30 COLONEL MUNRO'S MONOGRAPH OF THE BAMBUSACE.E. 



Journals, ' Dr. Hooker states that he found a plant of " Praong " at the top of the pass 

 ahove M Neongong," at an elevation of 6800 feet, in full seed ; and adds, " The ' Praong' 

 sends up many flowering branches, and but few leaf-bearing ones from the roots ; and 

 after maturing its seed, and giving off suckers from the root, the parent plant dies. 

 The fruit is boiled, and made into cakes or into beer." 



Arundinahl-e cognitce steriles (foliiferce tcrntum), igiturque, quoad genus, dubice. 



* 



Folia supra subtusque perspicue tessellata, venulis transversis creberrimis, interstitiis 

 in A. callosa et A. Hindsii oblongis, in reliquis fere quadratis. 



23. A. callosa, Munro. Poliis lineari-lanceolatis, 8-12-17 lin. latis, 8-9 poll, longis, 



margine membranaceo, venulis transversis subdistantibus, petiolo basi celloso. 



Hab. Himalaya in montibus Khasia, Moflong 



cc 



• 



prickly -jointed Bamboo") ; My- 



incolis. Hooker 



Culmus " 12-pedalis/'internodiis apices versus interdum " 



[Hooker) 



flavo-hirsutis, nodis prominulis glaberrimis. Folia lineari-lanceolata apice longe acuminata, basi 



subcuncata et attenuata in petiolum flavescentem ima basi callosum, subtus pilosa vel glabra, sub- 

 concoloria, nervis secundariis utrinque 6 conspicuis, venulis transversis crebris elevatis, interstitiis 

 oblongis. Vagina apices versus dense fusco hirsutse, inferne subglabrse, membrana brevissima ciliata 

 terminatae, non auriculatse sed utrinque ciliis sublongis fimbriate, ligula brevi. 



Tbe long leaves, with the secondary nerves very strongly marked, distinguish this at 

 once from all the species of Arundinaria, of which the leaves only are known. In 

 Herb. Hooker, this is marked as « prickly- jointed Bamboo," and it is added that "some 

 of the bearded nodes are preserved in bottles in the Kew Museum." I have already, at 

 p. 21, referred to these curious nodes; but it is possible that they may belong to this 

 species instead of to A. 



iana as I suppose, although [ cannot, in any of the dried 

 specimens, discover traces of any spinous processes, whereas in A. Gnffithiana they are 

 often to be found. * 



24. A. hirsuta, Munro. Foliis lanceolatis, 4-10 vel raro 14 lin. latis, 2-6 poll, longis, 



margine cartilagineo, subtus pallidis hirsutis vel demum glabrescentibus, va^inis 

 plerumque hirsutis, apice auriculis reversis biappendiculatis. 



Hab 



montibus Khasia, Myrung! alt. 5600 p. s. m. «apud saxa," Griffith, Syong! 



Moflong i ouuu p . « m sy[viS} lmmilis culmis inogi « ff k 



Culmus 2-4-pedalis, "fastigiatus ramosus spinosus" [Hooker), int 

 praecipue apices versus) strigoso-hirsutis, nodis ipsis glabris. 



2-4 



mai 



brevem et latum, margine cartilagineo longe fimbriat 



Or 

 S 



a), acutissima, basi 



dratis. 



4-6, venulis transversis creberrini 



a et siepe 



Vnrnnso *^~ 4- .,. , ' " ul,nKl ^ ^cuerriims, lmerstltllS qua- 



V^m sulcata supeme pl hs longis hirsute vel hirsutism, raro dcn.uro glal „,.cc„tes 



