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THE TRUE GRASSES. 



Usually tall arborescent shrubs or climbers, with 

 simple or compound, rarely capitate, panicles ; spikelets 

 in fascicles along the branches of the inflorescence. There 

 are three geographically distinct sections : 



Sec. I. Eubambusa. Palea with projecting keels, which, 

 however, are not at all, or only indistinctly, winged. 



Fig. 109.— Bambusa vulgaris Wendland. Habit (^). (After Maout and 

 Dec, Trait6 de Bot.) 



Species thirty (besides several which are known only 

 by their leaves), all belonging to the Old World. B. 

 Bafoooa Boxb. and B. Tulda Eoxb. are esteemed as the 



