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distinct petiole 3-10 mm. in length, ciliated-scabrous on the margin, coriaceo- 

 ehartaeeoiH, given and glabrous ab ve, |>aler and more or less puk-scent 

 beneath ; midrib slender, prominent beneath ; veins 8-13 on each side ; 

 venules very finely tes.-ellate ; sheath narrow, terete, coriaceous, striate, pu- 

 bescent but then often glabrate, ciliated-margined, rigidly fimbriate at the 

 mouth : ligule short, rounded truncate, minutely ciliated, pubescent exter- 

 nally. Peduncle slender, encircled with usually pubescent sheaths, piloso- 

 pubescent at the nodes, pubescent under the panicle. Panicle narrow or 

 oval, coarctate or more patulose, about 15-20 cm. long ; main rachis pu- 

 bescent, often with small bracts at the lower nodes ; 2nd rachises erect or 

 erect- patent, stout-filiform, pubescent ; pedicels filiform, erect or erect-patent, 

 pubescent, 2-4 to a 2nd rachis, shorter than the spicule. Spieula erect, 

 linear, straight, compressed, pale-viridescent, 5-13-rlowered, 25-5 J cm. long; 

 raehiila dexuous. pubescent, the internode about 3-6 mm. long. Flowers 

 rather laxly disposed, erect, lanceolate, narrowly attenuated towards the 

 very sharp point, 7-14 mm. long. Empty glumes 2, approximate or a 

 little apart, pubescent ; I minute, oblong-subulate ; II often much larger, 

 3-10 mm. long, subulate or narrowly ovate or oblong, mucronate at the 

 apex, ciliated-margined, membranaceous, 1 -many-nerved. Flowering glume 

 ovato-lanceolate, sharply pointed, chartaceous, ciliated on and pubescent 

 towards the margin. 15-17-nerved, with very loose and delicate ero>s venules 

 between veins. Palea shorter than the flowering glume, elliptical, convolute- 

 lanceolate, acutely bicarinate, bifid at the apex, chartaceo-membranaceous, 

 puberulent, 11-13-nerved, ciliated on the margin and carina} above. Lodi- 

 cuke 3, ovato-oblong or oblong, about 2 mm. long, obtuse or subobtuse at 



form ; anther linear, about 6 mm. long, yellow, minutely bifid at the upper 

 end and sagittate-bifid at the lower end. Ovary cylindrical-ovate, glabrous ; 

 styles 3, short, connate l)elow ; stigma longer than the style, plumose. 



Bambusa stenantha Makino in Description des Prodmta forestiers en- 

 voyes a Imposition universale de 1900 a Paris par 1c Ministere de Agri- 

 culture et du Commerce ; Id. in Bot. Mag., Tokyo, XIV. p. 62. 



Norn. Jap. Me-lcumai-zam (T. Makino nom nov.). 



Hob. Prov. Iwashibo: Kitagata in Yama-gori (K. Nemoto I Aug. 24, 

 1895). 



Closely resembles the typica, but the sheath and the under surface 



attenuated towards the sharp apex. 

 Var. nana (Hack.) Makino. 



