THE RINGAL OF THE NORTH-WESTERN HIMALAYA. lll 
April, 1881, in the ee! of the Manglad, a tributary of the 
Sutlej River (6,000 feet) in May, 1881, at Jannsar in September, 
1878, and at Kula i ~ October, i876. I readily believe that in the 
North-western Him ya the stems are annual and flower annually, 
but I have no iseevaiois upon the subject. 
now proceed to give a brief account of the characters by 
which these two species can be best distinguished. Arundinaria 
thi 
inch diam.; nodes much thickened. Sheaths on young shoots 
thinly membrancous, glabrous, with ae 12 inches long, gradually 
narrowed into a subulate point. Leaves 3-4 inches long, 4 inch 
broad, glabrous above, with scattered pn soft hairs beneath ; 
midrib prominent ; o merous longitudinal nerves 3-5 
glume, two-keeled, with longitudinal nerves outside the keels ; three 
small fimbriate scales : style 2-fid to the base. 
Arundinaria aphathifor a, Trinius.—Stems to 30 feet high ; inter- 
acne 6-15 inches long, 4-? inch diam. ; nodes not much thickened. 
Sheaths on young shoots (spathes) tabetha, coriaceous, narrow 
= sie a —_ linear caducous apex eaths without 
al Leaves 3-5 inches des 4-1 broad, 
eee with gore pairs of prominent longitudinal nerves on 
either side of midrib ; conspicuous transverse veins dividing the 
area of the leaf into squares ; leaf narrowed into a short petiole, 
which is articulate with sheath, Leaf. bearing sheath 2-3 inches 
long, coriaceous, with prominent longitudinal nerves, fimbriate 
with long cilia at apex, persistent after the leaves fall, forming an 
Meret angle with the branch. Flowering stems generally with a 
few leaves; flowers in long panicles, with elongated drooping 
brane of 2-3 spikelets in the axils of large 
lasping ee leafless sheaths, which ar nbriate at 
the apex like the leaf-bearing sheaths. Spikelets lax, 1-2 inches 
long, of 6-8 flowers. Flowering glume hairy outside; palea much 
shorter than flowering glume, with 1-2 longitudinal ne t 
the keels ; 2-3 falcate scales ; style 3-fid to base, long-plumose. 
bamboo described by Major Madden as Arundinaria falcata 
(R nu page | of Journal Asiat. Society of Bengal, June 1849, 
is dou pathiflora, also that mentioned by Dr. Cleghorn as 
pcan naria shouts and utilis from several places in the North- 
west Himalaya, in his Report upon the Forests of Punjeb, 1884. 
Munro in his Monograph on Bamboos (1868), legen ae 
—s under A. falcata. Dr. Stewart, in is at b-plants, 
