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Hab. In Himalaya, in montibus Khasise, Moosmai-Churnt, alt. 4000 p. s. m., Griffith 



Hook 



Culmus " 10-15-pedalis, suberectus, nutans," vix fistulosus, intcrnodiis glabaiimii 4-6 poll, lonps. 



ramulis proliferis 5-9 poll, longis ad nodos glabros fasciculatis. Folia angusta, subsotacco-acuminata, 



basi attCMUata. TTiar! r lllf> IIIMI n.lt.f»rnvr» hrpvw«imn aorrn f n nnn nri\ r\r i n namaim iMnnJainid ntmmmvn 9 





;oncoloria, nervis sccundariis utriuquc 3-4, 

 *c dist'cTiu'iulis. Vagina striata-, usque ad 



basin solutae, glabrae, mcmbrana brevissirae ciliata terminate, apicc longe fimbriatae vol interdum 



biauriculatse, ligula conspicua sat brevi. 



This approaches A.fulcata and A. Khasiana in the form and size of the leaves, but it 

 is distinguished from both by the fringe at the top of the vaginae and the presence of 

 transverse veinlets on the lower surface of the leaves ; in this latter respect it approaches 



cely believe it to be a narrow-leaved state. 



A. Hookeriana, of which, however, I can scai 



Griffith certainly mentions that he found it growing on the banks of the Moosmai water 



fall ; and it is well known that plants 

 forms . 



situations often assume pecul 



A. spathiflora, Trim = Thamnocalamus spathijlorus, Munro. 



A. stoloxifera, Kurz, e "China et Jap 



mia," in Cat. of Plants in Bot. Garden 

 Calcutta (1866), = Bambusa puberula, Miq., fide Miquel in Ann. Mus. Bot. Lugd 



Batav. ii. 285, = Phyllostachys nigra, Munro, videj). 38 seq. 



II. THAMNOCALAMrS. 



r, MS. (nomen tantum) in herb. Hooker, et herb. Strachey. 



sursum imperfecta, U-8-flora, in racemo simplici spat ha vel bractea lo?iqissima involucrato. brevi 



pedicellata. 



acutse 



supremam 



basin trifidus. Caryopsis linearis vel la^ 

 Cseteroquin quoad spiculas ut in Arundinaria. 

 Gramina Himalayana, culmo plerumque tere 



Folia parva vel inconspicue vel conspicue 



\ breviores. Palea inferior acuta vel longe 

 Squamulce 3 fimbriate. Stylus cito supra 



Inflorescentia 



ultim 



1-4 





Iconeri 



rarissime circa nodos ramorum 



. The structure of the spicula in this genus is so very similar to that of Arundinaria, 

 that I should not have separated the two following species from that genus had I not 

 been persuaded that so excellent a botanist as the late Dr. Falconer must have had good 

 reasons for separating the genus Thamnocalamus. Unfortunately I can find no defini- 

 tion of the genus by Dr. F., nor any specimen in flower of either species in his herba- 

 rium ; but, as I have already stated, it contains numerous specimens, in all stages of 

 rowth, of Arundinaria falcata, which may therefore be the plant he intended as Tham- 



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nocalamus. It appears to me that this 



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can 



Arundinaria by its infl 



nly be well distinguished from 



described above. The spathes, which sometimes 



hav 



foliaceous appendage, are remarkably persistent in T. spathijl 

 caducous in T Falconeri. 



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