382 OLXxiii. GBiMiNE^. {BamhusecB, Gamble.) \_Arundinaria. 



15. A. Hookeriana? Munro in Trans. Linn. Soc. i-kmi. (186S) 29 ; 

 stems 15-20 ft. slender, nodes not much swollen ringed by the base of the 

 sheath, leayes 6-12 by 4-l| in. narrowed into a swollen petiole, nerves 4-8 

 pairs with oblique transverse pellucid glands not tessellate, sheath glabrous 

 minutely ciliate, ligule long, infl. of loosely fascicled falcate bracteate 

 panicles, spibelets drooping 1-fld., fl. gl. large broadly ovate S-nerved. 

 Gamble Bamb. Brit. Ind. 17, t. 15. 



Eastern HiMALiYA, alt. 4-7000 ft. ; Sikkim and TV. Bhotan, J. D. fl., Qammie, 

 &c. 



Ste-iYis 15-20 coespitose, glaucous green, with wbite scarf when young ; older inter- 

 nodes 8 by |-li in., with a dark blueish ring at the top, often striped green and 

 yellow, walls -Jj in. thick; stem-sheaths often 12-24 in. by 3-6 in. broad at the base, 

 narrowed upwards and truncate ; blade 3-6 in., linear ; ligule xg— §■ in., depressed in 

 the middle. Leaves glaucous green when young, upper surface and margins scabrid ; 

 sheath ending in a broad callus and thin naked membrane. Infl. loose, on s^eparate 

 stems. Spiicelets about J in., pedicelled ; gl. I -jij in., 3-nerved, tip hairy; II i in. 

 B-nerved, mucronate ; fl. gl. hard, involute, angled, scabrous between the nerves ; 

 palea glabrous, tip hirsute. Grain ellipsoid. 



Sect. III. Erect shrubs. Inflorescence usually in leafy panicles ; bracts 

 large. 



16. A. spathiflora, Trin. in Mem. Acad. Petersh. Ser. VI. iii. II. 

 (1835) 617, Sp. Oram. Id. 360; stem-sheaths oblong tip rounded, leaves 

 2-4 at the end of the branchep, 3-5 by j-J in. linear-lanceolate tessellate, 

 sheath loose, bracts enclosing 2-3 compressed 4-8-fld. spitelets, gl. I short 

 obtuse, II long-mucronate, flg. gls. 4-5 ovate long-acuminate, palea very 

 short. Brnprecht. Bamb. 24, t. 2, f. 5 ; Steud. Fyn. Gram. 334; Bramdis in 

 Ind. Forester, xii. 206 ; Gamble Bamb. Brit. Ind. 17, t. 16 ; Mitford, 

 The Bamboo Garden, 172. A. prncera. Wall. mss. Thamnocalamus 

 spathiflorus, Afwriro ire IVaws. Linn. Soc. xivi. (1868) Si, partly; Brandis 

 For. Flor. 563. Bambusa macro, Wall, in Herb. Rook, [ex Munro). — Gen. 

 Nov. Wall. Oat. n. 5041. 



Western Himalaya ; from the Sutlej to Nepal, alt. 7-9000 ft., Wallich, &c. 



A gregarious shrub 12-20 ft. high. Stim J-f in. diam., smooth, young glaucous 

 green and scurfy, older yellow or reddish-brown, nodes prominent, interubdes 6-15 in., 

 branchlets chiefly from the upper nodes, leafing branches with loose yellow sheaths 

 3-5 by J-f in. Siem- sheaths loose, glabrous, margins ciliate, mouth J-f in. broad, 

 with a few stiff bristles ; ligule J5 in., fimbriate. Leaves shortly petioled, base 

 narrowed, tip acute hairy ; sheath 2-3 in., truncate, auricles bristly callus 

 narrow, ciliate; ligule long-ciliate. Infl. usually on leafless stems, branches 

 fascicled drooping, with narrow papery sheaths, IJ-S in. long. Spikelets 1-24 in., 

 pedicelled ; raihilla long, clavate, tip hairy ; gl. I aud II linear-lanceolate, glabrous ; 

 fl. gls. i-l in. scabrous. — Distinguished from A. falcata by the tessellate leaves, and 

 from jaunsarensis by the short rhizomes and tufted habit. 



17. A. aristata, Gamble Bamb. Brit. Ind. 18, t. 17 ; stem-sheaths 

 narrowed to a broad rounded top, leaves fascicled on jointed purple branch- 

 lets oblong-lanceolate tessellate, sheath loose keeled with a thickened spongy 

 callus below the petiole, bracts of infl. broad enclosing 3-5 compressed 

 4-8-fld. spikelets, gl. I and II oblong-lanceolate scabrous 5-7-uerved, fl. 

 gls. ovate long acuminate, palea nearly as long. Thamnocalamus spathi- 

 florus, Munro in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxvi. (1868) Si, partly. 



