COLONEL MUNRO'S MONOGRAPH OF THE BAMBUSACE^. 21 



dorso glabriusculis vel basi hirsutis. Hamuli ad nodos semiverticillati, superiores (culmi) floriferi 

 fere aphylli, inferiores foliiferi tantum. Folia mrmbranarea, glabra, subtus pallidiora, mar- 

 gine tenui-serrata, lineari-lanceolata, longe setaceo-acuminata, ban attcnuata, 2-6 poll, longa, 4-8 

 lin. lata, nervis secundariis utrinque 4-5, venulis transversis crebris elevatis tessrllata. Vay'u/re 

 striatse, dorso glabra, apice ciliis fimbriate, ligula subbrevi extus hirsute. Panicuia in ramulis 

 subternis (basi bracteis vel spathulis carinis hirsutissimis vaginitis) ad nodos iasciculatis vel 

 aphyllis vel foliis cito deciduis terminalis, 3-4 poll, longa, ramis paucis brevibus (2-3-poll.) 

 demum refractis, axillis hirsuto-glandulosis. Spiculee intra glumas pedicellate, in ramnlis basi 

 incrassatis paucae, plerumque brevissime pedicellate 5-6-flor;e, 1-1£ poll, longa*, anguste, glabra, 

 rhachillae fragilis articulis longis clavatis hirsutis. Glum® acuta}, apice scabne vrl hirsute, inferior 

 basi 5 -nervis, superior longior (4-1 Hin.) 7-nervis. Palea iwicnov acuminatissiina, mucronc caduco, 

 7-8 lin. longa, nervosa, glabra; superior subbrevior, bicarinata, bimucronata, carinis ciliatis. Squfa 

 inula longe fimbriatae, subaequales, vix venosae. Stamina 3, antlieris interdum apice paMCi-*eto$is } 

 connectivo vix elongato. Stylus cito bifidus. Ovarium litieari-oblongum, vix rostratura. 



This species is quite unlike any other known to me, and is well distinguished by its 

 woolly and occasionally prickly nodes. It is the only one, I believe, in the genus with 

 spinous joints or the hairy points to the anthers described above, although these latter 

 appendages are found in many other genera of Bambusaceae. It appears to have been 

 only once found in flower — namely, by the Assam Deputation for the examination of the 

 Tea-plant, under Wallich and Griffith. There is a good specimen (leaves only) in the 

 Kew Museum, No. 605, in which the prickly nodes can be very well seen ; and some 

 unusually large specimens of the nodes are also preserved in spirits. Hooker, in his 

 4 Himalayan Journals,' vol. ii. p. 291, mentions a wood of " prickly Bamboo " near 

 Moflung. 



10. A. Walkebjana, Munro. Paniculae decomposite, ramis adpressis, axillis inferioribus 



glandulosis, superioribus hirsutis ; spiculis 3-4-floris, glabris ; foliis crassis eximie 

 tessellatis, marginibus cartilagineis firnbriatis ; ramulorum sterilium vaginarum ciliis 

 numerosis, plicatis. — A. Wightiana, Thw. in En, PL ZeyL p. 444, non N. ab E. 



Hab. Ceylon, Mrs. Walker, no. 96! 1304! /. Watson, 215 ! \ Adam's Peak, Thwaites, 129!; Pedrotala- 



galla ! Thwaites, 3860 ! v. s. 



supremis 1^ 



-3, interdum 



plurim 



enulis 



s, apice pungentia, basi rotundata, subito petiolata, 2-4 poll, longa, 5-8 lin. lata, glabra, subtus 

 vix pallidiora, margine cartilagineo pilis longis ciliato, nervis secundariis utrinque 5-6. Vagina 

 striata, glabrae, apice quasi subito transverse abscissae, in ramulis (sterilibus praecipue), utrinque ciliis 

 pallidis multis plicatis fimbriatae, ligula brevi. Panicuia decomposita, 4-5 poll, longa ; ramis virgatis, 



angulatis 



3— 4-florae, 10-12 lin. Ionise, intra <dum 



longiore, spiculis brevioribus. Spicule coloratae, glabrae, 

 breviter pedicellatae, callo hirsuto, articulis rhachillae compressis pubescentibus. Gluma vix inaequales, 

 apices versus margine ciliatae ; inferior vix acuta, nervo 1 valido et 4 inconspicuis ; superior nervis 

 3 validis et 4 inconspicnis, acuminata vel fere obtusa. Palea inferior basi pilis stipata, 9-nervis, 

 nervis plurimis ante apicem evanescentibus, glabra, oblonga acuta et ciliata; superior aequalis, apice 

 obtuso vix bifida, subhirsuta, bicarinata, carinis superne ciliatis. 



b 



Squamula 3, membranaceae, obtusae, 

 ciliatae, diue majores. Stylus basi tumidus, in stigmata 



2 lata compressa cito divisus. Ovarium apice constrictum. 



