

12 COLONEL MUNRO'S MONOGRAPH OF THE BAMBUSACE.E. 



Arthrostylidium, Chusquea, and Flatonia, in BromecB, in consequence of the " stigmas 

 projecting laterally from the flower." In the numerous specimens I have examined I 

 have never observed any tendency to such a structure, as I understand it ; nor is there 

 any represented in the numerous dissections contained in the plates attached to Ru- 

 precht's memoir. 



2. Bambuse* ver*, Nees in Agros. Brasil. 531 (1829) ; in Linnsea, I c. 465 ; in Lindl. Nat. Syst. 



/. c, in Fl. Afr. Aust. /. c. 461; Miquel, I c. 361. Bracteiflora , Link. Hort 



(1827), partim. 



ticosus, nunquam scandens, non raro " Tabasheer" fundens. Infl 



suffi 



praealtum 



denudatum terminans, ramosa et ramosissima, ramis simpliciter vel composite spicatis vd laxi- 



lm 



spicul 



sessilibus. 



Spicnla pluriflora, ssepe multibracteata, sursum deorsumque imperfecta, interdum biformis raris- 



sime dioica. 



inferior 



urimis 



rotundata 



iinipaleaceis simillimas. Paha superior bicarinata vel dorso 

 .. , t Stamim *yP ice 6 > filamentk basi liberis vel monaclelphw, antherarum con- 



nectavo vel obtuso vel ap 1C ulato. Squamul* typiee 3, abortu 2, vel raro plane defieientes. Stylus 

 vel brevis et brevrssunus eito trifidus vel basi plus minus longe simplex et apice tantum M-fi? 

 tentopn, ovuhs vel oblonga vel (praeeipue in Ox.jtenanthera) anguste linean-oblonga, suleo to, 



tudinali notata, scutello extus visibili. 

 Gramma Itujus seetionis in utroque hemisphserio crescunt. 



distinguendum 



Link's name , of Bracteiflora for this section claims precedence in point of date ■ but it 

 includes all the species both of this section anrl *w mi • , ' 



thought I was justified in adopting Kces' name Si * T' ^ ^^^ ' 



name in his amended cation J SiSTf. £^S2 7^ u" I* ° U " 

 linensis,' published six years after the Z n tv , lohune of «» ' "ortus Bero- 



one word, *__,« J, indut^;h^U n o;t^l en,,lneratiOI, "" °* "" 



3. Baccifer*:, Munro. 

 Culmus inermia fan semnp 



Infiorescentia 



suttrutiu , SUS) S8B pc scandens, raro Tabas/uer funnVn* 



;len 8 i „,„„ e„»ge stl3 , . 2ZLJJ5 Liter 8 ram ° S ramUl ° SqUe '" 

 braeteata, aggregate, e. g. ife foMSBa 4fln ^^ve c ' i r ,P ° ,lta " eU " lgSt " ""* '^ 



M <U>».ati s „ lffutaun , e. g. 0^*^,^352?^ .^ terming i I™ supren,,- 



oramm interdum fere spudfbrmi*, e g Beesha et S' i , , ? ^""plex terminal,, ,,au- 



compo.it. vel erimi. p lifera. ul t m a ut 1!. ^Z ^ """""" ''"" "" l "' "*" 



verticillos 

 ba 



Devdrocalamo multiflora. 



^muocaiamo multiflora. Glumm multinervi* in+C^ penectis, m Temostachyo et 



olutissim 



oin.ueroaata. &,„ 6j vel /w ., M "— - « non raro eearinata, 



%M t ypi ee 3, i n terd„ m p lurimie ^ ^eient C T^™ ° btUS " "' 



apiculata 



%/«» basi semper longe simplex, in 



In 



'>-,• vel^ w/om ^ 1U ])eriffvni0 inclu b su 7 j2 S *f , ™- ^^- fa 

 titab tantum ««*» fni ;, ' JS • J mC Scutcllum extl1 ^ ^on visibile 



terdum 



ia sunt. 



