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longer or shorter than the pedicel, 2-4 J cm. long, compressed, about 5-8- 

 tiowrr.'.l. brownish-viridesoent when dry ; rachilla filiform, more or less fiVxu- 

 ous, compressed, pubescent, internode- :)\-~ nun. long. Flowers rather laxly 

 disposed, erect, lanceolate or angustato-laneeolato. sharply pointed, 8-12 mm. 

 long. Empty glumes 2, minute, remote or approximate, often putaseent ; 

 1 very minute, setaceous or subulate ; II setaceous-subulate or subulate-ovatr 

 to oblong and membranaceous, mucronate, ciliated-margined, 3-6 mm. b »no-. 

 Flowering glume narrowly ovate or ovato-lanceolate, gradually attenuated 

 above, sharply pointed. chartaco-uienibranaeeous. ciliated-margined alvive. 

 piloso-seiilu-oiis inwards the apex, puberulent on the dorsal surface. 9-10- 

 nerved, with loose and delicate transverse venules between nerves. Palea 

 very slightly shorter than or equal to the flowering glume, oblong or narrowly 

 oblong, bifid at the apex, bicarinate, scabrous or piloso-seabrous along the 

 carina), membranaceous, minutely puberulent, ciliated, pilose at the apex arid 

 the upper margin, with 8-9-nerves, transverse venules delicate and very loose. 

 Lodicute 3, oblong or ovato-oblong, obtuse or acute at the apex, pilose on the 



narrowly linear, bitid at b-th ends, .VC mm. long, yellow. Ovary minute, 

 ovate ; styles 3, connate below ; stigmas longer than the style, plumose. 



Bambmu nipponica Makino in Bot. Mag., Tokyo, IX. 1895, p. 72: in 

 " 1000 nen France Paris Bankoku Hakuran-Krai Shuppinbutsu Kaisetsu-Sho." 



Norn. Jap. Miyako-zam (T. Makino). 



lfab. Frov. Yamashiro : Mt. Hiei-zan (T. Mnkino ! Nov. 6, 1894); 

 Prov. Qui: Hikone (T. Makino ! Nov. 1894) ; Prov. Hitachi : Mt. Tsukuba- 

 yama {T. Makino \ May 1897) ; Prov. Awa ( =Boshu) : Mt. Kiyosumi-yama 

 (T. Makino ! April 1898); Prov. Iyo: Mt. Ishidzuchi-yama {Z. Umemural 

 Aug. 18, 1897); Prov. Higo in IsL Kyushu: Tenshu in Shiraito-muw 

 (H. Nakagaun ! Sept. 1896). 



This bamboo is found on mountains throughout Japan. Armdinaria 

 dimorpha Hack, in litt. 1899 (ex Z. Matsumura) may be the same with 

 my species ; the specimens in the Herbarium of the Science College, Imp. 

 Univ. Tokyo were collected by Prof. Z. Mateumura in Mt. Koya-san in 

 the prov. of Kii on July 18, 1883. 



{To be continued.) 



ERRATUM. 



