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INDIAN ВАМВОЗЕЖ; GAMBLE. 
21. ARUNDINARIA SUBERECTA, Munro іп Trans. Linn. Soc. xxvi. 32. 
A graceful, wiry, erect shrub, growing in thick clumps. Culms 10 to 15 ft. high, 
'3 in. in diameter, olive green, smooth; nodes slightly swollen; internodes 6 to 10 in. 
long, cavity very small; branchlets in whorls from the nodes. Culm-sheaths 2 to 6 in. 
long, “5 in. broad at base, thin, papery, striate, glabrous, gradually attenuate upwards to 
a naked or fimbriate mouth ; imperfect blade subulate, leafy, 5 to 15 in. long, recurved ; 
ligule long, fimbriate at tip. Leaves narrow, linear, 2 to 4 in. long, "2 to 3 in. 
broad; narrowed at the base into an extremely short petiole; tip setaceous, edges 
revolute ; smooth above except the scabrous marginal veins, pale beneath; edges 
scabrous serrate; main vein narrow, not conspicuous, secondary veins 3 to 4 pairs, 
intermediate 4 to 5, transverse veinlets none or very scarce, pellucid glands many ; 
leaf-sheaths striate, loose, glabrous or slightly hairy when young, ending in a callus 
and somewhat produced, with a few very deciduous bristles; ligule rather long, pubescent. 
Infloresence, ебе., not known. 
North-East Himalaya and Khasia Hills: collected in 1850 at the Moosmai falls, 
Khasia Hills, 4,000 ft, by Hooker (No. 558); and at Kalapani, 4,500 ft., by- Griffith 
(No. 1407). I also identify as this C. B. Clarke’s No. 19120 from Shillong (which 
I have figured in default of a specimen of the type); G. Mann’s specimen No. 8 from 
the Khasia Hills, 5,000 ft., 1885, named, U-Ladai-namlang, and from the Mahtedu river, 
Jaintia Hills, 4,500, named Lombnang, namlang, gathered in 1889; and those sent by 
Mr. W. A. Kennedy in 1891 to the Caleutta Botanie Garden from Sikkim, though this 
latter has а more hairy leaf-sheath, and more ciliate leaf auricles. 
Used in building native huts. It would probably make excellent fishing rods. 
Рглте No. 24.— Arundinaria suberecta, Munro. 1, leaf-branch; 2, culm; 3 & 4, culm- 
sheaths—of natural size ; 5, leaf-sheath; 6, transverse venation of leaf—enlarged. (Nos. 
1, 5, 6 from C. B. Clarke’s specimens; Nos. 2, 3, 4 from С. Mann’s.) 
25. ARUNDINARIA Kurz, n. sp. Gamble. 
Apparently a bushy shrub, Culms *3 to 4 in, in diameter, smooth ; nodes marked 
with a thick ring and bearing very numerous, long, wiry, filiform, geniculate branchlets. 
ToS very thin, linear-lanceolate, 2 to 4 in, long, 2 to З in. broad, tapering 
unequally at base into а very short petiole; acute above with a short point; smooth 
on both surfaces except for a few long white bulbous-based hairs on the veins 
beneath; edges smooth; main vein thin pale, secondary veins 2 pairs, intermediate 
5 to 6, transverse veinlets very few and inconspicuous ; leaf-sheaths slender, striate, 
ending in a small callus and slightly produced at the edges, and furnished with a few 
thin cilize ; ligule short, sometimes ciliate. Inflorescence, &c., not known. 
= Coasts of Southern Burma: collected by Kurz on his last tour іп 1878. 
It is not quite certain in what exact locality this was gathered, but the plant 
is quite unlike any other species of the eastern region, though it comes near to 
A. faleata of the Western Himalayas. It is remarkable for its very thin leayes and 
geniculate pale branchlets. | 
Рглте No. 25.— Arundinaria Kurzii, Gamble. 1, leaf branchlets with part of culm. 
Ах». Вот. Bor. Garp. CALCUTTA, Yor. VII. 
