Bambusaceae Japonicae. 



{Continued from p. 55.) 



T. Makino, 



Aslant of Bntam, ia the Science College, 

 Imperial University, Tokyo. 



Arundinaria (Bambusoides) kurilensis Rnpr. in Bull. Phys.-Math. 

 Petersb. VIII. p. 121 ; Ledeb. PI. Ross. IV. p. 395 ; Steud. Syn. pi Glum. 

 T. Gram. p. 335 ; Munro Monogr. Bamb. in Transact. Linn. Soc. XXVI. 

 p. 17 ; Fr. Schmidt Fl. Sachal. p. 198 (var. a genuina). 



Culm shruby, attaining 24 decim. in height and 6 mm. in diameter., 

 terete, smooth, fistnlose, branched above; nodes smooth, somewhat promi- 

 nent; internode slender; branches one to a node, erect, fastigiate, not 

 dense, at first encircled with often pubescent sheaths, internodes usually 

 semiterete at the base. Lateral bud oblong or narrowly oblong, compress- 



ligule short, 1-3 mm. long, coriaceous, rounded-truncate and minutely ciliated 

 at the margin, pub-cent externally ; sheath narrowly terete, glabrous. <>r 

 more or less pubescent, coriaceous, finely striate, naked-margined, efimbriate 

 t tl m itl Peduncle erect, lateral on branches, short, not exceeding 

 the leaves, about 5-10 cm. long, stout-filiform, but thicker and with aeveral 

 short internodes at the basal portion, glabrous but pubescent under the 

 raceme, sheathing throughout so that peduncle invisible : sheaths charta- 



below, glabrous or more or less pubescent, striate, naked-margined, many- 

 nerved, often purpurescent, pubescent and bearing a subulate or ovate- 

 lanceolate micropbyll at the apex. Inflorescence simply racemose, or 

 sometimes the lowest branches bispiculiferous, 4-5 Jem. long, ovate, dense 



