; branchlets fascicled at the nodes, Culm-sheaths shorter than the internodes, 
usually 10 in. long, striate, covered with scattered black stiff hairs, ciliate at the 
edges, attenuate convexly at the top and truncate; imperfect blade 2 to 3 in. 
long, narrow, subulate, reflexed; ligule “1 to "2 in. long, fimbriate. Leaves linears 
lanceolate, 4 to 7 in. long, "5 to ‘7 in. broad; rounded or attenuate at the base into a 
short "1 in. petiole; ending above in а long setaceous point; glabrous above, 
sometimes with long hairs beneath, afterwards glabrous; scabrous-serrate on the 
edges; main vein yellowish, prominent; secondary veins 3 to 5 pairs; intermediate 5 
to Т; transverse veinlets very numerous, regular, and conspicuous, raised beneath; 
leaf-sheaths straw-coloured, striate, sometimes hairy, ending in а somewhat ciliate 
membrane below the blade and bearing very short auricles with a few long stiff 
bristles ; ligule short, blunt. Inflorescence a simple terminal panicle of close leafy 
verticillate branchlets which are surrounded by the persistent sheaths of fallen leaves ; 
. rachis glabrous; pedicels wavy, angular, 1 to 19 in. long. Spikelets in short racemes, 
1 to 15 in. long, 4- to 8-flowered, the uppermost flower imperfect; rachilla clavate, 
flattened at the tip, ciliate on the edges and hairy on the articulation below the 
flowers; empty glumes 2, very small acuminate, distant; flowering glume caudate- 
acuminate from a broad base, rough ciliate on the edges, point long scabrous, 7- to 
9-nerved; palea shorter, bimucronate at the apex, ciliate on the keels, scabrous at tip, 
nerves none or scarcely visible. /ойісшев 3, short, obtuse or one acute, short, fimbriate. 
Stamens hardly exserted; anthers long, purple, bifid at top, filaments short. Ovary 
oblong-ovoid, rounded, glabrous, produced into a short style, which is divided above the 
base into 2 or 3 рарШове stigmas. Curyopsis *2 to °З іп. long, elliptic, acute, 
glabrous, furrowed on one side. 
North-East Himalaya in East Nepal and Sikkim from 6,000 to 12,000 feet: 
collectéd many times in leaf, but in flower only by Dr. T. Thomson in 1857, and 
by G. A. Gammie and collectors of the Calcutta Botanic Garden in 1887 to 1890 
at 10,000 feet, below Suburkum and Phalut on the Singalela Range. 
This species is the common gregarious small bamboo of the Darjeeling upper 
forests, and it is there in universal employ as a fodder for cattle and ponies, especially 
Ann. Roy. Bor. баз». CALCUTTA, Vor. VII. 
