106 COLONKL MUNRO'S MONOGRAPH OF THE BAMBUSACEiE. 



niontes Neilgherrics, iScA/MiV/. ; var. " spieulis, in {ilomerulis, a;quo spatio distautibiis spurie vcrti- 

 cillatis," Ncgapatara, no. 103 ! =207 ! = 1802 ! // iijht. v. s. 

 Ctilinus (quoad altitudiiioni milii ignotiis) forsan sufrruticosus, fistulosus, non solidus, glauco-viridis, iuter- 

 nodiis ramorum sitpissinic apice liirsiitis, iiiferiorihus (pnecipuc in culmis florifcris) tota longitudint- 

 liirautis ct sa;pc uiio lati-ro sulcatis. Folia lincari-Iiinccolata, 2-3i poll, longa, 1—5 lin. lata, apice 

 acuta, basi subtruiicata vol rotundata, attcnuata in pctioluin utrinquc liirsutum, margine brcvissimc 

 scrrata, sujjra pilis sublongis, basi subbulbosis, sparsis, subtus pilis brevissimis liirsutiuscula, ncrvis 

 sccuiidariis utroquc latere ;">. Var/iiia; sujjcrne hirsuta:, discolorcs, apice eiliis albis teuuibus fim- 

 briatae. Panicula decomposita, interuodiis infcrioribus 4—5 poll, longis, sicpissime hirsutis, angulatis, 

 striatis, uno latere intcrdum profunde sulcatis, raniis paucis, simplicibus vcl compositis, valdc ina;qua- 

 libus, 6-4i0-pollicaribus, ad nodos semiverticillatis, s])iculis per ramos ramulosquc irrcgulariter pani- 

 culato-agglomeratis, nonnullis distinctc pcdicellatis ct solitariis, approximatis, ercctis. Intcrdum, 

 panicula noiidum ovoluta [lllr/ht, 1802), s[)iculis circa nodos ramorum ramulorumque dense glome- 

 ratis, glomcrulis suba;(piidistantibus. Spirula ])alli(la, 7-9 lin. longa, 7-9-flora, flosculis 3—5 per- 

 fcctis, rcliquis incomplctis, glumis vcl bractcis 2 vcl pluribus, gcnimam spiculaj impcrfcctte foventibus, 

 intcrdum, in spiculis solitariis, longc distantibus. Pa/ca inferior basi hevis, supcrne Icviter nervosa, 

 margine nunc glabra nunc ciliata; superior, in Hosculis pcrfectis, carinis longc ciliata, ultra infcri- 

 orcm plus minus prominens. Squamula fimbriataj, nervosa;, intequalcs, dua; obtusae, tcrtia sublongior, 

 lanccolata. Stamina 3 conneetivo obtuso vcl breviter appendiculato. Stylus basi conico-bulbosus, 

 fere ad bulbum plerumquc 3-fidus, intcrdum 2-fidus. Caryopsis lineari-oblouga, styli bulbo hirsuto 

 persistentc conico coronata. 



I have been a little doubtful of the propriety of retaining the specific name of " orieii- 

 tiili^ " for this plant, as there is a specimen in herb. Wight., no. 206 b (1800), which is 

 marked by Nees himself " Buinbiisa orioitalis, milii," and is certainly not the plant 

 described above, but, I believe, B. (tvitmUnacea, Retz. However, the remainder of Wight, 

 1800, and also his 1802, are certainly the plant described and. figured as B. orientaUs h\ 

 Ruprecht, and very probably that described by Noes also ; and there may, therefore, 

 have been some mistake in the labelling. In the .structure of the spicula this species 

 approaches very closely to B. aruiidhiacea ; liut after an examination of the numerous 

 excellent specimens collected by Wight in AVcstern India at Quilon in 1835, I have no 

 doubt that the species is a good one. I should imagine that the plant is of much dwarfer 

 liabit than any other species of the section, and is probably only about 8-9 feet high. The 

 I)aiiicl(^ is fistulous and soft, and almost herbaceous in appearance, and the lower portion 

 is angled and unusually hirsute. I do not perceive any traces of thorns, and 1 observe 

 that in the " Linnaja," p. 472, Nees does not describe the culm as spinous. Ruprecht, 

 however, says the branches are shortly spinous. This may possibly, from its prol)able 

 height, be B. arundo of DalzoU and Gibson in the ' Flora of W. India,' described at 

 p. 290 as having " culms 8-9 feet high, and spicula 6-8-flowered," " Chiwarce " of 

 Mahableshwar. They state that the culms of this species are thorny, and that walking- 

 >tieks are made of tlieni. 



20. B. VULGARIS, Wendl. Collect. PI. ii. 20, t. xlvii. mala (1810). Culmo arboreo, in- 

 erini, panicula perfccta supra decomposita, ramis striatis vcl Icrelibus et nitidis, ad 

 nodos spiculas oblongas, comprcssas, solitarias vel paucas vcl plurimas gereutibus ; 

 palea infcriore basi sitbatlenuata, superne nercosa et margine fimbria ta, superiore 



