2676 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY (Vor. VIT, Arr. 114 
with the point broken or warn off. Leaves alternate, at 
the ends of the slender twigs, flat, tough, very smooth, 
somewhat darker green on the upper side, setaceously acu- 
minate, base abruptly obtuse or truncately rounded, the lar- 
ger lamina 4 cm wide below the middle, 25 dm long, en” 
tire, subcoriaceous, a trifle glaucous toward the more or less 
undulate base, broadly linear or linearly lanceolate, curing 
brownish; petiole or the basal portion of the blade rigid 
and usually twisted, brownish and glaucous, broadly flattened; 
. sheaths greenish, overlapping, imbricate toward the base, sep- 
arated at the throat; ligule nearly truncate or minutely 
auriculate, provided with stramineus bristles 5 mm in length; 
midvein more conspicuous beneath, the lateral ones much 
less so. Flowers not observed. Infrutescence upon leafless 
branchlets, chiefly terminal, from 3 to 9 dm long, its al- 
ternate branchlets relatively short and parallel, shortly re- 
branched; spikelets in sessile irregular small groups scattered 
especially numerous toward the distal end; giumes pale straw 
colored and persistent; fruit hard, 1.25 cm long at least 
when mature, nearly as thick across the middle, ends trun- 
cately rounded, subglobose or more ellipsoid, glaucous, dark 
purple of deep wine color when fully ripe, containing A 
solitary large seed, not dry but rather fleshy, apex provid- 
ed with a short minute point. 
Type specimen number 12059, A. D. E. Elmer, Magalla- 
nes (Mt. Giting-giting), Island of Sibuyan, March, 1910. 
This climbing bamboo was collected in red soil of turf 
interspersed with shrubberies along the Pauala river bank 
at about 100 feet above the sea. The local Visayan called 
it “Bolocouwe.”” 
I have repeatedly collected fruiting specimens of Dino- 
chloa scandens (Blm.) O. K. from which our new species is 
distinguished at once by its much larger fruits or seeds 
which hang in grape-like clusters. 
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| Isachne apoensis Elm. n. sp. 
- Loose clumps or more or less scattering; stem reddish 
especially toward the base, 4 to 7 dm high or long, 1.5 
mm thick, terete, glaucous green or straw brown, glabrous, 
