99 



■I mi- iv ciliated towards the margin. Culm-sheath coriaceous, angustat.- 

 oblong to lanceolate, glabrous, naked-margined, green shaded with darkish- 

 purpureal colour, but pale stramineous when dried, many-nerved, with deli- 

 cate and inconspicuous transverse venules between veins, striate when dried, 

 the basal prominent ring glabrous, efimbriate at the mouth ; lignle very 

 short, chartaceous, straight-truncate, minutely ciliated on the margin. piuVs. 

 cent externally; microphyll subulate-linear to subulate-lanceolate, acuminat--. 

 usually obtuse at the base, chartaceous. nn-en, glabrous but more or less 

 puberulent at the base of the upper surface, scabrous on the margin, close];, 

 many-nerved with an inconspicuous midrib. Leaves 3-7 to a branchle*, 

 approximate, narrowly lanceolate or linear lanceolate, rather more or less 

 abruptly acuminate at the apex with a very sharp tip, obtuse or rounded- 

 obtuse at the base, with a short petiole 1-5 mm. in length, cilia ted-seahrou- 

 on the margin, chartaceous, green above, but beneath one side-half slights- 

 pallid than the other, glabrous on both surfaces but sometimes very slightly 

 pubescent on both sides of the midrib beneath, .")-22 cm. long, 5-17 mm. 

 wide ; midrib slender, prominent beneath ; veins 2-5 on each side ; venules 

 finely tesse.llate ; lignle short, truncate, sulioa-iaceous, minutely ciliated on 

 the margin, pubescent externally; sheath angustate-terete, usually glabrous, 

 finely striate, ciliato-margined, mouth-cilia long erect and deciduous. In- 



oftener of one spicula, sometimes the pedicel much slender and distantly 

 sheathing. Spicule and flowers as the type 



Bambusa Chino Franch. et Sav. Enum. pi. Jap. II. pp. 1S3, 607. 



Bambusa Laydekeri Hort. ex Bean in Gard. Chron. 3rd Ser. XV. p. 

 36'S ; Mitf. Bamb. Gard. p. 92, cum tab.; Satow Cult, Bamb. Jap. in 

 Trans. Asiat. Soc. Jap. XXVII. 3, p. 47. 



Arundinaria vwjinata Hack, in Bull! Herb. Boiss. VII. p. 717, ex part-. 

 ? Bambos sinotaJcc Sieb. Syn. pi. teeonom. Jap. p. 5. 

 Norn. Jap. Hakcme-dake. 



Hab. Prov. Musashi : Ozi (Herb.! Sc. Coll. Imp. Univ. Tokyo, Xov. 

 13, 1879), Tokyo (T. Mahino 1 May 12, 1894, Feb. 1895, May 1896, April 

 and May 1900; Id.! herb. 1. c. April 1893), Bot. Gard. in Tokyo (Herb.: 



(T. Mahino \ April 13, 1891), H.inauawa (T. May 7, 1891 «. 



April 2, 1895), Kami-kagemori (T. Maldno\ April 3, 1895), Shibuya (T. 

 MaMm\ Jan. 12, May 23, May 1900), Ibid. Bot. Gard. Agric, Coll. Imp. 



