ANNALS OF THE EOYAL BOTANIC GAEDEN, CALCUTTA.
neiTod, anglod, ciliato on the mm-gins and apionlatc; Jhugring glnma similar, but lai-ger,
with 2 prominont n o ™ and inloimediato finer ones; jnUa 2-kooled, ciliate on "the
ioels, acute or bifid at the tip, abont as long as flowering glnme. UikuUi 8, obtnse,
fimbnate, 1 smallor, 3-nerred, ne.-yes wavy. SUmem with short filaments and obtuse
mthtn. Ovary glabrous, styU swollen at the base and soon divided into two feathery
stigmas, Oarjjopsis not known. Beddome Flora Syh. ccxxs.
Ceylon, higher hills of the north-east system of mountains in the Central Provinoe,
where it was collected by Mrs. Walker and by Messrs. Watson, Thwaites, and Trimen.
Also in the Pulney Hills in South India {Beddome, 1873).
This handsome species is recognised by its purplo panicles and large thick leaTes
with cartilagmous edges. Beddome's Pulney Hill specimens (leaves only) have tho
leaves longer and narrbwer than those from Ceylon, but I consider them to belon» to
this species. Thwaites' No. 3860 referred to this by Munro is, I consider, tme
A. WlgUiana. This species probably flowers frequently, but is known to have done so
only in 1861 and 1888.
P l a t e No. \.—Arundmaria WaUieriana, Munro. 1, leaf-branch; 2, part of flower
p a n i c l e - « / nubral 3, spikelet; 4 & 6, empty glumes; 6, flowering glume; 7,
palea; 8, lodienle; 0, sta.nen; 10, ovary and stigmas; 11, venation of l e a f - m W i.
(All from Mrs. Walker's specimens).
2 . A e o t d i s a s i a W i g h t i a k a , ITIIS in Zinmxa ix. 4 8 3 ( 1 8 3 4 ).
An erect, gregarious shrab with slender culms arising from short branchinorhizomes.
Calms 6 to 10 feet high, occasionally higher, dark green, turning yellowish"
brown with age; nodes swollen and with a hairy ring below them formed by the
bases of fallen sheaths; ioternodes 10 to 14 in. long, nsually flattened on one side,
prominently striate when young, usually rough; branchlets many, verticillate from the
nodes, either of leaves only or of leaves and flowers mixed. Oalm-sluaths popery strawcolom
ed, prominently striate, 4 to 8 in. long by I to 3 in. broad, slightly narrowed
upwards, covered thickly at the base and less so above with stiff golden hairs arising
from tubercular bases'; imperfect lilade wavy, narrow, subulate, 1 to l-o in. long by -1
to -2 in. broad, scabrid; ligule short, truncate, fimbriate on the edge. £eam of leafbearing
branches 5 to 7 in. long by -70 to 1 in. broad, rounded or slightly narrowed
at the base into a very short, somewhat swollen petiole, tip long acnminato, margins
incurved; the edges scabrid; glabrous above, glaucescent beneath and usually glandularpubescont
on the midrib; main veins hardly prominent above, shining below, secondaiy
veins 5 - 7 pairs, intermediate usually 5, transverse veinlets numerous, regular, prominent,
raised beneath: those of flowering branches smaller, more rounded at the base •
leaf-sheaths striate, keeled, often pm-ple, sometimes covcred with numerous strong bulbousbased
strigose hairs, cihate at the edges and furnished at tho mouth with 5 to 8 lonostifl
bristles; liguU short, blunt, often dentate. Infioresecme in dense, leafy, tcrmina?
spreading panicles, with capillary, fiexuose branchlets, axils glandular. SpiMets on lon»^
slender pedicels, 3- to 5-flowerod, pui-ple, the uppermost flower usually sterile, glabrous or
slightly scabrid-hirsute flattened, finely ciliate, thickened at top; eraf,t,, gkmes
two, ovate acute, tho lower 5- the upper 7-nervod ; ^»»«ri»;? glume ovate, 9- to ll-nerved
with transverse neiwes, mucronate, often scabrous-hispid outside; palea 2-cuspidate, g-keeled
cihate on the keels, 2-nerTed on the sides and l-nerved, with transverse • nerves, between
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the keels. Lodieules 3; nsually two obtuse larger, one acute smaller, ciliate, 3- to 7-nerved.
