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(1) Triticum vulgare Vill. Ilis(. I'l. Daupli. 2 (1779) 153; F.-Vill. Nov. 

 App. (1883) 3:^3,: \"iii;il Pliaii. Cuiniiig. Philip. (1885) 159; Rev. PI. Vase. 

 Filip. (1886) 284. 



Luzon, Province of Beiiguet (4708 Merrill) Xovomber, 1900. 



Wheat, rarel}' cultivated in the Pliilippines, not .spontaneous. 



(I liav'e also specimens of Jlordcitm sativum. L., var. vulgurc, from i)hints 

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

 this can not be considered a constituent of the Pliilippine flora. 



Tribe XI IT. BAMBUSE^. 



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

 lets 3 to 8 or sometimes 1 -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. 



(09) BAMBUSA Schreb. 



Spikelets with 2 to G empty glumes, gradually increasing in size and 

 becoming like the flowering glumes. Spikelets 2 to many-flowered. 

 Ovary hairy. Usually tall arborescent shrubs, rarely climbers. 



Species about 60 in the tropical region of both hemispheres, the Philippine 

 representatives, from lack of material in flower 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 (1868) 101; Kimth Enum. 1 (1833) 431; F.-Vill. Nov. 

 App. (1883) 323; Rendle in Ann. Bot. Gard. Calcutta 7 (1896) 50. pi. //7 ; 

 Vidal Cat. PI. Prov. Manila (1880) 47; Merr. in Philip. Journ. Sci. 1 (1900) 

 Suppl. 29. Bambns punrjens Blanco Fl. Filip. ed. 1 (1837) 270. Miq. Fl. Ind. 

 Bat. 3 (1859) 421. Bambns arnmlo Blanco 1. c. ed. 2 (1845) 188. 



Tlie commonly cultivated bamboo of the Philippines, perhaps not a native 

 species. Not seen in flower. T., Cauayan ioioo, Canayan. 



Malayan Peninsula and Archipelago. 



Probably the species credited to the Pliilippines by F.-Villar :ts Bambusa 

 arundinacea -was a form of the above. The figure of Bambusa arundinacca given 

 by Vidal, Sinopsis, Atlas. (1883) t. 96. f. A. was copied from Beddome's figure, 

 and not drawn from Philippine material, teste Vidal 1. c. p. 42. 



(2) Bambusa levis Blanco Fl. Filip. ed. 1 (1837) 272; cd. > (18-45) ISO; 

 Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. 3 (1859) 421. Dcndrocalamus flagellifcr F.-Vill. Nov. App. 

 (1883) 324 e.\ syn. Blanco, non Munro. 



An endemic ( ?) species of uncertain value, known only frnm I'.hinro's doscrip- 

 tion. T., (Utnayanfi boo. 



(3; Bambusa lima Blanco Fl. Filip. ed. 1 (1837i 271; ed. 2 (1845) 189: 

 Miq. Fl. Ind. I'.at. 3 (1859) 421; Merr. in Philip. .Tonrn. Sci. 1 (1900) Suppl. 29. 

 Bambusa lovyinodis F.-Vill. Nov. App. (1883) 323 non .Mi(|.? 



Jtepresented by the following sterile specimens. LizoN, Province of Balaan, 



