22 COLONEL MUNRO'S MONOGRAPH OF THE BAMBUSACE^E. 



The thickened cartilagiuous margin of the leaves distinguishes this from all the species 

 previously descril)ed. In this respect some of the species, of which the leaves only are 

 known, approach it, and especially one which 1 have described as yl. densifolic, and which, 

 being, as it is, a native of Ceylon, may possibly be a peculiar state of this plant — altliough 

 it appears to me to he well distinguished by its remarkably narrow small leaves, in which 

 the tessellation is sometimes very indistinct. 



** Polia venulis transversis nullis vel inconsjylciiis. 



11. A. GLAL'CESCEXS, P. dc B. Agros. 14 i & 152. " Spica terminali simplici, spiculavo 

 solitaria bipollicari nutante, 6-9-flora ; foliis lanceolatis, basi truncatis, glaucis, brc- 

 vibus vel subtus pubescentibus." — R. et Sch. S, V. ii. 846 ; Nees, Agros. Bras. 520 ; 

 Kth. /. c. 426 ; Rupr. I. c. 113, tab. i. fig. 3 ; Uarsk. Cat. Uort. Bogor. 10 ; Steud. 

 I. c. 334, et in Zoll. Cat. 56 ; Miquel, /. c. iii. 413. Ludolfiu ylaticcsccns, AVilld. Mag. 

 I. c. 320 ; Spreng. S. V. i. 328 ; Link. Hort. Beroi. i. 248 & ii. 308. Fanicum glau- 

 cescens, Lam. En. jMeth. iv. 749. P. arboi'cscens, Linn, (fide Xees), sed B. et Sch. 

 I. supra c. recte aiunt, P. ylaucesceiis et arborescens Lam. et Ilort. non Linn. I 

 Trifflossum arundinaceum, Fisch. et 11. et Sch. I. c. 846. Bamhusa gluuca, Blume, 

 teste Buprecht, I. c. 160, in Indice, et Roem. et Sch. S. V. vii. 1355. 



Hab. Ind. or.? China? In hortis Europsc et Javaj cult. s. v. Ruprecht. 



"Cu/mtis suftVuticosus, .3-5-pedalis, ramulis (licliotoino-fasciriilatis. Fuliu in apicc j-ainulonmi confertissima 

 sub 8-na, verticalitcr disticha, ovato-lanceolata, 1-1 ^ jioU. longa, 3 lin. lata, basi cordato-rotundata, 

 glauca, inferne vel uudique, imprimis subtus, albido-glauca, laivia vel brevissime puberula, ucrvis 

 primariis 2, secundariis 7, margine scabcrrima. Vughue striatic, glabnc, ore fimbriatie. Spicuhe soli- 

 taria; paucseve, nutantes, 2-poll., nitidac, 6-9-florje, basi vaginis seu bracteis nonnullis intordum lami- 

 nigeris tects, glumis siniillimis, flosculis dissitis, 5-6-linealibus, ovatis acutis, aliis dorso aliis latcribus 

 compressis, artieulis rhachillae 2-lin., glabris. Palea superior inferiore siibduplo brevior." — Ruprecht. 



I have never seen a specimen of this plant, but judging from description alone, cannot 

 lielp believing that the plant is really a species of Bamhusa, and probably identical witli 

 Ii. nana, Roxb., a plant introduced to the Botanic Gardens at Calcutta from China. 

 Bomhusa glauca of Loddiges and Blume is probably the same; andRtrmcr and Schultz, 

 having seen specimens of B. glauca, sent to them by Blume himself, but m ithout flowers, 

 state that they cannot distinguish it from Aruudinaria glancesceiis, which they had been 

 acquainted with for many years in gardens, but had never seen in flower. Link says it had 

 only flowered once in cultivation. Lamarck says it had grown in the Paris Gardens for 

 many years, but had never flowered. Ruprecht certainly says he had seen dried flowers, 

 sent to him by Reichenbach, and figures two spicula; ; these ai-e exactly like some spiculae 

 [ have seen of Bamhusa nana, Roxb., ov glauca IMume, sent from the Gardens of Java, 

 under the name of Ischiirochloa jlorihunda. I am unable to understand Ruprecht's 

 dissection of the spicula in the figure above quoted, as 3 ovaries are represented in one 

 flower, and there is no explanation in the text of the figures. Fanicum arborescens, 

 Linn. Herb., quoted by Nees as a synonym, is a decided species of Fanicum, the same as 

 F. notulmn, Retz. ; l)ut attached to the specimens in Liunaus's Herb, is a small piece of 



