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oblong-lanceolate, spathiform, the largest one about 2^cm. long except 

 the acuminate and lanceolate microphyll at the top, glabrous, or pubes- 

 cent towards the margin , membranaceous, many-nerved, those of the 

 secondary rachises smaller ; bracteoles shorter than bracts, narrowly 

 lanceolate, acuminate, membranaceous, bicarinate, pilose with spreading 

 hairs along the carina. Spicule erect, very shorly pedicellate, linear- 

 cylindrical, 25-29 mm. long, 1-flowered with a terminal rudimentary 

 flower, 3-spiculiferous in the lower secondary rachises of the spike ; rachilla 

 clavate, finely pubescent, nearly 3 mm. long. Flower erect, linear- 

 cylindrical, gradually attenuated above sharply, viridescent, 22-86 mm. 

 long. Empty glume 1, situated at a short distance below the flowering 

 glume, encircling the flowering-glume and palea, and shorter than 

 them, oblong-lanceolate, with a linear-lanceolate small rudimentary leaf 

 (or microphyll), chartaceo-membranaceous, ciliated and more or less 

 pubescent towards the margin, many-nerved. Flowering-glume convoluto- 

 cylindrical, lanceolate, acuminate with a hispid-spinescent tip, rigidly 

 chartaceous, viridescent, piloso-pubescent, about 10-ll-nerved, the transverse 

 venules very delicate and loose. Palea slightly shorter than the 

 flowering-glume, convoluto-linear-cylindrical, linear-lanceolate, attenuated 

 above, bifid with scabro-hispid spinescent lobules at the apex, chartace- 

 ous, greenish, thinly pubescent on the dorsal surface, more or less 

 closely and obtusely bi-carinate on the back, forming a very shallow 

 and narrow groove between the carinse, about 11 -nerved, the transverse 

 venules very delicate and loose. Lodiculse 3, lanceolate, acuminate, 

 6J-7 mm. long, thinly membranaceous, minutely ciliato-margined, very 

 thinly pubescent in the outside ; vertically pluri-nervate below. Stamens 3, 

 exserted ; filament long, filiform, glabrous ; anther linear, bifid at the base 

 and usually acutish at the apex, pale yellow. Pistil nearly 2 cm. long ; 

 ovary oblong-cylindrical, glabrous, shorter than the lodiculse ; styles connate, 

 glabrous, the base very thick and suddenly attenuated above ; stigmas 3, 

 delicately filiform, much longer than the style, laxly plumose. Caryopsis 

 unknown . 



Bambusa mitis Hort. ex Carr. in Rev. Hortic. 1866, p. 380. 



Bambusa eclulis Carr. 1. c. 



Phyllostachys edulis A. et C. Riviere Les Bamb. p. 231. 



Barnbos moosoo Sieb. Syn. PI. Oeconom. Jap. p. 5. 



Bambusa mosoo Zoll. Syst. Verg. I. p. 57. 



Nom. Jap. Moso-cliiku. 



