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Sasa chartacea nom. noV. 



Arundinaria chartacea Makino Bamb. Jap. in 13<>t. Mng., Tokyo ; XI V, 

 p. 55. 



Nom. Jap. Okumazasa. 

 Distkib. Middle Japan. 



Sasa kurilensis nom. nov. 



Arundinaria kurilensis Rupr. in Bull. Phys.-Math. Petersb. VIII, p. 

 121 ; Ledeb. Fl. Ross. IV. p. 395 ; Steud. Syn. Pi. Glum. I. Gram. p. 33.3 ; 

 Munro Monogr. Bamb. in Trans. Linn. Soc. XXVI, p. 17; Fr. Schmidt 

 Fl. Sachal p. 198 (var. a. genuina) ; Makino Bamb. Jap. in Bot. Mag., 

 Tokyo, XIV, p. 67. 



Bambusa kurilensis Miyabe Fl. Kuril. Isl. in Mem. Bost. Soc. Xat. 

 Hist. IV, p. 271; Hack, in Bull. Herb. Boiss. VII, p. 719. 



Arundo Donax Georgi, non Linn. 



Nom. Jap. Chisliima-zasa. 



Distuib. North Japan. 



Sasa tessellata nom. nov. 



Bambusa tessellata Munro Monogr. Bamb. inlLYans. Linn. Soc. XXVI, 

 p. 110 ; N.E. Brown in Gard. Chron. 3rd Ser. V, 1889, p. 521 ; Nichols. 

 Illustr. Diet. Garden. I, p. 156 ; Beau in Gard. Chron. 3rd Ser. XV, pp. 

 167, 209, 368, % 17; F.-Mitf. Barnb. Gard. p. 82 ; E. Satow Cult. 

 Bamb. Jap. in Trans. Asiat. Soc. Jap. XXVI T, 3, p. 122. 



Arundinaria tessellata Bean 1. c. p. 238, non Munro. 



Bambusa Ragamoivski Wheeler in Gard. Chron. VI, 1876, p. 817, 

 etVII, 1877, p. 50; F.-Mitf. I.e.; Nichols. I.e. 



Arundo Ilagamowski Lambert. MSS. ex Wheeler 1. c. VI, 1876, 

 p. 847. 



Arundinaria Maximoioiczii Hort. ex F.-Mitf. I.e. p. 101. 



DisiTviB. China. 



We see from the above enumeration that the present genus contains 

 no less than eight species with a number of varieties and forms. Most of the 

 species hitherto known are confined to Japan. Sasa kurilensis is found, 

 as the most northern representative even of the whole bamboo-tribe, in 

 Ourup, one of the Kurile islands, in about 46° N.L., 1 ' and towards the 



1) K. Miy a be, Flora of Kurile Islands. . Mem. Bost. Soc Nat. Hist. IV, p. 271. (We 

 have not yet examined the root- structure of this species, but several observations lead us to 

 bring it under the genus Sasa). 



