Smaller than the typica. The panicle is more delicate, and some- 

 times only 4-spiculiferous. The flower is very sharply pointed at the apex, 

 and they are usually tinned with purple. 



Arundinaria (Bambusoides) chartacea Makino sp. nov. 



Culm erect, attaining a height of about 2 m., slender, smooth, fistulese, 

 with somewhat prominent nodes, branched above; branches few, one to a 

 node, enclosed with glabrous sheaths which bear small ovato-subulate micro- 

 phylls. Leaves distichous towards the top of a branchlet and about 5-9 

 to it, approximate, often more or less pendulous, narrowly oblong or oblong- 

 laneeolate, 20-35 cm. long. 5-7 cm. bread, acuminate with a fine point, 

 obtuse or acute at the ban- and d» current to a short petiole 4-8 mm. long, 

 finely ciliated-scabrous on the margin, ehartaceous, more or less albo-margin- 

 ate by winter decay, green and glabrous above, pubescent and more or 

 less pallid beneath: midrib slender, prominent beneath, pubescent ; veins 

 8-12 on each side; venules very finely teas- el late ; ligule short, truncate, 

 coriaceous, minuMy ciliated, pubescent externally ; sheath narrowly terete, 

 striate, puberulent, naked on the margin, rigidly paten t-fimbriate at the 



An intermediate sj ecies between Arundinaria nipponka Makino and 

 A. paniculata (Fr. Schmidt) Makino. Though I have not yet had an 

 opportunity to examine the flowers, there is scarcely any doubt that this 

 species is distinct, from all the others of this section. 



(To be continued.) 



ERRATUM. 



