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efimbriato at the mouth, remaining till next year enclosing the culm ; mirro- 

 phyll linear, very narrowly acuminate to a fine point, somewhat very 

 finely scabrous on the margin, finely scabrous on the upper surface, closely 

 many-nerved, with loose transverse veinlets between veins, with a incon- 

 spicuous midrib; ligule membranaceous, truncate, minutely ciliated, pu- 

 berulent externally. Leaves 3-10 to a branchlet, lanceolate or narrowly 

 lanceolate, gradually acuminate at the apex with a very sharp point, obtuse 

 or shortly attenuated at the base and decurrent to a short petiole 3-10 mm. 

 long, ciliated-scabrous on the margin, 15-36 cm. long. 1^-5 J cm. broad, 

 chartaceo-coriaceous, green above, glaucous beneath ; midrib slender, promi- 

 nent beneath ; veins 4-11 on each side ; venules very finely tessellate ; 

 ligule coriaceo-membranaceous, truncate or rounded-truncate, minutely ciliat- 

 ed, pubescent externally, 2^-4 mm. long; sheath coriaceous, usually glabrate, 

 finely striate, naked-margined, the mouth efimbriate or rarely incompletely 

 fimbriate. Peduncle encircled with sheathe, pubescent under the panicle. 

 Panicle narrow; rachis piloso-pubescent ; pedicels 1-2 to a node, iilil'ornn 

 pubescent, shorter than the spicula?. Spicula linear, about 10-ilowered, 

 stramineous-coloured when dried ; rachilla pubescent, internodes short. Flow- 

 ers erect, close, narrowly lanceolate, sharply pointed, 13-14 mm. long. 

 Fmpty idi lines 2, approximate, membranaceous, more or less pub-rulent 

 above, ciliated on the margin ; I subulate-lanceolate, or narrowly lanceolate, 

 mucronate, 5-1 1| mm. long, 3-5-nerved ; II 7-12 mm. long, ovate-lanceo- 

 late, or lanceolate, about 10-13-nerved. Flowering glume ovate, acuminate 

 towards the scabrous setaceo-mucronate apex, ciliated on the upper margin, 

 chartaceo-membranoceous, glabrous, but the midrib more or less scabrous 

 towards the apex, 16-17-nerved. Palea shorter than the flowering glume, 

 about 8 mm. long, ovate, bi-carinate, obtuse or subbifid at the apex, pubes- 

 cent, membranaceous, more or less ciliated on the margin, pilose at the 

 apex, ciliato-pih.se along the carina?, 9-11-nerved. Lodicula? oblong, a 1 .out 

 2 mm. long, thinly membranaceous, ciliated towards the apex. Stamens 3, 

 rarely 4 ; anther linear, bifid at the base. Ovary ovate, shortely attenu- 

 ated above, glabrous. 



Bambos jatake Sieb. Syn. pi. oeconom. Jap. p. 5. 



Bambusa Metake Sieb. in hort. Cat. ex Miq. Ann. Mus. hot Lugd.- 

 Batav. II. p. 284, non Sieb. Syn. pi. oeconom. Jap. p. 4. 



Arundinaria Metake Nichols. 111. Diet Gard. I. p. 118. 



Bambusa japonica Nichols. 1. c. p. 155. 



Bambusa mitts Hort. Paris, ex Munro Monogr. Bamb. in Transact. 

 Linn. Soc. XXVI. p. 18, non Poir. 



