Bambusa.]} GRAMINACEAE. 537 
Susrripe XI. BAMBUSEAE. 
Spikelets 1-to many-flowered, with sometimes one or more rudimentary 
florets above the fertile ones. Outer empty glumes 2 or more, gradually 
increasing in size from the lowest one. Paleae generally large and bicarinate. 
Lodicules generally 3, rather large. Stamens 3, 6 or more. Styles 2 or 3, 
mostly united at the base — Tall grasses, with woody stems and plane 
stipitate leaves. 
35. BAMBUSA, Schreb. 
Spikelets loosely clustered along the branches of a panicle, 1- to many- 
flowered, the uppermost floret often staminate only and the lowest sterile. 
Glumes stiff, awnless, sometimes mucronate, faintly many-nerved, the 3 
or 4 lowest empty, the flowering ones longer. Paleae as long as thei 
glumes, the 2 sharp keels prominent and ciliate. Lodicules 3. Stamens 6, 
free. Ovary hairy at the top. Style elongate, simple or with 2 or 3 
stigmatic aes s. Caryopsis oblong, free, the thin pericarp adherent. 
— Panicle very compound. 
About 24 species of tropical Asia. 
1. B. vulgaris, Schrad. d: Wendl. — Steudel, Synops. Pl. Glum. T, 329. — 
Unarmed, 20—40 ft. high, the branches scaly below, striate. Leaves ery 
oblong-lanceolate, 6—12‘ long and 1/2—2' bro ad, acute, rounded a 
base, scabrous, ciliate at the mouth of the genus terminating Sika 
Spikelets 6—10” long, stramineous, 6—8-flowered, with 3 4 fertile 
florets, the upper ones tabescent; the glumes of the fertile florets ovate- 
lanceolate, with subulate points, 15—19- nerved, abruptly passing into the 
shorter sterile ones. Style long, pubescent, simple or 2—3 cleft. Anthers 
orem purplis 
oleae i epperenitty wild in low valley 
all islands, but not — both cu 
weutas Oahu) o rat the foot of dg . Nat. nam wast riogieteary and Isachne. The 
Species f Indian origin but has found “a way gale r tropical countri 
of Asia, A iit y came from Ch: t aly De of this ce ; 
at least such was the opinion of the late Capt. John ze hose residence in th try 
ted from t e and who during his long life-time took a lively interest in 
the introduction and domestication = useful orn nd trees. While with the people 
wide range in the building and 
m 
of other se a the use of the bamboo has 
the Hawaiians use 
h 
fitting out of houses, in the Rial een of tools po" articles of trade, 
it almost “sately in making fishing poles and outriggers of canoes. 
36. SCHIZOSTACHYUM, Nees. 
Spikelets loosely clustered along the rhachis and branches of a panicle, 
i: flo wered, the axis scarcely articulate and con i 5 
es 
sed becoming convolute, 
keel- and awn-less, many-nerved. of the. eecigncsuie flower want- 
rrow. Stamens 6, free. 
ing or similar to the glume. dia 2 or 3, na , 
Style elongate, 2—3-cleft. Caryopsis subglobose, enclosed in the persis- 
