INDIAN BAMBUSE.E ; GAMBLE. 27 
not here described, is probably P. туға, Munro, which is indigenous in China and Japan 
and is cultivated in Europe and in the Indian hills. 
Leaves thin, leaf-sheaths long bristly ciliate at mouth . . . 1. P. bambusoides, 
Leaves thick, leaf-sheaths with hardly any bristles at mouth . . 2. Р. Mannii. 
1. PHYLLOSTACHYS BAMBUSOIDES, Sieb. and Zucc., Abh. Akad. der Phys. Wissensch. 
München їп. 745, tab. 5, fig. З (1843). 
A cespitose shrub. Culms graceful, yellow, smooth, 10 to 12 ft. high, about *5 to 
‘7 in. in diameter or less, flattened on one side in alternate internodes; nodes prominent, 
glabrous; internodes short; branches semi-verticillate from the nodes. Culm-sheaths 6 to 
10 in. long, 1 to 2 in. broad, thin, papery, striate, rounded above into a short neck 
_ and truncate, the margins produced to meet the ligule and furnished with a few 
long stiff сПие; imperfect blade narrow, subulate, recurved; ligule long, blunt, dentate. 
Leaves thin, oblong-lanceolate, 3 to 4 in. long usually, “5 to ‘7 in. broad, rounded at the 
base into a 1 to 2 in. long, black, hairy petiole, ending above in a setaceous point; 
smooth above, glaucous beneath, and with white stiff hairs below; scabrous-serrate on 
one margin; main vein prominent; secondary veins 5 to 6 pairs, intermediate about 7, 
transverse veinlets very numerous, fingly tessellate; laf-sheaths loose, keeled, striate, 
glabrous, ciliate on one edge; usually furnished at the mouth with several long stiff bristles 
on a short auricle; ligule rather prominent, rounded. Jn/florescence a large leafy panicle 
of bracteate spikes of spikelets; the bracts short, obtuse, sheathing, paleaceous with a 
leafy imperfect blade; spikelets in each bract 3 to 5 fertile. Spikelets 1 to 12 in. long, 
1 to 2 in. broad; empty glumes 2, lower very large, sheath-like, bluntly truncate, 
with a foliaceous green cordate blade, which becomes smaller or disappears in the 
upper flowers, upper short, ‘3 in. long, oblique, keeled, ciliate on the keels, few-nerved, 
those of upper flowers longer and more unequal sided, in terminal spikelets sometimes 
wanting; flowering glumes ovate, acuminate, "8 in. long by 3 in. broad; main nerve 
strong, secondary 5 to 6 pairs; palea about as long, narrow, 2-keeled, minutely scabrous, 
ciliate on the keels, bimucronate. Lodicules ovate-lanceolate or ob-lanceolate, sometimes 
emarginate or bifid, shortly ciliate, 3—7-veined, unequal. S/amens very long, exserted, 
drooping; anthers 74 in. long with the connective apiculate. Ovary depressed, ovoid, 
glabrous, stalked at the base, surmounted by a very long 1 in. to 12 in. style, finally 
divided into 3 long, minutely feathery stigmas. Caryopsis not known. Steudel Sym. 
339; Munro in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxvi. 36; Franch. её Sab. Enum. Pl. in Jap. crese. 189. 
Рнупговтаснув MEGASTACHYA, Аи Syn. 339; Walp. Ann. i. 946. BAMBUSA RETICULATA, 
Rupr. Ват. 58. BAMBUSA BIFOLIA, Sieb, MS. (teste Munro). 
North-East Himalaya, Mishmi Hills: collected by Griffith at Premsong’s village— see 
Journ, p. 38.—Distrib China and Japan, cultivated in Europe and elsewhere, e.g. in 
Simla. 
Munro has identified Griffith’s plant with the well-known China and Japan species, 
but apparently no flowers have been seen. I have consequently taken my plate from 
a Hongkong specimen in the Caleutta Herbarium. But G. Mann has sent leaf-speci- 
mens of two species of Рнупговтаснув, one of which seems to agree with this, but 
cannot be certainly identified without flowers, and the other appears to be new (see below). 
Griffith described his plant as ‘a small hard bamboo which forms excellent walking 
sticks. Mann’s specimens were collected from cultivated plants found in the Sibsagar 
А хх. Roy Рот. Garp. Carcutra VoL. VII. 
