538 GRAMINACEAE, [Schizostachyum. 
tent glume, free, the crustaceous pericarp loose round the seed. — Pa- 
nicle little branching, rather simple. Spikelets slender. 
ut 8 species, belonging to the Malayan Archipelago, S. China and the Pacific islands. 
S. glaucifolium, Munro, in Transact. Linn. Soc. XXVI, 137. — 
pes about 9 ft. tt emitting a few short pian at the nodes, the 
upper internodes 2—4” long. Leaves firm, glaucous, ovate- to linear-lan- 
ceolate, 10—20' ae and 1!/2-—-2‘ broad, long-acuminat 
sided base contracting into a petiole of 2—3‘, their sheaths minutely 
striate, glabrous, oe ciliate at the mouth. Ligule short, lacerate 
Flowering branches short, in fascicles on lateral swellings of the nodes, 
the spikelets in sialant clusters, narrow-cylindrical, pale.» — Seem. FI. Vit. 
p. 323. — Lee glaucifolia, Rupr. — Steudel, Synops. Pl. Glum. I, 331. 
Said to have been collected on the Hawaiian Islands by Wilkes’s Expedition rage 
man). 5 probably is the pal cultivated bamboo, which attains a hei of 
9—15 ft. and grows much less dense than B. vulgaris, inte has never — seen i aye 
The oldest plants grew in Mr. Bailey’s garden in Wailuku, Maui lieve, 
brought from aren — The species, originally reported yo Nukahiwa py a Marquesas 
nds, Ww on the Society, Samoa 
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poo these me species three others have been introduced from China and India of 
late yea 
