GRAMINEAE 77 
view to locating some of Blanco’s doubtful species, The material 
distributed herewith is the form known in Batangas as calbang, 
it agrees with Blanco’s description as to size, habit, and other 
characters indicated by Blanco, and may safely be assumed to 
represent the species Blanco described. Schizostachyum mer- 
rillii Gamble is a synonym of S. textoriuwm (Blanco) Merr. 
Illustrative specimen from Bauang, Batangas Province, Lu- 
zon, February, 1915 (Merrill: Species Blancoanae No. 714). 
Bambus lumampao Blanco FI. Filip. (1837) 272 (sp. nov.); ed. 2 (1845) 
189; ed. 8, 1 (1877) 8388 =SCHIZOSTACHYUM LUMAMPAO (Blanco) 
Merr. in Am. Journ, Bot. 3 (1916) 63 [Schizostachyum mucronatum 
Hack. in Philip. Journ. Sei. 3 (1908) Bot. 169]. 
While Blanco’s description is short and imperfect there is 
not the slightest doubt as to the correctness of its interpretation 
as identical with Schizostachyum mucronatum Hack. It is an 
erect, thin walled, gregarious bamboo, in some provinces almost 
exclusively occupying large areas of land. It is generaily known 
now as cavia boho, but I have seen specimens of it under the 
native names bocaui and lumampao as cited by Blanco. Blanco’s 
description, short and imperfect as it is, unmistakably applies 
to the species as here interpreted, which is abundant in some 
of the provinces near Manila. 
Illustrative specimen from Lamao, Bataan Province, Luzon, 
March, 1915, there known as cava boho (Merrill: Species Blan- 
coanae No. 891). 
Bambus lima Blanco FI. Filip. (1837) 271 (sp. nov.); ed. 2 (1845) 189; 
ed. 3, 1 (1877) 336=SCHIZOSTACHYUM LIMA (Blanco) Merr. in 
Am. Journ. Bot. 3 (1916) 62 [Schizostachyum hallieri Gamble in 
Philip. Journ. Sci. 5 (1910) Bot. 274]. 
This species is widely distributed in the Philippines at low 
and medium altitudes, being known from central Luzon to Pala- 
wan, Mindanao, and Basilan. Among the Philippine bamboos 
it is well characterized by its long internodes, these from 90 
cm to 1.2 m in length. Blanco’s description is very imperfect, 
and he saw no flowering or fruiting specimens. In spite of 
this I consider that there is absolutely no doubt as to the identity 
of the species. Blanco specifically mentions the long internodes: 
“La distancia entre nudo y nudo es grande”, and this form is 
the only Philippine bamboo known to me with long internodes; 
moreover, the Tagalog name anos cited by Blanco for Bambusa 
lima is constant and is applied only to this species so far as our 
extensive collection of bamboos shows. Our four specimens of 
this species from the Tagalog provinces all bear the native name 
anos. Mr. Gamble’s statement, op. cit., that Blanco described 
