. Indian trees : an account of trees, shrubs, woody climbers, bamboos, and palms indigenous or commonly cultivated in the British Indian Empire. Trees. Arundinaria] CXII. GEAMINEiE 665- B. Mowering culms leafless, transverse veins not conspicuous. 7. A. falcata, Nees; Brandis in Ind. Eor. xii. 206; Gramble t. 11, 12; Collett Simla PI. 634, £.g. 199. Vern. Rlngcil, Hind.; Go Ningal, Jauns. Erect, densely tufted, more or less gregarious, flowers irregularly,^ at times, gregariously over large areas, while a few clumps may be found in flower almost every year, fl. stems leafless. Culms slender, 6
. Indian trees : an account of trees, shrubs, woody climbers, bamboos, and palms indigenous or commonly cultivated in the British Indian Empire. Trees. Arundinaria] CXII. GEAMINEiE 665- B. Mowering culms leafless, transverse veins not conspicuous. 7. A. falcata, Nees; Brandis in Ind. Eor. xii. 206; Gramble t. 11, 12; Collett Simla PI. 634, £.g. 199. Vern. Rlngcil, Hind.; Go Ningal, Jauns. Erect, densely tufted, more or less gregarious, flowers irregularly,^ at times, gregariously over large areas, while a few clumps may be found in flower almost every year, fl. stems leafless. Culms slender, 6-10 ft. high, often glaucous with a waxy covering, rims of sheath-nodes swollen, pubescent or velvety, internodes 6-12 in. long, walls thin. Culm-sheaths thinly membranous,, as long as or longer than internodes, gradually narrowed from the middle to a narrow truncate tip, blade subulate, ^-2 in. long, L. thin, 3-5 by \-\ in.,, n. 36-45 on \ in., transv. veins obscure! Spikelets |~| in. long, some sessile,, others on long slender pedicels, in long densely-whorled racemiform panicles, each with 1-3 fertile and one terminal sterile fl., style short, stigmas 2, long, plumose. Caryopsis \ in. long. North-West Himalaya. Olmmba to Nepal, 4-7,500 ft, often as underwood in forests, of Quercus incana, Y\. May-Oct. 8. A. KHasiana, Munro ; Gamble t. 13. Khasi hills, 5-6,000 ft. (Namlang). Similar to 7, but stems stronger and harder, 1. broader, trans- verse veinlets otten faintly visible, n. 27-42 on i in., inflorescence more dense. 9. A. intermedia, Munro ; Gamble, t. 14. Vern. Titi Nigala^ Nep.; Parmiok, Lepoha. Sikkim lower hills to 7,000 ft. Erect, tufted, gregarious, culms 8-12 ft. high, internodes 5-10 in. long, culm-sbeaths as long as internodes, 1. 3-5 by J-| in., n. 27-36 on J in. (24 in specimens cnlt. at Kew, 1. -xt i^- wide), transverse veins faintly visible, leaf-sheatbs. prominently striate, terminating in falcate auricles with numerous long cilia. PL stems leafless, spikele
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