388 



(1) Triticum vulgare \ ill. Hist. PI. Dauph. 2 (1779) 163; F.-Vill. Nov. 

 App. (1883) 328j Vidal Phan. Cuming. Philip. (1886) 169; Rev. PI. Vase. 

 Filip. ( 1886) 2S4. 



Luzon, Province of Bengasi (4768 UerriU) November, 1906. 



Wheat, rarely cultivated in the Philippines, not spontaneous. 



(1 have also specimens of // ortlcu iii sativum I... var. cul<)<m\ iron: plants 



cultivated in Benguet Province (No. 4746 Men ill), but like the preceding species 



this can not lie considered a constituent of the Philippine Mora. 



Tribe XIII. BAMBUSE^. 



Large, often tree-like perennial grasses, sometimes scandent. Spike- 

 lets 2 to 8 or sometimes L-flowered, in panicles or racemes, mostly in 

 tufts or clusters at the nodes of the panicle branches. Empty glumes 

 two to several, increasing in size upwards, shorter than the flowering 

 glumes. Flowering glumes awnless terminal awn. Palea two to many 

 nerved, rarely nerveless. 



I (it) I BAMBUSA Scinch. 



Spikelete with 2 to ti empty glumes, gradually increasing in size and 

 becoming like the flowering glumes. Spikelete 2 to many-tWered. 

 Ovary hairy. Usually tall arborescent shrubs, rarely climbers. 



Species ai»out (in in the tropical region of both hemispheres, the Philippine 



representatives, from lack of material in (lower and fruit not well understood. 



From Blanco's descriptions and the scanty imperfect material of this genus 

 at present available, it is impossible to make a satisfactory key to the species. 



(1) Bambusa blumeana Schultes f. Syst. Veg. 7' (1830) 1343; Munro in 

 Trans. Linn. Soc. 26 (lS(iS) 101; Kunth Fnum. 1 ( I s:5;< ) VM ; F.-Vill. Nov. 

 App. (1883) 323; Rendle in Ann. Hot. Gard. Calcutta 7 (1896) SO. pi. T< : 

 Vidal Cat. PI. Prov. Manila (1880) 47; Merr. in Philip, Joum. Sci. 1 (1906) 

 Suppl. 29. Bomb** pungent Blanco Fl. Filip. ed. I < l«:i7 ) 870. Wq. PI. ind. 



Hat. 3 (1S."»!I) 4-21. Hunihiis aimulo Hlanco 1. c. ed. - (1S4.">) 1SS. 



The commonly cultivated bamb f the Philippines, perhaps not a native 



species. Not seen in llowcr. T., CaWtyan totOO, CdiKij/aii . 



Malayan Peninsula and Archipelago. 



Probably the species credited to the Philippines by F.-Villar as Bambuta 

 arvndinaoea was a form of the above. The figure of Bambuaa arttndmaeea given 



by Vidal, Sino])sis, Atlas. | iss;5) t. 96. /. .1. was copied from Beddome's figure, 



and not drawn from Philippine material, teste Vidal I. C. p. 42. 



(2) Bambusa levis Blanco PI. Filip. ed. 1 (1837) 272; ed. 2 (1K4:>) 189; 

 Mi.|. Fl. Ind. Hat. 3 (is:.!)) 421. Dmdrooalamu* flagellifer F.-Vill. Nov. App. 

 (1883) :{24 ex syn. Blanco, non Munro. 



An endemic ( ?) species of uncertain value, known only from Blanco's descrip- 

 tion. T., Cauayang l><»>. 



(3) Bambusa lima Hlanco Fl. Filip. ed. 1 (1837) 271; ed. 2 (1846) 189; 

 Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. 3 (1859) 421; Merr. in Philip. Journ. Sci. 1 (1906) Suppl. 2!). 

 Bambitta longinodis F.-Yill. Nov. App. (1883) 323 non Miq.'.' 



Represented tfy the following sterile specimens. Luzon, Province id' Bataan, 



