748 GRAMINEH (Stapf). | Arudinaria. 
Erect or climbing shrubs ; culms slender ; pg ~~ prominent, meses 
rather short ; branches fascicled at the n odes; blades articulate on the she 
shortly petioled, distinetly transversely ‘aioe panic oP es or racem pees 
leafy, terminal on leafy culms or on separate culins s; spikelets after partially 
enclosed in bract-like sheaths 
About 50 sat in tropical and subtropical Asia and America and iu temperate 
Eastern Asi 
1. A. tesselata (Munro in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxvi. 31); shrubby 
or arborescent, 5-20 ft. high; old culms over 4 lin. thiek below, 
fistulous like the very slender ‘crowded leaf- bearing branches, terete, 
very smooth, internodes of the branches usually less than 2 in. long ; 
sheaths at the base of the branches bladeless or almost so, scarious 
to subscarious, striate, smooth, the rest coriaceous, very tight, 
slightly striate, ciliate along the upper and outer margins and 
fugaciously fimbriate at the mouth, otherwise glabrous; ligules 
short, obtuse or sometimes produced and up to 2 lin. long; “fully 
developed blades 3-4 at the tips of the branches, lanceolate to linear- 
lanceolate from a rounded or attenuated base, shortly acute or long 
transverse veins ¢ ose and Sais very ant ae Kew Rae 
1878, 47. Nastus tesselatus, Nees, Afr. Austr. 463; 
Steud. Syn. Pl. Glum. i. 333; Durand ng par Consp. Fl. Afr. 
v. 944. 
Coast ReGion : Sg li Div. ; Table Mountain, rpg te ft., Drége. 
Stockenstrom sl. ; Kat g, 4000-5000 ft., Drége ! Winter Berg, Ec klon 
ENTRAL GION: Atal North Div. ; én the Witte Bergen, in rocky ode 
valleys, 5000-6000 ft 
KALAWARI eaten’ Basutoland Cooper, mer 
Eastern ReGion: Natal; edge of bush P cae Hoek Pass, 4500 f 
Wood, 3668! s aks places near vie Reenens Teel 8000 ft., Schlechter, ail. 
The position of ss — in Arundinaria is somewhat —— as dhe 
flowers are unknown. It flowers probably like many other Bamboos 
long sigh om No opportunity of collecting flowering specimens Ama ‘here- 
fore be m is the so-called Mountain (Berg) Bamboo of the Drakens- 
be rae it sit owker to ‘‘an unlimited extent, mostly 
0 : e n the most exposed p.”" 
Mountains (Bam , on the border of Albert and Cradock Division, have 
s Berg), on 
most probably derived ire: name ‘hear this species. The canes are much used 
&e. 
Spikelets in sessile —— on gees. branehlets of usually 
large leafless or sometimes leafy compound panicles; rhachilla 
disarticulating above the aeiat and below the valves. Florets 2 
to many, ¢ or the uppermost 3 , or the lower sometimes barren- 
