Phyllostachys GRAMINEAE Shibataea 



Shrub, 1-4 m. high; culm becoming purple-black. India, China, Japan; locally in 

 Che., Ki., Ku. Commonly cultivated. 

 4a. Phyllostachys nigra (Lodd.) Munro var. henonis (Mitf.) Stapf ex Rendle (Tan 

 Chu; Vivid Bamboo) Habit as in P. nigra. China and Japan; locally in An., Ki., 

 Ku. Commonly cultivated. 



"Phyllostachys puberida (Miq.) Munro (Ga. C. Ser. VI. 773-774. 1876), to which this var. 

 has been refeired, is a synonym of var. heno?iis. " — F. A. McClure. 



5. Phyllostachys nidularia Munro (Ga. C.n.s. 6: 773, 774). Subshrub, 1-2 m. high; 

 fls. V; fr. VI. China and Japan; locally in An., Che., Ki., Ku. Brushy slopes. 



6. Phyllostachys congesta Rendle 7\\Yj (Shui Chu; Water Bamboo) (F.H.E. 3: 438). 

 Subshrub, to 1.5m.; fls. VII; fr. VIII. Central, eastern and southern China; 

 locally in Che., Ku. Brushy slopes. 



7. Phyllostachys dubia Keng (Si. 11: 407). Subshrub, to lm.; fls. VI. Eastern 

 China; locally in An., Ku. Open slopes. Fig. 404. 



8. Phyllostachys stauntoni Munro (Linn. Tr. 26: 37). Subshrub, to lm.; fls. VI. 

 Eastern China; locally in An., Ki., Ku. Open slopes. 



5. Shibataea Makino fgfaM (Wo Chu Shu) 

 Low shrubs: rhizomes monpodial: culms flattened on one side, with 2-several brs. 

 at each node: spikelets as in Phyllostachys. A few species in China and Japan. 

 (After Keita Shibata, a Japanese botanist.) 



Key to the Species 



Blades to 12cm. long; margin, seen from beneath, sparsely weakly 



spinulose 1. S. kumasasa 



Blades not more than 9 cm. long; margins cartilaginous, strongly spinulose 2. S. hisjrida 



1. Shibataea kumasasa (Zoll.) Makino ^% (Wo Chu; Dwarf -bamboo) (R.M. 892). 

 Low shrub of tufted habit with rather broad thin lvs., 1-2 m. high; fls. unknown. 

 Eastern China and Japan; locally in An., Che. Shady places. 



Another small bamboo, with culms 30-60 cm. tall, short verticillate branches and 2 spikelet 

 clusters at nodes, growing gregariously on exposed ground by a village near Hangchow, collected 

 May 2, 1935, is probably an undescribed species of this genus. Y. L. Keng, December 26, 1939. 



2. Shibataea hispida McClure (L.S.B. 9: 57). Shrub; fls. unknown; resembling 

 S. kumasasa, the blades smaller, the margins more cartilaginous and more strongly 

 spinulose. China; locally in An. 



Shibataea chinensis Nakai (J.J.B. 9: 81, 85, pi. 1933) distinguished from S. kumasasa by 

 blades glabrous beneath, has not been seen. Described from Kiangsu, near Sungkiang, type in 

 Herb. Imp. Univ. Tokyo. — Agnes Chase. 



Tribe II. Festuceae Fescue Tribe UyfM (Hu Mao Ts'u) 

 Spikelets many-2-fld.; the florets perfect or the upper ones staminate or neuter, 

 the rachilla disarticulating above the glumes and prolonged behind the palea; rarely 

 the spikelets jointed with the pedicels and falling off with (or with a part of) them: 

 glumes 2, rarely 3, usually shorter than the first floret; lemmas several-1-nerved, the 

 awns when present terminal or arising from between the lobes, straight or rarely geni- 



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