70 COLONKL MUNRO'S MONOGRAPH OF THE BAMBUSACE^. 



scahra, subtiis glauca, glabra, pariim traiisparciitia, iicrvis sccundariis a tertiariis non discernendis, 



mox convoluta, diutius pcrsisteutia, iiifcriora ramulorum propullautium ovato-acuminala, imbricata, 



G-7 lin. longa et 2 lin. lata. Vuy'uue striata;, scabra;, siirsum versus subpubcrulic." — Nves et 



Ruprecht. 



This ])l;int, as (loscrihod, is evidently in an abnormal condition ; and I think it is very 



probahlc that Uupreeht is correct in considerini,' that it may he a state of C. pmifolia, 



with some of the leaves very much broader than usual. Nees, however, considers that 



it is m<)r(> nearly allied to C. Cinnivfjii. 



C. AMPLOPANicuLATA, Stcud. Syu. 337 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. iii. 4^14:= Binockloa Tjan- 

 koi'reh. Base. 



C. FIMBRIATA, Stcud. /. c. SSS=Merostachi/8 capitata, llook. 



VIII. Planotia. 



Miuu-o. Platonia, Kunth, Gram. i. 139, 327, t. 7G! (scd non Martii) . Chusqueoe, subgen. Platonia, T<!ees 

 in Linn. ix. 486 ; Endl. (leu. Plantarum, no. 906. 



Spicu/a deorsum imperfecta, 3-flora, intra glumas scssilis vcl brcvissimc pcdiccllata, rhachilla ohsoleta 

 vcl subinconspicua, flosculis 2 infcrioribus ncutris 1-paleaceis, terminult hipaleaceo, liermaphrodito 

 simillimis. Gluitue 2, pleruraque breves, in P. acuminatissima longissimse. Flosculi neutri aeuti 

 vcl obtusi. Palea inferior flosculi fertilis coriacea, paueinervis, acuta aut obtusa, nunc divergens, 

 nunc superiorem, ssepe obtusam et dorso convexam, obsolete binervem, involvens. Stamina 3. 

 SquamulcB 3, membranaccje, vcl multinervcs obtusissimse, vel paucinerves lanecolato-acuminatae. 

 Stylus plerumque cito fere ad basin bifidus, stigmatibus basi nudis, superne plumosis, divergcntibus. 

 Caryopsis vcl ovalis vel ovato-oblouga et rostrata. 



(iramiua herbacea in Nova Granada, Quito et ins. Trinidad, in montibus excelsis cresccntia. Ciilmus sub- 

 enodosus, simplex, 6-l()-pcdalis. Folia basi inarticulata et valde attenuata, forsan omnium graminum 

 maxima, 2—15 ped. longa, 3-12 poll. lata. Vagina sajpc ore biappendicu/atce. Injlorescentia panicula 

 thyrsoidea vel decomposita, patula vcl contracta, folia superans, pedicellis plerumque brevibus, in 

 P. aperta longissimis. 



Many of the preceding pages had been printed before I observed that the same word, 

 Platonia, had been adopted by threo different authors for three very different genera ; 

 and the qviestion of priority then arose. Platonia of Rafinesque, probably tlie first in 

 point of date, is absorbed in Lippia, Linn. (Verbenacea?). Platonia, Martins, Kov. Gen. 

 et Sp., published in the same year (1829) as Kuntli's genus of Gramineae, has been re- 

 tained as a genus of Guttifera) at p. 174 of Bentham and Hooker's ' Genera Plantarum ; ' 

 and it is therefore certainly desirable that a new name should be adopted for Kunth's 

 genus. I have accordingly altered the word as little as jiossible, and adopted an ana- 

 gram, Planotia, containing the same letters. Widely different opinions are entertained 

 about this genus by different authors. Nees, Endlicher, and others have considered it a 

 section of Chusqnea. Ruprecht, at p. 120 of the monograph so constantly referred to, 

 says, " Platonia vero natura sua valde a Chusqnea distat," and does not include it 

 amongst the Bamboos, Grisebach says, " Platonia is less related to Chusquea than to 

 Uniola, and more distantly to Pfialaris." In my opinion Planotia must be placed next 



