16 ANNALS OF THE ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN, CALCUTTA. 
compressed, long ciliate above; empty glumes 2, pale, ovate, membranous, the lower 3- to 
5-, the upper 7- to 9-nerved, blunt or acute, ciliate at tip; flowering glume similar but 
shortly mucronate, nerves 7 to 9, conspicuous, often minutely scabrous on the back; 
palea longer than flowering glume, bi-mucronate, 2-keeled, ciliate on Ше keels, 
2-nerved between, 1-пегуе4 on either side of them. Lodicules З, ovate, ot 
various sizes, fimbriate, thickened and 3- to 7-nerved at base. Stamens slightly 
exserted ; anthers blunt or very slightly pointed at the apex. Ovary linear-oblong, 
glabrous, ending іп a short style, divided near the base into two plumose stigmas. 
Caryopsis short, oblong, swollen in the middle and furrowed in front, tipped with the 
persistent base of the style. | | f 
Eastern Himalaya: lower hills of Sikkim up to 7,000 Н., chiefly on dry ridges, 
as on those above Sivoke: collected in flower by Hooker in 1848; by Т. Anderson 
in 1868; and by myself in 1879; also in leaf by Kurz at Goke, 4,000 ft.; by 
T. Thomson and G. A. Gammie. Cultivated in Caleutta, the Nilgiris, and elsewhere. 
This species 15 not easy to recognize from the flowers, but it usually has 4 or 
5 fertile flowers, while A. falata and А. khasiana have rarely more. than 2. Тһе 
beautifully long ciliate leaf-sheath is, however, an excellent character. It із called 
Nigala, titi nigala (Nepalese), Parmiok (Lepcha), and the culms are strong and make 
fishing rods, baskets, mats, etc. It is an excellent hedging plant. 
Puate No. 14.—Arundinaria intermedia, Munro. 1, leaf-branch; 2 & 3, flowering 
branches—of natural size; 4, culm-sheath—reduced to 3; 5, leaf-sheath; 6, spikelet; 
7 & 8, empty glumes; 9, flowering glume; 10, palea and imperfect flower; 11, lodicule; 
12, anther; 18, ovary and stigmas; 14, transverse venation of leaf—enlarged. (All 
from Hookers specimens, except No. 4 from my own.) 
14. AnüNDINARIA Hooxertana, Munro in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxvi. 29. 
A handsome, rather tall, cxspitose bamboo. Culms 15 to 20 feet high, slender, 
glaucous-green with whitish scurf when young; when older with a dark bluish ring 
at the top of each internode, often striated green and yellow; ‘7 to 15 in. in diameter; 
nodes not much swollen, but prominently ringed by the persistent base of the sheath; 
internodes to 8 in. long, fistular, walls thin, (1 in. in thickness); branchlets chiefly from 
the upper nodes, short, those bearing leaves and flowers respectively on different 
culms. Culm-sheaths papery, striate, often 12 to 24 in. long and 3 to 6 in. broad at 
base, concavely attenuate upwards in the upper half to a truncate point below the 
imperfect blade and produced on either side beyond it to a point to meet the ligule; 
imperfect blade linear, “2 to :3 in. broad, 3 to 6 in. long; ligule 71 to 2 in. long, 
dentate or lacerate, depressed in the middle, curved upwards at the edges. Leaves linear- 
to oblong-lanceolate, glaucous-green when young, 6 to 12 in. long by “5 to 1:5 in. 
broad; attenuate at the base into a 71 to "2 in. long petiole; acuminate in a scabrous 
setaceons point; somewhat rough above, pale and glabrous beneath except for a few 
white hairs round the midrib at the base; margins scabrous; main vein prominent 
beneath, shining; secondary veins 4 to 8. pairs; intermediate 5 to 7, по proper trans- 
verse veinlets, but many pellueid glands giving the appearance of oblique transverse 
veinlets on the under surface when dry; leaf-sheaths striate, glabrous but minutely ciliate 
at the edges, ending in a broad callus and thin membrane without bristles; ligule long, 
