HITCHCOCK AND CHASE—GRASSES OF THE WEST INDIES, 4(0] 
110. BAMBOS Retz. 
Spikelets several to many-flowered, the glumes and sterile lemmas per- 
sistent after the fall of the florets; glumes small; lemmas firm, sharp-pointed 
or awn-tipped, sessile, solitary or in clusters on an elongate axis or the branches 
of a panicle; stamens 6. 
Spikelets 3 to 6 em. long__----- 1. B. latifolia. 
Spikelets 1 to 2 cm. long._------_- _.-2. B. vulgaris. 
1. Bambos latifolia Humb. & Bonpl. Pl. Aequin. 1: 68. pl. 27. 1808. 
Guadua latifolia Kunth, Syn. Pl. Aequin. 1: 254. 1822. 
Arborescent, as much as 8 meters tall, the summit nodding; spikelets eylin- 
dric, more or less falcate. 
Damp forests, Trinidad and northern South America. Originally described 
from Venezuela. 
2. Bambos vulgaris Schrad.; Wendl. Coll. Pl. 2: 26. pl. 47. 1810. 
COMMON BAMBOO. 
Bambusa sieberi Griseb. Fl. Brit. W. Ind. 528. 1864. 
Arborescent, as much as 10 meters tall, freely branching; flowering branches 
tascicled, elongate, leafless, the sessile spikelets radiate in clusters, 
Cultivated in the Tropics of both hemispheres, the native country doubtful 
but not American. Bambusa sieberi was described from Martinique. Common 
in the West Indies as an escape from cultivation. Called in Cuba “ cafia 
brava.” 
BaMBos NANA Roxb. (FI. Ind. 2: 199, 1832), 2 to 3 meters tall, has spread 
from cultivation at Cinchona, Jamaica. 
DOUBTFUL SPECIES. 
In the following list are given the names of species described from 
the West Indies, for which we have not been able to account: 
Aira gigantea Steud. Syn. Pl. Glum. 1: 224, 1854, Described from a specimen 
in the herbarium of Mougeot, said to be very likely from the Antilles. 
Anatherum berterianum Spreng.; Schult. Mant. 2: 448. 1824. “In Portorico 
et Guadeloupe.” Has been referred to Imperata, but the description does not 
well apply. 
Anatherum pedunculosum Desy. Opuse. 70. 1831. “Antillis.’ Possibly An- 
dropogon condensatus. 
Avena lutea L. f. Suppl. Pl. 112, 1781. Trisetum luteum Pers. Syn. Pl. 1: 97. 
1805. “ Martinique.” The description does not apply to any species known 
from the West Indies. 
Cenchrus hirsutus Spreng. Neu. Entd. 8: 15. 1822. “ Hispaniola.” The de- 
scription does not agree with any species known to us from the West Indies. 
Cenchrus parviflorus Poir. in Lam. Eneycl. 6: 52. 1804. Described from Porto 
Rico. Probably Chaetochloa geniculata, but the description does not well apply. 
Chaetochloa corrugata parviflora Scribn. & Merr. U. S. Dept. Agr. Div. Agrost. 
Bull. 21: 24. 1900. Based on Cenchrus parviflorus Poir. The species to which 
this name is applied is Chaetochloa geniculata. 
Chondrachyrum scabrum Nees; Steud. Syn. Pl. Glum. 1: 288. 1854. Described 
from “Ind. Occ.” but the locality possibly erroneous. The description suggests 
Melica, which is not known from the West Indies. 
Digitaria (?) domingensis Roem. & Schult. Syst. Veg. 2: 475. 1817, based on 
Panicum domingense Zuccagni. 
