10 |. ANNALS OF THE ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN, CALCUTTA. 
in the rainy season. The culms are also largely used in mat-making, for the roofs 
of native houses, for fences, and for garden supports. It. is known аз Maling 
(Nepalese); Рфуешт, miknu (Lepcha); Pheong, mheem (Bhutia). Thomson gives also a 
Sikkim name, Pummoon,.and Hooker the name Pat-hioo with specimens collected at 
Yalloong in Eastern Nepal at 10,000 ft. It is rarely in flower, and out of flower 
is difficult to recognize, but the hairy sheaths, fimbriate sheath Пошев, and rough 
internodes may serve to identify it. | 
It grows to a comparatively large size in the forests below Tonglo ‘and about 
Senchal in Darjeeling, but in these lower forests it has apparently never been col- 
lected in flower; for allthe flowering branches seem to have come from the more or less 
stunted alpine form found above 10,000 feet. Тһе natives distinguish this Alpine form 
under the names miknu and теет, while the names pAyeum and pheong are given to the 
larger lower-level form. . | i 
In regard to the difference between these two forms, Mr. G. A. Gammie in his 
Report on his botanical tour of 1892 on Ше Sikkim-Tibet frontier, says—''It is 
“what Mr. Gamble named: A. Gammieana from specimens of the foliage only, but 
‘haying since examined flowers he has discovered it to be A. racemosa, Munro, а 
* plant which, although so abundant round Darjeeling as to be almost exclusively 
“used as fodder for ponies, has never been known to flower there. Тһе Phalut 
* plant, which differs so much in size and appearance, having reddish stems with 
“ап average height of 3 feet, may of course owe its diminution to the more 
“rigorous climate of higher levels preventing its attaining to a normal growth.” 
. PrarE No. 8.—Arundinaria racemosa, Munro. 1, leaf-vranch; 2, flowering branch ; 
3, culm—of natural size; 4, culm-sheath—reduced about one-third ; 5, spikelet; 6, 
flowering glume; 7, palea; 8, lodicules; 9, lodicules with anthers, style and stigmas ; 
10, anther; 11, ovary, style and stigmas; 12, caryopsis; 13, transverse venation of 
leaf; 14, leaf-sheath of low level form; 15, leaf-sheath of high level form—enlarged 
(Nos. 1, 3, 4, 14 from my own specimens, the rest from those of Calcutta Garden collectors.) 
9, AnmuxpINARIA GRIFFITHIANA, Munro in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxvi. 20. 
An erect, gregarious, thorny shrub. Culms 10 to 20 ft, high, 1 to 1°5 in. in diameter, 
olive-green; nodes prominent, bearing a circle of conical stout short spines ; internodes 
7 to 9 in. long, striate, furrowed, covered. around the base of the node with a ring 
of tawny hairs. Culm-sheaths papery, striate, longer than the internodes, 6 to 9 in. long, 
4 to 5 in, broad at base where they bear a belt of thick tawny soft hairs; gradually 
and somewhat convexly attenuate upwards to a breadth of about "3 in., the apex furnished 
with rounded auricles, back covered thinly with scattered, stiff, bulbous-based hairs, 
edges ciliate; «imperfect. blade 72 to 1:10. long, triangular, acute, hairy ; ligule short, 
hairy, slightly ciliate. Leaves linear-lanceolate, acuminate, thin, 4 to 5 in. long, "4 to 
‘5 in. broad, narrowed at the base into a *2 in. short petiole; tip ending in a long, 
setaceous, somewhat scabrous. point; smooth above, pale beneath, margins smooth; main 
vein pale, shining, conspicuous beneath, secondary veins 4 to 5 pairs, intermediate 4 to 
5, transverse veinlets conspicuous, raised, straight; Jaf-sheaths striate, glabrous, ciliate 
-оп the edges, ending in a narrow ring with a few stiff curved bristles; ligule moderately 
broad, hairy without. Inflorescence. a terminal panicle, surrounded with sheathing 
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