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nunc elongati ineurvi v. flexuosi spiculis nunc dissitis angustis sterilibus glabris, nunc ut 
videtur morbosis sterilibusque valde i tis villosis i lariter globosis v. e glumis 
is imbricatis elongatis v. falcatis. : 
Species 1, Himalayensis, altera a Kurzio addita genus nostrum Melocalamum format. 
299. Greslania, Balansa in Bull. Soc. Bot. Fr. xix. 319.—Spicule 1-flore, in ramulis 
panicule spicatz v. subeymoso-confertze, rhachilla sub flore brevi, ultra florem in stipitem 
sepe glumiferum producta, flore hermaphrodito. Glum:e rigide membranace:e v. coriaces, 
latz, muticze, multinerves, 2 inferiores vacuse, infima parva ; florens vacuis longior, summa 
vacua angusta tenuisque v. ad tum reducta ; palea glum:e :equilonga, multinervis, 
apice obscure 2-carinata. Lodicule 3. Stamina 6. Styli 3, distincti, stigmatibus plu- 
mosis. Caryopsis fide Balans: tereti-oblonga, pericarpio crasso celluloso, semine libero.— 
Gramina elata, foliis Bambusc v. rigidis brevibusque. Panicula terminalis, ampla, ramulis 
sepe foliatis. Spicule nunc angus&e secus ramulos ultimos pauce subspicate, nunc 
parvze rigidze ad apices ramulorum numerosz, fere in cymulas densas conferte. Bractec 
sub ramulis spiculisque parvse. 
Species 3, Novo-Caledoni Genus Pseud: iyo et Tei; valde affine, quz omnia forte 
in unum jungenda. 
293. Bunch Munro in Trans. bun Soc. xxvi. 142, t. 3.—Spiculee 1-florze, 
secus ramulos p bracteate, rhachilla sub flore brevi sub- 
articulata ultra florem in "Müpibout glumiferum producta, flore hermaphrodito. Glum:e 
sspe i», multinerves, inferiores 1-2 vacuse, florens subsimilis nisi 
longior, lata, arcte convoluta, terminalis vacua, angusta; palea glumse sequilonga, lata, 
multinervis, arcte convoluta, carinis 2 apicem versus valde prominentibus ciliatis. Lodi- 
cule 2-3, majuscule. Stamina 6. Ovarium glabrum ; ; stylus elongatus, rigidus, apice 
breviter 2-3-fidus, stigmatibus ... Caryopsis (i t ) ovoidea, irata, 
haud magna, pericarpio crassiusculo a semine soluto.—Grami 1 tia v. 
foliis Bamb Panieule rami spiciformes, nune breves paucispiculati 
(errore pro E dis co-floris descripti), nunc longiores multispiculati plus minus compositi 
sed ob ramulos virgatos angusti. Bractem spathacez fere glumiformes sub spicarum 
ramulis et spiculis ipsis interdum glum:e gemmipar: dicuntur. 
Species 3, Indi orientalis incole, —.Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 323. 
Genus a Kurzio, For. Fl. Brit. Burm. ii. 566, cum Cephalostach;yo jungitur, a quo differt tamen 
inflorescentia notisque nonnullis spieularum structure, 
294. Cephalostachyum, Munro in Trans. Lin. Soc. xxvi. 138.— Spiculie 1-florz, in 
capitulo globoso. terminali numerose v. in glomerulis ;capituliformibus secus rachin 
dissitis bracteis glumif. ixte, rhachilla brevissima, 
basi articulata, ultra florem in stipitem nudum interdum longum producta, flore herma- 
phrodito. Glum:se prwter bracteas glumif 2-3, latzw, 
multinerves, muticz, 1-2 inferiores vacuie, superior florens longior; palea glum:e sequi- 
longa, lata, convoluta, multinervis, apice prominule 2-carinata, 2-dentata v. 2-mucronata. 
Lodicule 2-3, magn: Stamina 6. Stylus elongatus, apice breviter 2-3-fidus, stigma- 
tibus plumosis. Caryopsis (adhuc immatura haud magna) glabra, oblonga, rostrata, 
pericarpio crassiusculo a semine libero.—Gramina frutieosa v. arborescentia, foliis 
Bambusce. Capitula ad apices ramulorum fasciculatorum sepius solitaria, dense globosa, 
in speciebus paucis secus rhachin seu panicule ramum elongatum inter se distantia et 
minus densa. Spicule in capitulis ad 3-D fasciculatze; bracteze sub fasciculis fere 
spathace:e, sub spiculis minores, interdum pios vacus v. s rudimenta foventes 
(glum g p dicte), i lum omnes s - inatz capitulo subechinat 
Species 5 v. 6, Indi: orientalis et Madagascaris incole. Kurz, For. Fl. Brit. Burm. ii, 663, excl, 
sp.n. 6 et 6. Griff. Ic. PI. Ind. Or. t. 181 (Schizostachyum). 
Bamnbusa virgata, Trin. Spec. Gram. t. 338, a Munroio ad Melocannam relata, a Kurzio rectius ad 
