28 COLONEL MUNRO'S MONOGRAPH OF THE BAMBUSACE^. 



fulls of snow, which protect its perennial roots from excessive frost. This does not, how- 

 ever belone to the «»enus Bambusa, but is nearly allied to Chusquea of Humboldt, found 



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in the cold mountains of Quito and Santa Pe de Bogota." This plant has an extensive 

 rano-e in the Himalayas, as will be seen from the various localities quoted above. Fal- 

 eoner's herbarium contains numerous specimens of it in various stages of growth ; and 

 it may therefore be the plant he intended as " Thamnocalamus," and not the one which 

 I have described as a genus under that name. This species approaches very closely to 

 A. Khasidna, which is best distinguished from it by having leaves quite smooth below, and 

 by the violet colour of the stem and branches, whilst in A. falcata the whole plant has a pale 

 yellowish hue, except in the young spicule and vaginse, which are occasionally purplish. 



'2(). A. Kiiasiana, Munro. Culmo florente aphyllo ; ramulis plerumque compositis, 



longis, ssepe 1 J-2-pedalibus, validis ; spiculis, nisi terminali, brevi-pedicellatis, 2-3- 

 floris, glumis nervosis flosculo inferiore multo brevioribus ; foliis ansrustis, subtus 



glaberrimis 



Griffith, no. 1058 ! j Churra ! Syong, no. 1466 ! j alt. 5700 ped 



IC 



Hooker !; Assam 1089 ! Masters. " Namlang " incolis, fide Hooker, v. s. 



Imus inermis, gracilis, 8-12-pedalis" Griff.), internodiis valde variabilibus, 2-6 poll, longis, in florente 



juvcnili approximatissimis, ramulis foliiferis violascentibus. Folia subtus glaberrima viridia, oete- 

 roquin ut in A . falcata 



gata obtusa. Panicula falcata, ramosa, semper brevis, 1| 



ula sseoe elon- 



basi 



uodos culmi vel ramulorum proliferorum dense aggregate, spiculis 5-7, pedicellis omnibus, nisi termi- 

 nali, brevibus, crassis, infimis 1-2 fere obsoletis (spiculse subsessiles) . Spicule fc-3-flane, sap.- nigre- 

 scentes, articulis brevibus albo hirsutis. 



membra 



nacea; superior 5-7-9-nervis, apice brevissime mucronata, dimidium flosculi infimi nunquam attin- 

 gens. Palea inferior nervosa, nervis 7-9 validis, apice brevissime mucronata, mareine ciliata et Uteri- 



Sqitamulce 



semp 



basi coloratae, nervosa;, apice longe fimbriata;, obtusie vel subacute. Stylus in stigmata 2 vix longc 

 plumosa cito bifidus, interdum crure uno iterum divisus. Ovarium lmcari-oblongum, basi attnmatum. 



As already stated above, this species is very closely allied to A. falcata ; but it has 

 « 1 ways a different look. The leaves are invariably glabrous below ; the glumes are also 

 much shorter than in A. falcata, as also are the spicule and pedicels. Tbe branches of 

 the panicle are much denser and more imbricated ; and the plant appears to be of stronger 



growth generally. The specimens which I have seen were collected in August and 



October ; and therefore, having never seen young states of the plant, I do not k now 

 whether the branches are ever simple, as they are in the early growths of A. falcata. 



81. A. intekmsdia, Munro. Culmo florente aphyllo?, ramulis inferioribus compositis basi 



longe nudis, supenoribus fere sessilibus, paniculis sa,pe compositis, longis, pleru mque 

 rectts, sptcuhs 3-5-flor s, glabris, foliis lanceolato-linearibus, supra scabris, 6-12 lin. 

 latts, venuhs transversa subtus plus minus conspicuis, petiolo supra hirsute. 



Hab. Sikkim ! alt. 7 



m., Hooker 



fistulosus 



glabris, ramulis foliiferis 



pedalibus, 2-4-nodosis, floriferis supremia 



