12 COLONKL MTNUO'S MONOCIKAl'll OF TlIK BAMHUSACE^. 



Arl/irosli/lidiitm, Chiitiquea, and Flu/oitia, iii Uroinccc, in consequcucc of tlic " stigmas 

 projectiug laterally from the flower." In the numerous specimens I have examined I 

 have never ol)served any tendency to such a structure, as I understand it ; nor is there 

 any represented in the numerous dissections contained in the plates attached to llu- 

 precht's memoir. 



2. I5amhuse.e vek.k, Nccs in Agros. Brasil. 531 (1829) ; in Liniisea, /. c. 1G5; in Lindl. Nat. Syst. 



/. c, in Fl. Afr. Aust. /. c. 461; Miquel, /. c. .301. Brack-iflora', Link. Ilort. Bcrol. i. 211) 

 {IH27) , partim. 



Culmiis spinosns vcl incnnis, crassus, fistnlosus, rarissiinc solidus, teres, arborcus, elatu.s, vol raro suffrn- 

 ticosns, unnqnam scandens, non raro " Tabashccr" fundcns. Iiijlorescentia, vel scapus radicalis (Bam- 

 biixa Ba/rooa, teste Roxb.), vel panieula vasta eulmum intcrduni praialtum s;t'i)e spineseentcm fblii.s 

 dcniidatum terminans, raraosa et ramosissinia, raniis simplieiter vel composite spieatis vcl laxi- 

 usenlis, adjectis rarissime hinc et inde ramulis foliifcris ; vcl, lit in Nasto, Guaduis (jnibusdam et 

 paucis aliis, panieula raniorum tcrminalis subsimplex spiculis pcrpaueis pedicellatis vel scssilibus. 

 Spicula pliii-iflora, stepe multibractcata, siirsum deorsumque imperfecta, intcrduni Informis, raris- 

 sime dioica. Glumee multincrviaj, inferiores, nisi in Nasto, fere semper gcmmipara; ; omncs floseulis 

 iufcrioribus ssepe plurimis sterilibus unipaleaceis simillimae. Palea superior bicarinata vel dorso 

 rotundata eearinata. Stamina typiee 6, filamentis basi libcris vel nionadclphis, antlicrarum con- 

 necti\'o vcl obtnso vcl apiculato. Squamiila typiee 3, abortu 2, vel raro plane deficientcs. Stylus 

 vel brevis et brevissimus cito trifidus vel basi plus minus longe simplex et apice tantum 2-3-fidus. 

 Carijojms ovalis vcl oblonga vel (prajcipue in Oxijtenanthcra) anguste lineari-oblonga, suleo lougi- 

 tudinali notata, scutello extus visibili. PericarjAum a scniinc non distiugiuniduni. 



Gramina hujus sectionis in utro([ue hcmisplia;rio crescunt. 



Link's name of Broclcijlorce for this section claims precedence in point of date ; l)ut it 

 includes all the species both of this section and the following one, and therefore I 

 thought I was justified in adopting Nees's name. Link, morever, does not use his own 

 name in his amended classification of Gramineaj in the 2nd volume of the ' Ilortus Bero- 

 linensis,' puhlishcd six years after the first. In this last enumeration he only uses 

 one word, linuihumcea;, to include the whole tribe of Bamboos. 



3. IJaccH'KR/k, Munro. 



Culmus inermis (an semper ?), fistnlosus, rarissime solidus, teres, iuterdum arl)oreus clatus, inti'rduni 

 suflFruticosus, sfepe scandens, raro Tabasheer fundcns. Iiijlorescentia vel panieula anipla decoin- 

 posita, laxa, e. g. Pseudostachyum et Dinochloa, vel spiculis secus ramos ramulosque in verticillos 

 deusissimos eongestis, e. g. Dendrocalamus, vel spiculis in spicas compositas elongatas basi longe 

 bracteatas aggregatis, e. g. Melocanna bambusoides, vel capituluni dcnsum terminale foliis supremis 

 basi dilatatis suil'ultum, e. g. Cephulostachyinn capitatum, vel panieula subsimplex tcrminalis pau- 

 ciramia intcrduni fere spieiformis, e. g. Becsha ct Schisostachyum Blumii. Spicula basi sjepc valde 

 composita vel eximie ])r()lifcra, ultima (vera) sicpe paucitlora floseulis 1-2 pcrfcetis, in Teinostachyo ct 

 Dfiidroculumo multifiora. Glumte multincr\ ire, inferiores siepissime gcmmi])aric. Palea suj)orior raro 

 deficiens, e. g. Schisostachyum Blumii, sajpissime involutissima ct non raro eearinata, srepe apice 

 bimucronata. Stamina 6, vel plurima, c. g. Becsha, basi libera, connectivo obtuso vel apiculato. 

 Squamula typiee 3, iuterdum plurima;, nunc deficientcs. Stylus basi semper longe simplex, in 

 perigyuii rostro arete inelusus, demum 2-3-fidns stigmatibus sa;pc rcvolutis. Fructus iuterdum 

 niaximus, bacciforrmis vcl pomiformis, in pcrigynio inelusus, hine scutcUum extus non visibile. 



In licmispliii'rio oricntali tantum genera Inijus sectionis obvia sunt. 



