14 ANNALS OF THE ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN, CALCUTTA. 
The culms ‘are exported in considerable quantities to the plains, along with those 
of other species, to make  hooka-tubes, fishing rods, &c., and in the hills they are 
used for basket work. This species is cultivated in Europe. It is recognized at once 
from А. spathiflora by the absence of transverse veinlets, and from its neighbour 
„А. khasiana by the rather larger spikelets, loose inflorescence and generally narrower 
leaves. Nees describes the stigmas as 3, Ruprecht says ‘2 108, while Munro admits 
only 2. I can only find 2, but otherwise the identification seems good. I think 
it is doubtful whether the A. иййз of Dr. H. Cleghorn’s “Notes on the vegetation 
of the Sutlej Valley? in the Journal of the Agricultural and Horticultural Society 
of India, vol. xiii, p. 388, is this species. There is no description, and though 
Munro and Brandis have quoted it in their list of synonyms, the ‘hill bamboo, at 
‘9,000 feet, used for wicker work and for lining the roofs of houses? is just as likely 
to have been А. spathiflora. 
Prate No. 11.—Arundinaria falcata, Nees. 1, leaf-branch ; 2, flowering branch; 
3, rhizome and culm; 5, leaf from end of strong young shoot—naíural size; 4, culm- 
sheath—reduced 1; 6 & 7, spikelets; 8 & 9, empty glumes; 10, flowering glume; 11, 
palea; 12, rudimentary flower on terminal rachilla; 13, lodicule; 14, anther; 15, ovary 
and stigmas; 16, caryopsis; 17, transverse venation of leaf—enlarged. (Nos. 4, 5 from 
my own collecting; rest from a specimen in the Herbarium of the Botanic Gardens, 
Calcutta, bearing Munro's identification. ) | 
Рглтв No. 12.—Улв. glomerata. 1, leaf-branch; 2, part of flowering culm— natural 
size (from specimens collected by C. Bagshawe, Deputy Conservator of Forests, in 1879). 
12. ARUNDINARIA KHASIANA, Munro in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxvi. 98. 
A thick, bushy shrub. Culms 8 to 12 ft. long, 5 in. in diameter, smooth, dark 
green or almost black; nodes prominent; internodes 6 to 8 in. long; branchlets 
very many from the nodes, geniculate, dark-coloured, leaf- and flower-bearing culms 
separate. Cuim-sheaths papery, straw-coloured, 6 to 9 in. long. by 15 to 2 in. 
broad at base, striate, smooth, upper part with transverse veinlets, upper half tapering 
gradually and concavely upwards to a narrow tip; imperfect blade narrower than 
apex of sheath, subulate, recurved, 1 in. long; ligule 2 to 3 in. long, subulate, 
dentate or laceraté. Leaves linear-lanceolate, 3 to 4 in. long by about '8 in. broad; 
attenuate at Ше base into а short petiole; acuminate with а twisted setaceous 
point; smooth: on both sides, or sometimes slightly pubescent beneath;. scabrous on 
both edges; main vein prominent, secondary veins 2 to 3 pairs, with no, or very few 
transverse ' veinlets, but many pellucid dots; Jeaf-sheaths thin, striate, ending in Я 
minutely | ciliate callus and slightly produced to meet the ligule; ligule rather long. 
Inflorescence · оп separate leafless culms, consisting of faleate, branching, geniculate 
panicles, , fascicled . at the nodes and subtended by membranous, short, ovate bracts. 
Spikelets ‘4 to 9 in. long, bearing 2 empty glumes, and usually 2 to 3 flowers 
with E terminal free rachilla or imperfect flower; rachis of spikelet clavate, white 
hairy above; етріу glumes 2, short, the lower 3-, the upper 5- to 7-nerved, short] 
mucronate and ciliate at the. tip and’ on the margins below it; пера gl 4 
similar, but longer. and sti metimes minu За «Тіке 
+ ger stiffer, sometimes minutely. scabrous-pubescent; palea longer 
than the. flowering glume, 2-keeled, glabrous except the ciliate tip, acute or bifid, 
