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SACEiE 



37 



good condition, and none of the spikes are perfect. I h 



good and per feet 



flowering specimen from Amoy; bnt all the others which I have had access to are in lrat" 



. Prom the descriptions given by Miquel and others, taken, I presume, from living 

 plants in Japan, this species appears to vary extremely both in inflorescence and 

 foliage. This I can readily believe, from an examination of the Amoy specimen, which 

 exhibits most interestingly the gradual development of leaves into flower-bearing organs. 

 When this is taking place, it is easy to understand that a great amount of variation is 



likely to 



In the specimen I have referred to, the lowest glumes generally and the 



lowest paleae occasionally have the appearance of miniature leaves, with vaginae, ligulea 



; as progress is made towards tin 



cxte 



dis 



and cilia, enveloping, however, perfect fertile spiculue 

 top of the spike, the ligule first, then the cilia, and finally the Leaf-Ill 

 appears, and the uppermost glumes assume the ordinary shape and form of those organs. 

 The bracteas, however, at the base of the flowering branchlets do not seem to be subject 

 to much change. Griffith's specimen is interesting from the western locality in which it 

 was found ; writing of it at p. 38 of his Journals, he says, " Great part of the side of the 

 hill below Premsongs village is covered with a small hard Bamboo, which forms excel- 

 lent v 



alking- sticks 



A leaf-bearing 



specimen of this plant, without any specified 



locality being affixed, is attached in Linnaeus's herbarium to his Pamcum arbo 

 already mentioned at p. 22. According to Pierot, Buerger, 



md other 



till 



peeies 



names 



of Kuma Sasa, Kura Take, and lligama Take 



appears to bear the Japanese 

 Bambusa kumasasa of Zollinger, Steudel, and others is certainly a different species, 

 which I have called Phyll. kumasaca. Moreover Siebold, in his account of the economic 

 plants of Japan, in the 12th volume (1830) of the Batavian Transactions, when describing 

 16 species of Bamboo under their Japanese names, says that all arboreous Bamboos 



called "Take" or " 

 stated to bear both affixes. 



Me take," and all herbaceous 



Sasa;" whereas this species 



2. P Statjntoni, Munro. Culmo superne striato, viridi, foliis 1-2J poll, longis, supra 



tactu asneris mardne utroque fimbriato-serratis, petiolis supra subtusque hii-utis, 



piculis 2-3-fioris, glumis caducis, bracteis longis membranaceis 



Hab. China ! Sir G. Staunton. In herb. Hook, ex herb. Brown, v.s. 



Culmus gracilis, fistulosus, superne suleato-striatus, viridis, semiteres, uno latere caualiculatus 



to . . . . , , • 4.„ Unci a+tamiftta. in nptiolum brevem hirsutum, 



Folia 



ramulorum locata, 4-6 lin. lata, 1-2* poll, longa, utroque margme setoso-fimbnata, subconco 



tantum pubesceutia, nervis 



2-4 • venulis transversis creberrimis, conspicuis, elevatis. Vagi 

 sute. auice membrana ciliata terminate auriculisque duabus cilu 



superne 



appendicular. 



iflorescentia (foliis omnibus caducis) panicukeformi 



internodiis apice 



ramis iterum ramulosis, ultimis (basi bracteis longis hyanms acufs vemfs, sp.cas 



cares 



Spicule in spica 3, subdistantes, 2-3-florse, flosculis 1-2 infimis fertilibus 



6-9 



pedicellis rhachillaeque articulis hirsutis 



interdum 



plerumque acuminata mpe fioBCUitt breviores et spices 



hirsute. 



upcrne 



profunde bifida 



perfects 



