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flowered, the longest one about 3| 

 the internodes compressed, 4-5 mm. long. Flower erect, lanceolate, acute, 

 pale-viridesecut, somewhat estate when dry, 6-7 mm. long. Empty glumes 

 2, appioximate ; I very minute, deltoid-subulate, pubescent ; II much larger 

 than the I, 2-3 mm. long, oval or elliptical, imicr.mab>-rotu<e or mucro- 

 nato-emarginate, membranaceous, pubescent, cilia ted-mat-iiicd. few -nerved 

 Flowering glume ovate, mucronate, ciiiated-margined, pubescent toward the 

 margin and the apex, chartaceo-membranceous, 10-I4-nerved, with loose 

 and delicate transverse venules between veins. Palea equal to the flower- 

 ing glume in length, elliptical, coiivoluto-lanceolate, truncate or subbirid at 

 the apex, membranceous hiearinate. piloso.pubescent and ciliated towards 

 the apex, puberulent on the dorsal suri'acv. ciliato-scabroiw along the carina? 

 above, about 8-nerved, with loose and delicate transverse venules between 

 veins. Lodiculte 3, elliptical, piloso-ciliated towards the obtuse apex. 

 Stamens 6 ; filament filiform ; anther linear, bifid at both ends, 5 mm. 

 long, yellow. Ovary obovato-oblong ; styles 3, short, connate at the base ; 



Phyllosiachys bambusoides g. albo-marginata Miq. ProJ. ft. Jap. p. 

 172 ; Id. Catal. Mas. bot. Ltlgd.-Bntev., Fl. Jap. p. 114. 



Jap. II. p. 606; Hack, in' Bull, herb/lioiss. VII. 1899, p. 720. 



limnbuxa albn-hiurgiuala Makino in Description des Produits forestiers 

 envoyes a l'Exposition universale de 1900 a Paris par le Minister* de 

 1' Agriculture et du Commerce. 



Bambum Veitchii Carriere in Revue Hortic. 1889, p. 90; Wats, in 

 Gard Chron. 3rd. Ser. III. 1888, p. 332 ; Kew Bulletin, 1889, p. 79, exd. 



Arundinaria Veitchii N. B. Brown in Gard. Chron. 3rd. Ser. V. 1889, 



Omi : Mt. Shi 

 tome (T. Mai 

 1894). 



