flowering glume, oblong-lanceolate, bicarinate, 4-fid with the outer 2 scabrous 

 acumens and the inner 2 pilose lobules at the apex, piloso-ciliated on the 

 upper margin, membranaceous, about 8-10-nerved, with loose transverse 

 venules, very minutely puberulent on the back, the carin;e acute and piloso- 

 ciliated above. Lodiculre 3, ovato-oblong, obtuse at the apex, |iiloso-ciliated 

 on the upper half margin, whitish, thin but more or less thicker towards tin- 

 base, 3-3J mm. long. Stamens 6 (sometimes fewer in abortion) ; filament 

 filiform ; anther linear, bifid at both ends, yellow, 6J-8Jmm. long. Ovary 

 minute, ovatn-olili.ng, attenuated towards the style; styles short, connate; 

 stigmas 3, long, plumose and often dilated, about 6-7 mm. long including 

 the style. 



Bambusa ramosa Makino in " 1900 nen France Paris Bankoku 

 Hakuran-Kwai Shuppinbutsu Kaisetsu-Sho." 



Nom. Jap. Adzmaa-zam (T. Makino nom. nov.). 



Hal. Prov. Iwabhiro : Benten in Watari-mura near Fukushima (A'. 

 Nemoto ! April 28, 1895) ; Prov. Hitachi : Mt. Tsukuba-yama (5T. Makino 1 

 May 1895); Prov. Musashi : Koganei (T. Makino \ May 1894). 



This small bamboo is rather rarely found, mainly on mountains of the 

 middle and north Japan, and its spieuhe and flowers have the appearance 

 of those of Arundinaria Simoni Riviere. 



Arundinaria (Bambusoides) nipponica Makino nom. nov. 



internodes. Culm erect/ attaining' about l.\m. in height ami about 4 mm. 

 in liamet r lsually rooting at the base, slender, smooth, fistulose, more 

 often putrescent, encircled with glabrous or sometimes pubescent sheaths 

 which are swollen at the base, often fastigiately branched at the base ; 



glabrous above, pubescent and glaueom U-neath. more or less become albo- 

 marginate by the decaying in late autumn : midrib slender, prominent 

 beneath ; veins 5-10 on each side ; venules very finely tessellate ; ligule short, 

 rounded-trimoate, coriaceous, pubescent externally; sheath narrow, glabrous, 

 often purpurescent, finely striate, with naked margin, fimbriate at the mouth. 

 Peduncle slender, with sheaths which bear microphylls, or leafy. Panicle 

 narrow, about 7-14 cm. long, branches loose and erect ; rachis pubescent as 



