Arundinaria.] LXXVm. GRAMINE^. 563 



•with solid or nearly solid culms and narrow leaves, tHe other, growing between 

 8000 and 12,000 ft., with shorter, thicker, and hoUow culms and broader leaves, 

 the fohage more feathery, Yem.; Garu girch (PovreU, Panjab, Productsj 618, 

 567). It is' a matter for inquiry whether one of thpse is not ThamnocfdamiU 

 spathiflorus, or another species of Arundinarm. The soM kind is said to Tap 

 the tougher of the two, and is used, when dry, a year after cutting, to support 

 the earth-roofs of the hiU-cottages. It is also made iuto mats and basket-work. 

 The hollow kind is made into shepherds' pipes, fishing-rods, and is exported to 

 the plains for Hooka-tubes ; it is also employed for basket-work. 



The small Bamboo of the NUgiris is A. WigUiana, Nees ; Bedd, Fl. Sylv. 

 Anal. Gen. t. 28; annual stem 6-12 ft. high ; flowers in terminal slender-branched 

 panicles at the end of leaf-bearing culms, spikelets 2-5-flowered, J-J in. long, 

 single, on long filiform peduncles, leaves ' with indistinct transverse veins, 

 sheaths persistent, coriaceous, adpre^sed to branchlets. 



2. THAMNOCALAMUS, Falconer. 



Characters oi Arundinaria, excepting, the bracts subtending the main 

 branches of tbe inflorescence, which' are lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, en- 

 closing tbe racemes of spikelets in bud, and exceeding half their length 

 when fuUy developed. ■ 



Leaves with prominent transverse nerves ; sheathing bracts 3 



, in. long \. T. spathiflorus. 



Leaves without transverse nerves ; sheathing bracts leas than 



1 in. long . . . . . . - . . 2. r. Falcontri. 



1. T. spathiflorus, Mnnio 1. c. 34. — Vern. iZmg-aZZ, Deoban range. 



Stems csespitbse, \ in. diam., intemodes 4-8 in. long^ brown, shining, 

 branches 12-18 in. long, in fascicles or in half -whorls ; the sheaths on 

 young shoots glabrous, with, numerous prominent nerves, fimbriate at tbe 

 mouth and ddges, narrowed somewbat abruptly into a distinct, subulate 

 apex 2 in. long. Leaves 3-5 in. long, J-J in. broad, distinctly petiolate, 

 3 prominent secondary nerves on .either side of 'midiibj transverse nerves 

 conspicuous ; sheath 2 in. long, striated with raised longitudinal lines^ 

 fimbriate at tbe mouth, with a long ligula, persistent after the leaVes 

 fall, forming an acute angle with branches. Flowers in large panicles, 

 with slender drooping branches. Eacemes of 2 or 3 spikelets in the 

 axils of large amplexioaul oblong multinerved bracts 3 in. long. Spike- 

 lets linear-lanceolate, 1-1 J in. long, of 6-8 hairy distinct flowers. _ Einpty 

 glumes 2, white, membranous, glabrous, linear-lanceolate. Articulation 

 of rachis between two flowers |-|- the length of flowering glume. Flower- 

 ing glume i-| in. long, long-acuminate, 7-9-nerved, roughly hirsute, with 

 long hairs afthe base. Palea much shorter than flowering glume, 2-ribbed, 

 with 2 nerves between the ribs, aiid 2 on each side. Scales 3, lanceolate. 

 Stamens 3. Stjle 3-fid.. 



Upper part of Hattu (8400 ft.), T. Thomson Aug 1847. Deobp^ (8000 ft.) 

 D B Mav 1863 Dudatoli in Garhwal (8500 ft.), Strachey and Wmterbottom. 

 In Kamaon, Nepal, and in Sikkim on Mpunt Singalelah at 11,000 ft. ' Hooker. 



2. T. Falconeri, Hook, fil; Munro 1. c. 34. 



