32 COLONEL MUNRO'S MONOGRAPH OF THE BAMRUSACEiE 



I have seen only one specimen of this, collected by Hinds ; and it seems curious that 

 so conspicuous a plant should not have attracted the attention of other collectors. The 

 very narrow, dark-coloured, conspicuously tessellated leaves at once distinguish it from 

 A. longiramea, the only other species of Arundinaria which I have seen from Hon 

 bong*. It does not closely resemble any Arundinaria I am acquainted with. 



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27. A. densifolia, Munro. Foliis sessilibus, lanceolatis, spinoso-acuminatis, densis, 



brevibus, 1-4 lin. latis, ±-l\ poll, longis, margine cartilagineo pulchre fimbriate), 

 utrinque glabris, vaginis striatis, interstitiis hirsutis, apice efimbriatis. 



I lab. Ceylon, Watson, no. 25 ! Dr. Maxwell ! ; Pedrotalagalla (in paludosis), Thomson ! v. s. 



Culmm J-3-pedalis, internodiis numerosis subsesquipollicaribus, spathis coloratis dorso hirsutis superatus, 



ramulis virgatis, 5-8, brevibus, ad nodos glabros, fastigiatis. 



bre 



nervi s 



darns mconspicms, venulis transversis sat crebris, interstitiis impressis subquadratis, interdum, nisi 

 foha madida sint, ha> venule occulta sunt. Vagina breves, striate, interstitiis pilis 

 apice efimbriate vel brevissime ciliate, ligula inconspicua. 



ublon 



are 



This may possibly be a peculiar state of A. Walkeriana, as I have already suggested 

 describing that species at p. 22. I think, however, that the absence of cilia (which 



generally more conspicuous in young than in old states of Bamboo), the extremely 



mal leaves with such very long point,, the absence of any distinct secondary nerves, 

 and the occasionally obscure tessellation of the leaves, afford good marks of distinction. 



28 ' t!SS^ ?T-- MiS ParViS ' ^-ri- 1 — olatis vel fere lanceolatis, 1-2 



"o va"ni ^ ^\ f^"'"^ ™V™ submembranaeeo fimbriate vel 

 glabro, vagmis striatis sublursut is apice lon»e fimbria*™ n , i ■ in 



Griffith, Jour. i. 242, 259 et alibi (nomen tantum) ^oropl.ylla, 



tsjr^srjsf' 2_ r pou : ! ongis ' g,aberrimis ' — - 1 »*» — — 



.-£££ rs^iar^ to B r • co rr b refers to this 



1 n describing the vegetation of t J ™ , , MS laige '' iltches in wet l llaces -" 



-.000 feet. Ld il— rat 0^2^ t T "S ?"* C ~ * 

 merophstta." This and tb P „™„T Principally clothed with the Bomlmfi 



I am aclinteu witl * ^ ^ ^ the Smallcst »«™» of all I he Bamboos 



F :btS US Vk diStinCte teSSeUata > — transversis paueis distantibus vel sub- 



^ tfTTl MUnr °- ** Wolato-linearibus. ., 



poll, longis, utrinque 



striatis, glabr^ an ce 1„ fl I" " taWend8 <* Uam "***> 



g abns, ap 1C e longe fimbnatis et s*p e biaurieulatis 



gustis, sub 3 lin. latis. 2-3 



consp 



