378 OLXxiii. GRAMiNEiE. (BamhusecB, G-amble.) [Arundinaria. 



braue below the petiole and short auricles with 5-8 twisted bristles ; ligule short. 

 Panicle large, with slender filiform branches appressed at first, axils glandular. 

 Spikelets about 1 in., gl. I J„-i in., acute, 3-nerved, tip ciliate; II longer, more 

 nerved; fl. gls. 3 in., acuminate, 7-9-nerTed, tip ciliate; keels of palea ciliate; grain 

 i in., red. 



tt Spikelets few, in short panicles. 



4. A. elegrans, Kurz in Journ. As. 8oc. Beng. xlii. (1873) 248 ; For. 

 Fl. Burma, ii. 649 ; stems slender, internoies smooth, leaves linear- 

 lanceolate long acuminate tessellately nerved, margins cartilaginous 

 soabrid, spikelets long 7-8- fid. in a terminal interrupted panicle or raceme 

 pedicelled flattened, fl. gls. distant acuminate. Gamble Bamb. Brit. 

 Ind. 6, t. 4. 



Upper Ass.a.m ; Naga Hills, alt. 5500 ft., Uollo. linitltfA, Poneshee, /. Anderson ; 

 Tenasserim and Martaban, alt. 5-7500 ft., Kurz, &c. 



Stems 12-20 ft. high by yVTrV '"• diam. ; internodes 7-9 in., flattened on one 

 side, smooth; sheaths ^ the length of the internodes, papery, hispiduloas, upper ^ 

 narrowed to a truncate minutely auricled mouth ; blade subulate, recurved. Leaves 

 4^5 by -^-i in. , base narrowed into a very short petiole, midrib yellow, primary 

 nerves 4-ti pairs ; sheath smooth, striate, tipped with a ciliate callus, auricles bristly ; 

 ligule very short. Spikelets 1 in. or more ; pi. I and II i in., ovate, acuminate, 

 3-5-nerved, keel ciliate; fl. gls. similar, 7-nerved and transversely nervuled; palea 

 obovate, 2-fid, 2-nerved between the white-oiliate keels and 1-nerved on each side 

 of them. 



6. A. polystachya^ Xurz ex Gamble Bamb. Brit. Ind. 7, t. 5 ; 

 stems soft, leaves thin soft lanceolate acuminate with a twisted tip, rough 

 above white hairy or smooth beneath not or rarely tessellately nerved 

 margins scabrous ligule long, spikelets long 4-6-fld. in a large terminal 

 or axillary racemose leafy panicle with papery bracts, fl. gls. distant 

 ovate long-acuminate. 



Sikkim: Himaiata & the Khasia Hills, alt. 3-5000 ft., Griffith, Eum, Mann, 

 &c. 



A small shrubby bamboo ; stem-sheaths unknown. Leaves 6-8 by -j^l in., 

 base rounded or narrowed, petiole very short, midrib rather broad, principal 

 nerves 5 pairs, with lines of pellucid glands between the secondary, transverse 

 nervules few or ; sheath greenish yellow, striate, glabrous, ending in a broad 2-fid 

 callus, and produced upwards to meet the long striate obtuse fimbriate ligule. 

 Spikelets i— j^ in., rachilla clavate ; gls. I and II ovate, acuminate, 5-7-nerved, 

 keeled and ciliate above; fl. gls. about twice as long, 7-9-nerved, ciliate; palea 

 longer, mucrouate, tip 2-fld, l-nerved between and 1-nerved on each side of the 

 ciliate keels. 



6. A. debilis, Thw. Enwm. Fl. Zeyl. 375 ; shrubby, stems much 

 branched, leaves small linear-lanceolate acute obscurely or not tessellate 

 tip scabrous base acute or subtruncate, ligule short, spikelets short 3-fld., 

 shortly pedicelled in a terminal short leafy panicle, fl. gls. imbricating 

 ovate mucronate. Munro in Trans. lAnn. Soc. xxvi. (1868) 24; Bedd. Fl. 

 Sylv., Forest. Man. p. ccxxx. ; Trim, Cat. Ceyl. Fl. 110; Gamble Bamb. Brit. 

 Ind. 7, t. 6. 



Ceylok ; Central Province, alt. 6-SOOO ft., Thioaites, &o. (C.P. n. 1). 



Stems elongate; nodes rather enlarged, internodes 2-6 in. by ^-^ in. diam., 

 upper smooth yellow shining, lower glabrous or top hispid with long hairs. Leaves 

 1^3 by 1-^ in., glaucous, glabrous, or hairy above glabrous beneath, one or both 

 margins scabrous; midrib thick, primary nerves 2-3 pairs, obscure, transverse 