Stamens with short filaments, anthers brown, acutc. Ovary glabrous, style entire at
the base, soon dividing into two plumose stifjmas. Oarynpsis clliiitic, acute, 'l to '3
in. long, deeply furrowed on one side, lluprecht Bamh. 26, tab. I l l , fig. 10; Munra
in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxvi. 19. Beddome Flora Sylo. ccxxx, Ami. Gen. t. 28; Brandts
For. Flora 563; SMadel Syn. 335 ; Thwaites Enmi. Plant. Zeyl. 444.
Vak. mspiDA, leaf-sheaths and stems thickly covered with golden hairs,
from a bulbous base; - iutemodes more prominently flattened on one
side. A. 'hispida, Steudel Syn. 335; il. moliniformis^ lioehst. in Herb
HohenackCr No. 1282.
Hills of South India and Ceylon, most common on the Kilgiris, where it covers the
upper slopes of the hills above 6,000 feet chiefly as an underwood m 'sholas'of
Eugenia,. Miehelia, Ilex .and other trees. It is especially common on the sides of
Doddabetta (8,600 feet) and in the Kundahs Range, where also var. j3 is found, chiefly
on the crest of the ghats from Sispara to Makurti. It has been collected by Wight,
Hohenacker, and many others in Nilgiris; by Beddome in Palgbat and Tmnevelly;
and by Thwaites on Pedrotallagalla in Ceylon at 8,000 feet (C. P. 3860).
This very pretty species flowers annually, and being praclically the only Nilgiri
reed-likc bamboo, is at once recognized ih those Mis. It is commonly used for
mat-making and baskets, also for fences.
P l a t e No. 2..^Arundimria Wightiana, Nees. 1, leaf-branch; 2, part of flower
panicle; 3, node of culm—0/ natural sizei 4, culm-sheath—rea'tfeerf 1; 5, spikelet; 6 & 7
empty glumes; 8, flowering glume; 9, palea; 10, flower with glume and palea'removed
to show lodiculcs, ovary and stamens; 11, lodicules; 12, stamen; 13, caryopsis; 14,
venation of \<is.i—enlarged (from fresh specimens gathered by myself). ' '
3. Aeusdinaeia ploeibunda, Thwaites Enum.. Plant. Zeyl. 375.
A small erect shi-ubby bamboo. Culms 2 to 5 ft. high ; intornodes 2 to 4 in
long, very hairy at top with retrorse hairs. Leaves lanceolate, acuminate, glabrons
spinulosc-sen-ato on the edges, more or less attenuate into a voiy short petiole at
the base, the petiole with- two glands ; main vein narrow, secondary veins 3 to 4
pans with about 5-6 intermediate and many regular and conspicuous transverse
veinlets; stnate, sometimes hispid with long hairs from tubercular bases
ending m a minutely ciliate membrane below the petiole and in short aurielcs
uimished with 5 to 8 long twisted bristles; ligale short, often fimbriate,
a l a i g e terminal paniele, the branches at first appressed, afterwards spreading, filiform,
axds glandular. usually 1 in. long, minutely silldly pubescent, 5 - t o 8-flowered
the uppermost empty ; raehis angular, dilated above, curved between the flowers and
eonspieuous; mpty glames 3, outer -1 to -2 in. long, acute, 3-nervcd, ciliate at apex, inner
simiar bu longer and more nerved; fleering glume 3 in. long, acuminate, 7-^9- erved
« 3, two broad, ovate, fimbriate ; the third small, naixow, fimbriate. Stajns with
short filaments, anlMrs blunt. Ovary glabrous; style short, at once separating into 2 fla