3i COLONEL MUNRO'S MONOGRAPH OF THE BAMBUSACE.E. 



Conspectus Specierum. 



Folia inconspicue tessellata, vaginis efimbriatis. 



Spicula fere semper 1^-flor a . ...... 1. T. Falconeri. 



Folia conspicue tessellata, vaginis saepe fimbriatis. 



S pieula 4-8-flora • 



2. T. spathiflortts. 



1. T. Falconeri, Hook. fil. MS. Foliis, subtus tantum inconspicue tessellatis, in petiolun 



sublongum supra sulcatum attenuatis; spiculis glabris, fere semper 1^-floris, ii 

 raccmo 5-7. — Bambasoides, Wall. Cat. 5040 ! Bambusa floribunda , Munro, in herb 



Trin. Coll. Dublin 



bottom, v. s. 



Wallich; Kumaon, Madhari Pass ! alt. 8000 ped. s. m 



internodiis 4-8 poll, longis glaberrimis, ramulis fere filiformibu 



sed validis, subsemipedalibus, plurimis ad nodos fasciculatis . Folia angusta, tenuia, pallida, 3-6 



subtus 



dariis 2-3, venulis transversis distantibus quam minime conspicuis tessellata. Vagina glabra, apice 



efimbriatae 



iflorescentia 



5-7 



rarissime 2|-floris. 



glabris 



racemi 



datira iucrcscentibus j interdum ad nodos 



amorum 



mbranace 



bracteis extremis breviboa gra- 



ciculati sunt. Gluma insequales, 



lervis, brevimucronata, margine 



bifidam et ciliatam vix sequ-ms. Sgitamula 



in stigmata 3 longa pennata divisus. 



basi nervosa*, apice longe ciliatae. Stylus basi subbulbox.s 



Hneari 



This appears to have been found only twice in flower-once by Wallich, in 1821 in 

 -Sepal, but without any snecified loenlitr ti,,-* ., • ™u, m io.i, u 



panic.e evidently ^iZt^lZ^' ^ZllT^ ™ * ^"^^ ^ Wi ' h " 

 terbottom on JL of t , g . J d ° CCaS1011 was ] V Strachey and Win- 



CSlrf ^ PaSSeS KUma0n ' The leOTeS are "*»»% ti, and the 

 .1 upt t« u mat on of the vagm*, m a straight line below the petiole afford a -ood 



k of distinction when the plant is found in leaf onW t t, f S 



; . ii . .. L . u m leal omv - I am unable to state, from the 



iiocunens I have seen, whether the flowering and WW , ' 



tinct as in Section 2 of J^lJT^S^. leaf - bea ™S culms are generallj 



of Amndmaria. There are two or three short 



leaf-bear 





Munro 



I fab 



p.i»> P . i. . (ISM,, «i» « ,„: » j' R.„l7f,u rr r tt *'"- **•'■ Ac * 



A ^«™, W,l|. , la to he,b. M„, JJJ » , "• B ' * ! S '"" 1 ' Sy " 33 ' 



J Fa I lie h 



Munro ! ; Simla, Hattu ! alt. 8400 



Gurhwal 



Clmpcha m svlvis 9500-10000 ped., Griffith 



alt 



v. s. 



