to it. According to Grisebach’s description of C. abietifolia, 
only one exists between the two lower empty and the 
flowering glume. In our specimen there is none at all! 
‘In other words, Kunth describes (in American species) four 
empty glumes; Grisebach (in this species) three, whereas _ 
in our specimens there are only two. Unfortunately there 
are no native flowering specimens in the Kew Herbaria; 
and as Grisebach’s only specimens were three flowerless 
ones collected by Wilson, and preserved in the then 
Hookerian Herbarium, I am at a loss to know the source 
of his description. ; 
From the native specimens, the cultivated differ only in 
the leaves being much smaller, as may be seen by com- 
paring fig. 12 with those on the specimen represented. 
Duscr. A very slender much-branched climbing bamboo, 
with flexuous wiry terete smooth stems; leafy branches 
four to eight inches long, whorled, spreading and drooping. 
Leaves half to three-quarters of an inch long by one-twelfth 
of an inch wide (one and a half inch long by one-sixth of an 
inch wide in native specimens), strict, rigid, sessile on the 
sheath, linear-lanceolate, acuminate, many-nerved, margin 
cartilaginous minutely serrulate, pale green, glaucous 
beneath ; sheath ciliate; ligule none. Racemes terminating 
the leafy branches, half an inch long, very slender, with 
three to six pendulous pedicelled spikelets, rachis and pedi- 
cels scabrid, capillary. Spikelets a quarter to one-third of an 
inch long, lanceolate, green and purple; two outer glumes 
half the length of the flowering, ovate, acuminate, nerves 
and margins above scabrid, outer five- inner three-nerved. 
Flowering glume oblong-lanceolate, seven-nerved, tip 
awned, upper margin ciliate. Pale as long, but six-nerved, 
and four-toothed at the tip. Scales three, very variable in 
size and form, two lateral ovate or lanceolate, ciliate ; 
dorsal shorter, ciliate or not. Stamens as long as the 
flowering glume; anthers very large, linear-oblong, yellow. 
Ovary glabrous. Styles two short, one free feathery, pro- 
truded at the sides of the spikelet.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Two spikelets; 2 and 3, outer empty glumes; 4, flowering glumes; 5, 
palea ; 6 and 7, lateral scales ; 8 and 9, different forms of dorsal scale; 10, ovary 5 
11, top of vagina of leaf; 12, leaves of native specimen :—all but fig. 12 much 
enlarged. 
