BAMBUSE. 
ARBORESCENT or shrubby grasses, sometimes climbing. Culms jointed; nodes more or 
less prominent and bearing culm-sheaths of various shapes; iuternodes hollow, Leaves 
flat, usually linear or oblong-lanceolate; petiole short, articulated with a leaf-sheath which 
is variously auricled.. Inflorescence various, usually a large compound panicle with spicate 
branches, Spikelets 1- to many-flowered. · Empty glumes 1 to several, gradually enlarged 
upwards; the lower sometimes bearing imperfect flowers. Flowering glume usually similar 
to empty glumes. Раба usually large and 2-keeled, sometimes not keeled and convolute, 
occasionally wanting.  .Lodicules usually 3, sometimes more, sometimes none. Stamens 
3 or 6 or (in one genus) very many. Ovary globular or elongate, surmounted by the 
style which is sometimes undivided, but more usually cleft into 2 or 3 or rarely more 
stigmas. Fruit a caryopsis, with a thin crustaceous or fleshy pericarp adnate to or 
separable from the seed. 
Sub-tribe 1. Arundinariee.—Stamens usually 3, palea 2-keeled.  Pericarp thin, 
adnate to the seed. Mostly small shrubby species, (pp. 1 to 28). 
Sub-tribe 2.. Eubambusec.—Stamens 6. Palea usually 2-Кеејед, Pericarp thin, adnate 
to the seed, Mostly large species, (pp. 28 to 77). 
Sub-tribe 3. Dendrocalamee.—Stamens 6. Palea 2-keeled. Регісагр fleshy or 
crustaceous, separable from the seed, (pp. 77 to 111). 
Sub-tribe 4, Melocanneee.—Stamens 6 or more, Spikelets 1-flowered.  Palea none 
or similar to the flowering glume,  Pericarp crustaceous or fleshy, separable from 
the seed, (pp. 111 to 128). : | 
Gub-tribe 7, —ARUNDINARIEA. 
Spikelets 1- to many-flowered, racemose or paniculate, empty glumes 1 to 2 . 1. Arundinaria. 
Spikelets 1- to 4-flowered, spicate, spikes bracteate, empty glumes 2-3 . . . 2. Phyllostachys. 
1. Arundinaria, Michauz. 
Erect or climbing shrubs. Culms slender, rarely over 1 in. in diameter; nodes usually 
prominent, internodes rather short; branches fasciculate from the nodes, short. Culm- 
sheaths thin, papery, straw-coloured; imperfect blade narrow, subulate. ^ Leaves usually 
small, articulate on the sheath, many species bearing distinct regular transverse veinlets, 
Inflorescence variable, sometimes on separate culms, sometimes terminal on leafy culms, 
sometimes with leaf and flower branches intermixed, paniculate or racemose. Spikelets 
Ann. Вот. Bor. Garp. Carcurra, Vor. VII. 
