198 HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA., Bambusa. 
or more flowered. The inferior scales ( Calyx, ) thereof 
-abortive, or with male flowers. Corol of two unequal, 
long, taper, acute-pointed, smooth valves, Stamina six, 
about as long as the pistil. Germ ovate, Style single. 
Stigmas three, filiform, woolly. Pericarp. In this singu- 
lar species, itis a very large, hard, fleshy, conical, smooth 
taper, curved, pointed fruit, with a single,large, oval seed 
in each, ee 
6. B. spinosa. R. 
Subarboreous, dreadfully samed with simple, ae com 
pound spines. Spikelets from three to five-flowered; 
florets trigynous. Nectary cirenials eats 
Beng. Behor Bans. 
Arundarbor spinosa, Rumph, Amb, 4, 14. t. 2. 
This beautiful, middling sized, very elegant. species, 1 
have only found in the vicinity of Calcutta, where now 
and then some of the oldest. are found to blossom about 
the beginning of the rains, in June. 
_ Stems scarcely fistulous, jointed, &c. as in the other spe, 
cies ; in this many grew so close together, as to appear 
a single trunk at some distance, and by the help of theif 
bifariously alternate, triple branches, and. spines, 0 
completely bound together, that itis a most arduous 
task to cut down an old clump of them; joints from six 
to twelve inches asunder, The plants, or shoots of the 
clump, which come into flower, Ihave observed to be 
those of the centre, and they are taller, straighter, and 
with a much longer cavity, and longer joints than the 
rest, which are shorter, droop more, and wave elegant- 
ly with the motion of the wind, notwithstanding they are 
nearly solid, for it is only the larger stems that have 
small cavity, the branches being generally solid; whole _ 
height from thirty to fifty feet, Spines at the joints, and 
very generally present, through the whole plant triple; this 
is evidently the habit, though frequently incomplete; the 
