386 CLxxxii. QEAMINE.S!. (BamhiiSficE, Gamble.) [^Arundinaria. 



appressed bristles ; lignle narrow, toothed. Leaves papery, base narrowed or rounded, 

 tip tliickened hirsute surmounted by a capillary bristle ; sheath ending on one side 

 in a ronnd shining exauricled callus, on the other in a short pointed auricle with a 

 few bristles ; petiole -wrinkled ; ligule small, hairy, ciliate. — A curious species re- 

 sembling ^. PrainU, remarkable by its long narrow sheaths; its leaves resemble 

 those of Gephalostachyum,. 



133. PKVZiIiOSTACHVS, Sieb. & Zucc. 



Coespitose shrubs. Stems Bmooth, flattened on one side, branches 

 fascicled at the nodes. Stem-sJieafhs rounded above, blade sabnlate. Leaves 

 jointed on the sheath, spinnlose on one margin, tessellate, sheath loose. 

 Infl. of spicate branchlets in a leafy terminal panicle -with imbricating 

 bracts. Spihelets 2-3, l-4^fld. with a terminal imperfect racbilla jointed 

 between the fls. ; empty gls. 2-3, many-nerved, often bearing an imperfect 

 blade ; flg. gls. ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, many-nerved ; palea 2-keeled, 

 many-nerved. Lodicules 2. Stamens 3. Ovary stipitate, rounded, glabrous, 

 style long, stigmas 8. — Species about 20, Eastern Asiatic. 



1. P. bambusoides, Bieh. 8f Zucc. in Ahh. AkaA. Munch, iii. (1843) 

 745, t. 5, f. 3; leaves thin, mouth of sheaths with long bristles. Steud. 

 Syn. Gram. 339 ; Munro in Trans. lAnn. Soc. xxvi. (1868) 36 ; FrancTi. ^ 

 Sam. Enum. PI. Jap. ii. 182 ; Gamble Bamb. Brit. Ind. 27, t. 27 ; Mitford, 

 The Bamb. Gard. 155. P. megastachya, Steud. I. o. Bambusa reticulata, 

 Bupr. Bamb. 58. B. bifolia, Sieb. mss. ex Munro. 



Uppbe Assam; Mishmi Hills (without flowers), Griffith. — Distkie. China, 

 Japan. 



Stems 10-12 ft., J— | in. diam., graceful, smooth, yellow, nodes glabrous, inter- 

 nodes short, branches semiverticillate. Stem-sheaths 6-10 in., thin, top contracted 

 into a short neck then rounded and truncate, margins produced to meet the lignle 

 with a few bristles; blade subulate; lignle long, toothed. Lea/ves 3-4 by 4-J in., 

 oblong-lanceolate, tip setaceous, glaucous and with stiff white hairs beneath, nerves 

 5-6-pairs ; petiole black, hairy ; sheath keeled, ciliate on one margin, mouth with 

 bristles on a short auricle ; ligule rouuded. Brads of infl. short, obtuse, sheathing 

 3-5 spikelets and with an imperfect blade. Spikelets 1-1 J in. ; gl. I very largp, 

 sheath-like, truncate, with a green cordate blade; II oblique, keeled, few-nerved, 

 keels ciliate; flg. gls. f in., ovate, acuminate, many-nerved; palea as long. — 

 Description from Hongkong specimens. 



2. P. IHannii, Gamble Bamb. Brit. Ind. 28, t. 28 ; leaves thick, mouth 

 of sheath nearly naked. 



Khasia Hills, alt. 5000 ft., cult, (said to have come from the Naga Hills), 

 Mann. 



Stems 15-20 ft. by 1-li in. diam. ; internodes 8 in., yellow. Stem-sheaths 

 papery, 8-9 by 1-2 in., top rounded and truncate ; blade 2-3 in., subulate ; ligule 

 broad, pectinate. Leaves 4r-o by J-J in., base rounded, tip shortly acuminate, 

 glabrous or nearly so, one margin spinulose-serrate, eosta prominent, nerves 5 pairs ; 

 sheath loose, ending in a narrow ciliate callus with a few bristles; ligule broad, 

 long-pectinate. Infl. unknown. 



134. BADXSVSA, Schreb. 



Shrubs or trees, usually large and coespitose, rarely cUmbing; stem- 

 sheaths broad, blade often triangular. Leaves shortly petioled not tessel 

 late by nervules, but sometimes by pellucid glands, sheaths variously 



