COLONEL MUNRO'S MONOGRAPH OF THE BAMRUSACE/E. 



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]5AMBOOS. 



ublication I was reading a short time since I 

 the following passage : — " Bamboos are ever 

 graceful. Vou must look at the force and 



BAMiius.V uiiiKKocvri.A.-L-n.lcr ,l,i, „amc 

 IRli-.RF. in a recent nunihcr of ilio A',- 

 • fl<,;»'vs aiul clcscril,os a ll.xmUou, which 

 wn m the Japanese (lepanment of ihe I'ar 

 m ft will be remembered that in an ordi- 

 nboo cane the scars indicating the position of 

 !S run horizontally round the stem, but in 

 ly abuve .nentioned the.scars lake an oblinue 

 .the owest from the left obliquely up- 

 tlie right of the observer looking at the stem 

 abpve from the right to the left, and so on 

 y up the stem for a certain distance, when 

 Jntal direction is resumed. There is or was 

 riD-^h Museum a stem of such a Bamboo 

 ■l"l."i^ enough to attract the attention even 

 -t '■i'^cn■ant in such matters. We presume 



""' •' '" ^<^ sought in an uneven dis- 



force of growth, analogous to that 

 tlie so-called horse-shoe mode of in- 



of th 

 iduoe: 

 leave- 



:iE llAKDV CUARACTEK OV LaMGEKIA 



I ]\ °^ 'II' "■'''■"= Lapageria which 

 through from the mside to the outside of 



•small span-roofed plant-houses at Gimners- 



, -Vctoii, has this season borne several 



Kl matured a seed-pod or two, and this 



. 1^ "ii the north side, where scarcely any 



is. n is now four years since it was first 



1' ' '111 between the door-post and the 



■m that time forward the severest 



ely affected the shoot, which has 



"";' ■'' spreading branch. It has been 



lat the great aim of the grower should be 



te roots from harm-from frost-and the 



II lake care of themselves. 



■Ecr Ft'ciisi.is.—Amongst the desirable 

 S recently saw growing at the .Swanley 

 S one called penduliflora. It evidently 

 the corymbiflora type, but is less coarse- 



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to equal it except my next purchase, Bam- 

 iinacea, the true Bamboo. This was an 

 .11 plant as the Metake when purchased, 

 has now forty-eight canes from 9 to lo 





I, margiiic pilis violaceis vcl nic/ris ciliata; superior subajquiloiiga, 

 J vel obtusa vcl bimucronata, in flosculo supremo dorso convcxa. 

 3rtis, flexuosis, mucronc lovgo, hirsuto subulatis. Stylus loiigus, apice 

 ngum, apice hirsutum. 



Culmo diffuso, scandentc, internodiis floriferis plcrumque 

 9 lin. lougis, angnste cylindricis, curvatis, flosculo terminuU 

 oaleisque inferioribus pilis a/6i*longis ciliatis, foliis dubiis. 



-le" incolis), no. 19 ! Brand'is; Jloulmein, no. 27 ! Falconer, v. s. 

 riis, circninfercntia maxima Jg poll., internodiis bipedalibus, annulis 

 rnodii ffiquautibus, foliis deciduis." — Brandis. Folia dubia. Panicu/a 

 sita (pars superior 9-pcdalis in lib. Falconer adcst), internodiis sajpe 

 :e scabris, superioribus glabris et nitidis, ramis inferioribus ad nodos 

 s binisve, simplieiter verticillato-spicatis, interdum 2 pedes longis, 

 lensifloris, snbtequidistantibus. Spicula pallida, deorsum imperfecta, 

 •ibus 1-paleaceis, sterilibus, tertio masculo, termhinli hermaplirodito. 

 merso-nervosa, margine pilis albis patulis fimbriata ; superior sub- 

 3liqua ut in O. nigro-ciliata. 



f the fringe on the margin of the lower palea, the spicule 

 d from that of the preceding by the absence of a terminal 

 appears to be a much more slender plant, with a mucli less 

 % unfortunately, no leaves actually attached to any of the 

 , I have been unable to describe the foliage with any 



Culmo 10-12-pedali, ramulis ad nodos numerosis, inferi- 



iferis, s:i pe 2-3 ped. et ultra lougis, spiculis brevibus, 4-6 



is, sed saepius 3-floris, flosculis 1-3 bipaleaceis, palea infe- 



fimbriata, vel, in var /3, glabra, apice spinoso-acuta, an- 



foliis lanceolatis, ligula vel brevi vel elongata. — Dendro- 



iw. in Enum. 376. Bambusa stricta, Roxb. Cor. PL t. 80 ! 



quoad descriptionem, quie ad Dendrocalanmm strictitm 



ictus, var. spiculis glabratis," Xees, MS. in hb. Wight I 



3alea inferiore margine glabra, foliis pedalibits, 1\ poll. 



4000-5000 pcd. s. m., no. 3359! TImaUes ; Itid. or. in montibus Nil- 



. 176 ! = 3430 ! Wight. Yar. /3, Ceylon ! Thwaites. v. s. 



losus, striatus, circiter 1 poll, in diam., ramosus. Folia lanceolata, acumi- 



,parum obliqua, margine uno vel utroque serrata,supra glabra,subtus pri- 



, dcmum glabra, plcrumque 2-5 poll, longa, 6-9 lin. lata, nervis secun- 



•ansversis obsoletis (in var. /3 folia 12 poll, longa, 14 poll. lata, nervis 



, venulis transversis conspicuis). " Vagina fugaci-albido-pilosae, apice 



longe cacluco-ciliatsE," iigula nunc brevi, nunc elongata, apice mcmbranacea, obtusa. Injlorcscentia 



(an culmo foliifero teriniualis ?) panicida dccomposita, ramis inferioribus stepe longissimis, valdc ina;. 



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