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conspicuous, often of dark colour and pointed. Inflorescence of loose, falcate, racemose 
panicles fascicled at the nodes of a leafless culm, bracteate at base; rachis dark, sinooth, 
rounded, geniculate, ultimate branchlets filiform, wavy. Spikelets about :35 in. long, 
pedieellate, drooping, with 2 empty glumes, | fertile flower and a termina] free rachilla 
or imperfect flower, hard, somewhat scabrous; empty glumes 2, oblong, thin, membranous, 
the lower about 1 in., the upper about 2 in. long; the lower 3-nerved, hairy at tip, the 
upper 5-пегуед, mucronate; flowering glume large, hard, broadly ovate, involute, angled, 
with 3 prominent nerves, scabrous between them; palea thick, 2-keeled, glabrous, its tip 
somewhat prolonged, hirsute. Lodicules 3, thickened at base and coloured, obovate, acute or 
rounded, thin, fimbriate, 3—5-nerved. Stumens exserted, anthers sub-acute. Ovary ellipsoid 
glabrous, surmounted by a short style, early dividing into 2 rather short plumose stigmas, 
Caryopsis elliptic, *3 in. long, dark, smooth, tipped with the pointed base of the style. 
Eastern Himalaya in Sikkim and Bhutan: collected by Hooker at Yoksun, 4,000 
to 6,800 ft. in 1848; again in flower by R. Pantling, of the Calcutta Botanic 
Garden, at Choongthang, 5,600 ft., іп 1885; and by С. A. Gammie in the Gheet 
Valley, British Bhutan, 6,000 ft., in 1892. 
This is a very pretty species which ought to be cultivated, and should thrive well 
in places in Europe which are sheltered from frost. It is known as Singhani (Nepalese) ; 
Prong (Lepcha). The large leaves, bluish thin-walled culms and spikelets with I 
flower distinguish it easily. 
Pirate No. 15.—Arundinaria Hookeriana, Munro. 1, leaf-branch; 2, flowering branch; 
3, node of culm—natural size; 4, culm-sheath—reduced to 4; 5, imperfect blade and ligule 
of culm-sheath, under surface—natural size; 6, leaf-sheath and ligule; 7, spikelet; 8 & 9; 
empty glumes; 10, flowering glume; 11, palea and stamens with imperfect flower; 12, 
lodicules and ovary with stigmas; 13, caryopsis—enlarged, (Nos. 3, 4, from my own 
specimens, No. 5 from Mr. С. A. Gammie’s, the rest from Mr. В. Pantling’s). 
SECTION III. 
15, ARUNDINARIA SPATHIFLORA, Trin. in Мет. Acad. Petersb. Ser. vi. їі, ii (1835), 617. 
_А gregarious, cespitose, shrubby bamboo. Culms 12 to 20 feet high, “5 to “8 in. in 
diameter, smooth, glaucous-green with white scurf at first, afterwards turning yellow 
and even reddish-brown, upper joints darker coloured ; nodes prominent, but not much 
raised, marked by a whitish ring; internodes 6 to 15 in. long; branchlets chiefly from 
upper nodes, much jointed and bearing straw-coloured sheaths at the joints, Culm-sheaths 
loose, glabrous, coriaceous, straw-coloured, striate without, very smooth within, ciliate 
on the margins, the edges parallel till near the top, where they are slightly narrowed 
convexly into a truncately rounded mouth “5 to 7 in. broad and with a few stiff bristles; 
imperfect blade 2 to 4 im. long by about "3 in. broad, subulate, erect, decurrent on the 
sheath; ligule "1 in. broad, fimbriate. Leaves clustered in groups of 2 to 4 at the 
ends of short-jointed branchlets which bear loose, narrow, yellow sheaths, 3 to 5 in. 
long, 4 to :6 in. broad, linear-lanceolate, attenuate at base into a 1 to 2 in. long 
petiole; ending above in an acute hairy point; smooth on both surfaces, sometimes 
slightly hairy below, scabrous on both margins; main vein narrow, not prominent, 
secondary veins 3 to 5 pairs, intermediate 5 to 7, transverse veinlets very prominent 
and regularly tessellate, raised beneath, sometimes oblique; leaf-sheaths 10080, 2-3 in. 
Ann. Вот. Вот. Garp. Catcurra, Vor. VII. 
