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T. Anderson's specimens bear the name Pummoon (Lepcha and С. A. Gammie's that 
of Pao ming, which presumably is the same. The small sheaths enclosing short sinuous 
racemes of l-flowered spikelets, with the absence of regular transverse veins to the 
leaves, at once characterize this species. Judging from the figure and description, this 
is the A. falata, Nees, of Rivières ‘Les Bambous,’ page 308. It is regularly 
cultivated in Europe, and, according to a letter by Dr. M. T. Masters in Nature of 
January 20, 1881, flowered gregariously a few years previously. 
РгАтЕ No. 18.—Arundinaria Falconeri, Bth. and Hook. fil. 1, leaf-branch; 2, flowering 
branch—of natural size; 3, culm-sheath—reduced to 1; 4, bracts and raceme of spikelets ; 
5, spikelet; 6 & 7, empty glumes; 8, flowering glume; 9, palea; 10, lodicules ; 11, anther; 
12, ovary and style with stigmas; 13, caryopsis—enlarged. (No. 3 from G. А. Gammie's, 
rest from C. B. Clarke's specimens.) 
SECTION IV. 
18. ARUNDINARIA Рвлтхп, Gamble. 
A small wiry climbing shrub. Culms thin, slender, smooth, yellowish, curving, up 
to 30 ft. long, 2 to 3 in. in diameter; nodes swollen in a well-marked ring; internodes 
short, usually 8 to 9 in. long, longer in the middle, decreasing upwards, walls thick, 
often quite solid, branchlets fasciculate from the nodes, the leaves becoming smaller 
upwards and finally very much reduced, aciculate. Culm-sheaths thin, somewhat scabrous 
above, 2 to 6 in. long, “4 to "8 in. broad, attenuate convexly in the upper half to 
a very narrow point; imperfect blade short, '1 to *2 in., needle-like; ligule short, rounded. 
Leaves small, thin, oblong-lanceolate, 2 to 4 in. long, 3 to 7 in. broad; rounded at 
the base into a short `! in. long petiole; ending above in long curved setaceous 
points glabrous on both sides; one edge scabrous ; main vein scarcely prominent, secondary 
veins 2 to 3 pairs, intermediate 4 to 7, transverse veinlets попе; Jleaf-sheath striate, 
smooth, ending in a prominent glabrous callus below the petiole and produced upwards 
at the sides; ligule long, rounded, blunt. Inflorescence in terminal or axillary panicles 
bearing distant spikelets in the axils of sheath-like straw-coloured bracts; rachis very 
slender, wiry, smooth, geniculate. Spikelets 1 to 14 in. long, on slender pedicels, bearing 
2 to 3 empty glumes, 3 to 6 fertile flowers and a terminal imperfect flower, distichously 
arranged on alternate sides of a wiry flexuouse rachis; rachille clavate, flattened; 
empty glumes usually 2, the lower l-keeled, ciliate on the edges, lanceolate, the upper 
‘ovate, acute, 3—5-nerved, ciliate on the tip; lowering glumes triangular, falcate, acute, 
glabrous, 9- to ll-nerved, nerves prominent; раа falcate, as long as flowering glume, 
9-keeled, minutely ciliate on the keels, and at the acute or bifid apex. Lodicules 3, two 
broadly ovate, 3-nerved, faintly ciliate, the third lanceolate acute, 1—3-nerved. Stamens 6, 
hardly exserted, anthers purple, bluntly apiculate. Ovary oblong, hairy above; style thick, 
bulbous at the base, papillose ; stigmas 3, plumose. Caryopsis not known. MICROCALAMUS 
PRAINII, Gamble in Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, Vol. lix и. 907, Pl. vii. 
Naga and Jaintia Hills in Assam, found by Dr. D. Prain in flower at Pulinabadza, 
7,870 ft, Naga Hills in 1856, on the edge of a precipice; and by G. Mann on the 
Jarain road, about 5% miles from Јожа, Jaintia Hills, 3,500 ft., in 1889. I also 
identify. with this the specimens collected by Mr. James Rollo in the Zulla Valley, 
Хара Hills, 5,400 ft, in 1891. | 
