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branched from the base; nodes rather prominently thickened ; internodes usually 8 to 
15 in. long. Culm-sheaths green at first, then yellow, stiff, glabrous, striate, 4 to 6 in. 
long, 2 to 3 in. broad, slightly attenuate upwards and rounded at the top; imperfect 
blade 2 to 3 in. long, linear, acuminate, decurrent at the base on either side along the 
rounded part of the sheath, somewhat black, appressed-hairy or glabrous above, hairy 
beneath, deciduously ciliate on the edges; ligule narrow, entire. Leaves distichous, 2 to 
4 in. long, 5 in. broad, linear-lanceolate ; narrowed in a rounded or slightly tapering 
base into a very short petiole; above ending in a subulate twisted point; smooth above, 
whitish or glabrous and minutely pubescent beneath; main vein faint, pale beneath, 
secondary veins 3 to 6, intermediate 7 to 8, по transverse veinlets, but very faint 
pellucid glands; /eaf-sheaths smooth, striate, ending in a prominent callus and auricled 
at the mouth, the auricle fringed with a few long stiff bristles; ligule short. Jn- 
Jlorescence a, rather short, diffuse, leafy panicle with few spikelets solitary or clustered. 
Spikelets “5 to 15 in. long, 2 in. broad, very glabrous, straw-coloured, bearing 5 or 
more flowers, separated by glabrous, flattened, “1 to "2 in. long rachille, the terminal 
flower only imperfect; empty glumes попе, or very rarely one; flowering glumes *6 to 7 
in., glabrous, many-nerved, ovate-acute ; palea shorter than flowering glume, 2-keeled, 
minutely ciliate only at the tip, many-nerved. Гофкиез 3, unequal, “1 to ‘2 in. long, 
entire, linear, somewhat concave or thickened below, usually 2-nerved. Stamens exserted, 
pendulous ; anthers blunt or slightly apiculate, yellow. Ovary obovate, rough, pubescent 
above; style very short, almost immediately dividing into 3 long feathery stigmas. Cary- 
opsis elliptic, furrowed, roughly hairy above, and ending in a short beak, Пот, Fi. 
Ind. ii. 190; Herb. Ham. in Wall. Cat. 5036; Munro in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxvi. 89; Kurz 
For. Fl. Burma ii. 551: Ind. Forester i. 339; Voigt Hort. Sub. Cale. 719. BAMBUSA 
GLAUCA, Loddig. Cat. et Lindl. in Penny Сус. (1835); Schultes Syst. Veg. vii. 1355 ; 
BAMBUSA CÆSIA, Sieb. $ Zucc., according to Munro, DAMBUSA  GLAUCESCENS, Sieb. Cat., 
fide Munro. BAMBUSA STERILIS, Kurz in Mig. Апп. Mus. Во. Lugd. Bat. ii. 985. 
BAMBUSA VIRIDI-GLAUCESCENs, Carr, in Ве». Horlic. (1869) 292. Івснгкоснтол FLORIBUNDA, 
Визе іп Mig, Pl. Jungh. 390; Mig. РІ. Ind. Bat. ii. 492.  ARUNDINARIA GLAUCESCENS, 
P. de Beaw. Agros. 144; Rim. and Sch. Syst. Veg. ii. 846; Nees Agros. Bras. 526 ; 
Kunth Enum. 426; Rupr. Bamb. 23, tab. 1, fig. 3; Hassk. Cat. Hort. Bogor. (1841) 19; 
 Steudel Syn. 334; Zoll. Cat. 56; Mig. Fl. Ind. Bat. ii. 413; Munro in Trans. Linn. 
Soc. xxvi. 22. LUDOLFIA GLAUCESCENS, Willd. Mag. Gesellsch. Nat. Freunde Berlin (1808 J 
390 ; Sprneg. Syst. Veg. i. 328; Link Hort. Berol. 1. 102, ii. 308. PANICUM ARBORESCENS, 
Lam. Enc. Meth. iv. 749. PANICUM ARBORESCENS, Linn. according to Nees., but Munro points 
out that Вот. and Sch. say P. ARBORESCENS and GLAUCESCENS, Lam. and of gardens, 
not of Linn, TRIGLOSSUM ARUNDINACEUM, Fisch, and Кот. and Sch. Syst. Veg. 846. 
A native of China and Japan, cultivated in India, Malaya, and Ceylon in various 
places, such as the Royal Botanic Gardens at Calcutta and Peradeniya, in Chittagong, 
Madras, Rangoon, Singapore and elsewhere. The Chinese bamboo.  . 
I have been in.doubt whether to describe this species, but as it is admitted by 
Roxburgh and Kurz, I think it best to include it, and to figure it, as also the similarly 
introduced and more common Bambusa vulgaris. lt makes excellent stiff, closely-grow- 
ing hedges, and is hardy. Kurz gives the Burmese name as Pa-lau-pinan-wa, and the 
Malay names as Bamboo tjcenah aloos, bamboo hower tjeenah. Specimens sent by L. Wray 
Јане (Хо. 1560) from Gunong Brumbu, Pahang, 7,000 feet, give the Malay паше as 
Bulu perindu: it is not said whether they were from cultivated plants or not. 
Ann. Roy. Bor. Garp. CALCUTTA, Vor. VII. 
