20 ANNALS OF THE ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN, CALCUTTA. 
Рглте No. 17.— Arundinaria aristata, Gamble. 1, leaf-branch; 2, flowering branch; 
3, young shoot showing culm-sheaths—of natural size; 4, leaf-sheath; 5; bract with 
spikelet; 6, spikelet spread out—much enlarged; Т, palea; 8, lodicules; 9, anther ; 
10, ovary and stigmas; 11, transverse venation of leaf—enlarged. (No. 1 from 
H. C. Levinge’s specimen; rest from С. В. Clarke’s.) 
17. ARUNDINARIA FarcoxERr Bth. and Hook. fil. Gen. Pl. ii, 1208. 
A tall shrubby bamboo. Culms fistular, probably 12 to 15 ft. high, “6 to "8 in. in 
diameter, smooth when young, covered with white scurf when old, frequently striped 
yellow and green; node raised at the joint and marked below it by the persistent base 
of the fallen sheath; internodes 8 to 15 in. long, walls 715 in. thick, branches many 
from the nodes, fistulam, joined with braeteate sheaths. Culm-sheaths striate, hairy when 
young, papery, straw-coloured when older, sometimes striped, 8 to 12 in. long, 2 to 3 in. 
broad, ciliate on the edges, narrowed only at the top convexly into a truncate "8 to 4 
in. broad mouth; imperfect blade subulate, recurved, З to 5 in. long, "2 to "3 in. broad; 
ligule narrow, dark-coloured, hairy. Leaves soft, thin, dull green, oblong-lanceolate, 3 
to 6 in. long, 5 to 8 in. broad, rounded or narrowed at the base into а "1 in. long 
petiole; smooth on both surfaces, scabrous on the edges; main vein not prominent, 
secondary veins 3 to 4, inconspicuous, intermediate 5 to 7, no regular transverse veinlets, 
but few pellucid glands having that appearance beneath; leaf-sheaths glabrous, striate, 
ciliate on the edges, ending in a minutely ciliate narrow callus below the petiole; ligule 
rounded, hairy, elongate. Inflorescence in large leafy panicles with racemose branchlets, 
bearing, clustered at the nodes of a slender geniculate rachis and supported by 2 to 4 
or more chaffy bracts, one or more racemes of spikelets 1 in. long; bracts ovate-lanceolate, 
up to 1 in. long, truncate at tip or with a very small imperfect blade; rachis of raceme 
sinuously curved, flattened. Spikelets 5 to 7 in the raceme; l-flowered with a terminal 
free rachilla bearing a very minute imperfect flower; rachilla with a ring of. hairs below 
the flowering glume; ¿mpi glumes 2, membranous, oblong, acute or mucronate, 3- to 
5-nerved, the midrib prominent, more than half the length of the spikelet; flowering 
glumes ovate-lanceolate, 5—7-nerved, shortly mucronate, ciliate at the tip; palea as long 
or longer, 2-keeled, keels glabrous except at the very tip, shortly bi-mucronate, 1-пегуед 
on either side of keel. Lodicules 3, oblong, or obovate, acute, 3—5-veined, ciliate 
on the edges, one rather shorter and smaller. Stamens exserted, anthers obtuse or very 
shortly apiculate, purple. Ovary ovate, glabrous, elongated into a thick style, which 
is finally divided into 3 long plumose stigmas. Caryopsis linear-oblong, furrowed on 
one side, shortly acute. THamNnocatamus Fatconert, Hook. fil. MNS., Munro in Trans. 
Linn, Sw. xxvi. 34; Brandis For. Flora 563 BAMBUSA FLORIBUNDA, Munro in Herb. 
Trin. Coll. Dubl.  Bampusorwes,” Wall. Cat. 5040. 
Himalayan range from Kumaon to Bhutan: collected by Wallich in Nepal in 1821; 
by Strachey and Winterbottom at the Madhari Pass, Kumaon, 8,000 ft.; by Dr. Jamieson 
(Saharanpur Garden collection); by С. B. Clarke in Sikkim at Laghep, 9,000 ft., in 
1816 (No. 27760); by T. Anderson at Senchal, Darjeeling, 7,000 ft, in 1868; by 
G. А. Gammie at Tendong, 7,000 ft., and by myself near Darjeeling. 
This species is very little known: it is clearly a Nepalese kind chiefly, and 
only just extends eastwards into Bhutan and westwards into Kumaon. The dates of 
flowering are given by Wallich’s collection of 1821 and С. B. Clarke's of 1876, 
