Bambusacese Japonicae. 



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 By 



T. Makino, 



AstUant of Botany in the Science College, 

 Imperial Umtemty, Tohp. 



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Arundinaria japonica Sieb. et Zucc. ex fcteud. Syn. pi. Glum. I. 

 Gram. p. 334 ; Catal. pi. hort. Lot. Bogor. col., 1866, p. 19 ; Miq. Ann. 

 Mas. bot. Lugd.-Batav. II. p. 284, et Prol. fl. Jap. pp. 172, 388 ; Id. 

 Catal. Mus. bot. Lugd.-Batav. Fl. Jap. p. 114; A. Gray PI. Jap. in 

 Perry's Exp. p. 328 ; Franch. et Say. Enum. pi. Jap. II. p. 182 ; Monro 

 Monogr. Bamb. in Transact. Linn. iSoc. XXVI. p. 18 ; A. Riviere et C. 

 Riviere Les Bamb. p. 297, figg. 51-59 ; Bean in Gard. Chron. 3rd Ser. 

 XV. 1894, p. 239, fig. 2G ; Mitf. Bamb. Gard. p. 69 ; Makino in Descrip- 

 tion des Produits forestiers envoyus a ^Exposition uDiverselle de 1900 a 

 Paris par le Ministere de l'Agriculture et du Commerce ; Id. in Bot. Mag., 

 Tokyo, XIV. p. 62. 



Rhizome short or long, horizontally creeping, terete, smooth, thick- 

 walled, protected with coriaceo-membranare. .us sheaths when young, attain- 

 ing about | li cm. or more in diameter; nodes not prominent, rooting; 

 internodes very short or attaining about 10 cm. in length in the elongated 

 one ; roots strong, with dense and spreading rootlets. Culms erect, cssspi- 

 tose, attaining about 6 m. in height and about 2£ cm. in diameter, terete, 

 fistulose, smooth, branched above, nodes not prominent, internodes long; 

 branches one to a node, terete, fistulose ; branchlets often dense, encircled 

 with more or less pilose sheaths which bear linear and narrowly acuminate 

 microphylls ; lateral buds oblong, acutish, compressed, ciliated-margined. 

 Culm-sheath coriaceous, pilose with rigid and adpressed hairs, closely mam- 

 nerved, striate and cream-coloured when dried, ciliated-margined above, 



