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inferior exterior 3-nervis, interior 5-nervis, duplo fere minor 
spiculæ abortione bifloræ, rudimento tertii stipiliformi, apice 
clavato. Flosculi difformes inferior lævis. Palea exterior 
breviter mucronata, navicularis, 7-nervia, obsolete emarginata. 
Inferior planiuscula minor, bicarinata binervis secus nervos 
scabrella. 
Flosculi superioris palea, lateraliter hispida pilis deflexis 
ebulba oblique, basi valde bulbosis, cellulosam exsertis, emar- 
ginatione magis evidente. 
Caryopsis utriusque obovato conica, styli base apiculat. Sta- 
mina, lodicule nondum vise, 
Nigrigam versus in sylvis occurit. Legi etiam apud Nun- 
klow : January 21st, 1835. It. Ass. 321. 
BAMBUSA. 
1. Bambusa monogynia, Pl. CL. Fig. II. 
Spicule aggregate in fasciculos sessilibus alternantibus, 
squamis scariosis suffultz, et interstinctze, semunciales, pluri- 
floree in bracteá glumis simillima vacua cum spicula secedenta 
suffultæ. Glumz, scarioso-membranacee, magne, navicu- 
lares carinatze, carina sepe obliqua, pubescento-ciliata, axillis 
gemmiferis ! 
Spicellz glumis 2 carinatis, carinis bispidis, ciliolatis, axillis 
gemmiferis. Pales; convolutze coronam, series aliquas imbri- 
catione formentes, inferiores vacuze, superiores hermaphrodi- 
te. Ovarium stylusque glaberum. Stigma lineari-lanceolat. 
glabrum. 
Palez exteriores 1-2, infimz, vacue, latissime sunt ex- 
panse suborbiculares, convolute, concavissime, Scarioso- 
membranacez, zequivenis, venoso-striate, interdum  emargi- 
nate, marginibus ciliato-pubescentibus. 
Interior flosc. perfectorum tantum aliquoties angustior, 
paullo brevior consistentia eadem, ciliata, dorso hirsuta bicari- 
nata, 5-venia, vel 8-venia, lateralibus adjectis et duabus præ- 
