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l-nerved on either side of the keels. Lodicules 3, ovate, obtuse, or one acute, firnbriate, 3- 
to 7-пегуед, nerves brown, Stamens exserted, filaments somewhat flattened, anthers blunt 
at the apex. Ovary glabrous, elliptic, surmounted by а thickened s at once 
separating into two plumose stigmas. Caryopsis not known. 
Khasia Hills in Assam at about 5,000 to 6,000 ft. Collected at Shillong by 
Griffith (No. 1058); at Churra and other places by Hooker in 1850; Dy Masters; 
and by G. Mann in 1889. 
It is most difficult to separate this from A. falcata; but, as Munro remarks, it 
has a different look, and it is a plant of a stiffer and stronger general growth. 
After examining a large number of specimens of both species, I have come to the 
conclusion that the whole of the Assam material belongs to this species and that 
А. falcata is confined to the Western Himalaya. А. khasiana has а more dense and 
inbricated panicle, shorter flowers and а hairy rachis to the spikelet; the character 
of the hairs beneath the leaf given by Munro as belonging to .A. falcata does not 
entirely hold good. It is known as Мата) in the Khasia Hills according to 
Hooker and G. Mann. 
Pirate Хо.. 13.— Arundinaria khasiana, Munro. 1, leaf-branch; 2, flowering branch; 
3, leaf-sheath—natural size; 4, 'culm-sheath—reduced to 1; 5, part of panicle; 6, spikelet; 
7 & 8, empty glumes; 9, flowering glume; 10, palea and imperfect flower; 11, lodicules ; 
12, anther; 13, ovary and stigmas; 14, transverse venation of leaf—en/arged. (АП 
from Griffith's specimens, except No. 4 which is from those of С. Mann.) 
13. ARUNDINARIA INTERMEDIA, Munro im Trans. Linn. Soc. xxvi. 28, 
A thin, cæspitose, gregarious shrub. Cu/ms smooth, greyish-green, 8 to 12 ft. 
high, *4 to "5 in, in diameter; nodes swollen, with a prominent ring and a whitish 
line below them; internodes 5 to 10 in. long, walls 71 to ‘2 in. thick; branches many 
from the nodes. Culm-sheaths glabrous, papery, strongly striate, 8 to 10 in. long 
by 1 to 2 in. broad at the base, tapering evenly in the upper third to a truncate 
tip “1 to ‘2 in. broad, ciliate below the blade and produced beyond it to meet the 
ligule; imperfect blade narrow, subulate, 5 to 2 in. long, recurved; ligule up to 2 in. 
long, blunt. Leaves bright green, very variable, from 8 in. long and 1 in. broad 
in young shoots to З to 4 in. long and 5 in. broad in the slender branchlets 
from the nodes, .linear-lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate ; attenuate at the base into 
a short swollen petiole about 71 in. long; acuminate above іп а setaceous point; 
scabrous above and on both margins, pale and smooth or hairy near the midrib 
beneath; main vein prominent, shining beneath, secondary veins 3 to 7 on either 
side; intermediate 6 to 7; transverse veinlets few, distant, with few pellucid glands 
between; Jeaf-sheaths striate. glabrous or with scattered long stiff hairs above, ending in 
a thickened minutely ciliate callus below the petiole and produced at the side into 
faleate auricles bordered with curving stiff deciduous bristles; //gule elongate, obtuse or 
triangular. Inflorescence on leafless stems consisting of racemose panicles verticillate from 
the nodes and. of variable length, subtended by membranous bracts ; rachis smooth, dark, 
with small triangular bracts below and sometimes a tuft of hair above at the axils. 
Spikelets “5 to 1 im. long, yellow or purplish, with 2 empty glumes, 3 to 5 flowers 
and а terminal free rachilla or. imperfect flower; rachillæ between the flowers clavate, 
