<)() COLONF.L MUNRO'S MONOGRAPH OF THE BAMBUSACE.^i:. 



Hoj^'or. fide .Ali([. /. r. (var. Ibliis sui)rcmis valdo deminutis raraulisqiic plurihus efoli- 

 atis). Iscur(j('hl<Ht Jloribunda, Buse, iu IM. .Jun-Ii. 390; Miq. El. Ind. Bat. iii. 422. 

 Annul iiKO'if/ f/laitcesreiis, I*, de B. Agros. Iii, ci supra, p. 22, cum syn. omnibus. 

 Ludit i,'lumis ot ctiani palois inferioribus flosculorum inibriorum in folia conversis, 

 stvlo 2-l-rKl(), staminibus 3, vcl ctiam 0, obsoletis, filamcntis basi squamuloeformibus. 



Hub. in China (' Kcu-fa" incolis), Roxburgh; in Japonia, Buerger; ins. Xiphon in sylvis niontanis prope 

 b>iisokat()"-i, Piei-rot. Cult, in liortis Ind. or. Dacca et Calcutta, Hamillon ! Roxburgh, Hooker ! ; in 

 hort. Ceylon, status abnormalis, staminibus 3-G plus minus obsoletis, sub nom. " Chinese Bamboo," 

 ThwaUes\; in hort. Java., Blume, Kurz\ ; in hortis Europic plurimis. ("Tsiutsik" vel "Tsiuts 

 Take," Jap.) v. v. et s. 



CW;//?« suflVuticosus, incrniis, fistulosus, G-8-pcdalis, diauictro IJ-lincali; spathis (in culmis junioribus) 

 l.J poll, lon^is, ■ilaberrimis, striatis, iutus nitidis, apiculo lanccolato basi biauriculato scmipollieari. 

 Rami simpliecs vel compositi, ad nodos infcrlorcs numcrosissimi, ad supcriores 2-1-8 semiverticil- 

 lati, internodiis supcrne glabris vel scabriusculis vcl pruinoso-glaueis. Folia plcrumquc parva, 

 lanccolata, l-2i poll, longa, 2-3 lin. lata, intcrdum majora, 3-5 poll, louga, apice acutissima, basi 

 subcordato-rotuudata, pctiolo glabro flavesccnte, subtus pulclire cccsio-glauca, pilis brevissimis pube- 

 scentia vel dcinum glabrescentia, nervis secundariis subconspieuis, utroque latere 3-5. VugitKB 

 glabric, striatic, ore biappendiculatje, fimbriatte vel dcmum nuda;. Iiifloresceiilia nunc panicula de- 

 paupcrata, spiculis in spiea rcmotiflora dissite sparsis, ramo, foliis cito dclapsis, basi undo terminali ; 

 nunc spicida solitaria pauctevc, ramulis dense foliiferis terminalcs ; raro (in spec, e Ceylon) 

 panicula composita (an culrao terminalis ?), subaphylla, internodiis 4-G poll, longis, spiculis in glo- 

 iiuiiilis per ramos b]-cves, simpliecs vel compositos, semivcrticillatos dissite sparsis, paucis, injequa- 

 iiljus. Spicula prinium eylindrica, demum subcomprcssa, T-ll-flora, glabra, rhaehillic articulis con- 

 spieuis, elongatis, suleatis, superne tantum hirsutis, glumis ssepe gemmiparis et interdum, in spiculis 

 solitariis, apiee in laminara foliaceam expansis, flosculis 1-2 inferioribus et 2-3 supcrioribus ineom- 

 pietis (vel masculis vcl femincis), intermediis 3-6 hermaphroditis. Palea inferior 14-18-nervis, vix 

 acuta, glaberrima, superioreni multinervosam, carinis ylabram, apice tantum subhirsutam involvens 

 et supcrans. 8quuuiula> typicc 3, lanceolattc, elongatic, basi interdum callosic et inconspicuc nervosic. 

 Stamiua typicc 0, anthcrarum conuectivis m\\\c obtusis nunc seta apiculatis. Slijliis cito 3-fidns, 

 stigmatibus pulchre phimosis. Ovarium stipitatura, obovatum, supcrne hirsutum. 



Ill statu luso c Ceylon, aTliwaites mihi misso, stamina 1-3 tantum perfeeta, tria plus niiiuis obsolcta; luce 

 nui\e squamularum formam arrogant, nunc ad rudimenta brcvissima, sciuamulis normalibus adhaj- 

 rcntia, redacta. Stylus sa-pe abnormalis, mine indivisus, nunc bifidus, cruribus 1-2 itcrum divisis, 

 et liinc stigmatibus !■, nunc trifidus. In (losculis iiominllis 2 -3 ovaria adsuut. 



Whilst these paj^cs were passing through the press, I received some flowering spe- 

 cimens of this plant from Mr. Thwaites, which have enabled me to ascertain that the 

 opinions which I have long entertained, as stated above at p. 22, regarding the identity of 

 Ji. nanii and Ariniduiarid glaucescens, are correct. Some of Mr. Tlnvaites's specimens are 

 evidently in the same condition as those seen and figured by iluprccht in fig. 3. tab. i. of his 

 memoir on Bambusse, the three abortive stamens apparently being figured as 3 ovaries. 

 Tli(^ rudiments of these stamens arc certainly sometimes extremely minute, although occa- 

 sionally they are nearly half as long as, and very similar to, the squamula;. In all the 

 flowers which 1 have examined, I have been able, after careful maceration, to discover 

 the vascular bundles of the filaments. Thwaites savs, in a note attached to the sp(>ciinon. 



