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rounded-obtuse or truncato-rounded and shortly decurrent to 

 the short petiole at the base, armed with erect-patent trans- 

 lucent sharp-pointed unequal-sized minute spinules on both 

 margins, and sometimes fimbriato-ciliated on the basal margin, 

 membranaceo-chartaceous, glabrous on both surfaces, nearl}' 

 concolourous but hardlj^ paler on half side beneath, about 8-28 

 cm. long, 8-36 mm. broad, the lower leaves often gradually 

 diminished in size and then reduced into the microphylls ; midrib 

 slender, paler, prominent beneath; veins 4-8 on each side, deli- 

 cate, prominent beneath; veinlets delicately or conspicuously 

 tessellate with rectangular areolee on both surfaces; petiole 

 about 3-10 mm. long, compressed, glabrous dorsally, densely 

 puberulent towards the centre and broadly grooved in front, 

 glabrous and smooth or sometimes fimbriato-ciliated above on 

 margin ; sheath long and slender, encircling the branchlets, 

 longer than the internodes in the superior ones but the shorter 

 the lower, long-fimbriate with pale flexuous deciduous erect or 

 subspreading setfe at the mouth, tomentoso-pilosc with pale- 

 amber-coloured spreading hairs at the base, finely striate and 

 more or less tessellate above, patently ciliated with pale hairs 

 on margin, coriaceo-chartaceous, glabrous; ligule very short and 

 transverse, truncate, coriaceous, glabrous internally, puberulent 

 dorsally, about 1 mm. long. Spikelets linear or angustately 

 lanceolate, acuminate, few-several-flowered; rachilla flexuous, 

 densely and adpressedly hirtellous with pale hairs. Glumes 2, 

 acuminate, ciliated; the lower one subulato-lanceolate ; the inner 

 one ovato-lanceolate. Flower lanceolate, sharply acuminate, 

 about 17 mm. long. Flowering glume longitudinally nervate, 

 viridescent, scarious towards the margin, ciliated, thinly puber- 

 ulent. 



Norn. Jap. Goki-dake. 



Hah. JAPAN, western (T. Making!). 



A species allied to Arundinaria variegata (Sieb ) Making 

 var. yiridis Making. 



Rhododendron Tashiroi Maxim, in Mel. BioL XII. p. 

 489 (1886). 



