12 COLONEL MUNRO'S MONOGRAPH OF THE BAMBUSACE^E 



Mr. Bennett's paper in the Linnean Transactions contains a very interesting* account, 

 by Mr. Schomburgk, of this species, which is called "Curata" by the natives. The 

 lowest internode, which sometimes attains the extraordinary length of 1G feet, far sur- 

 passing that of any other Bamboo known, furnishes the " Sarbican," or blow-pipe 

 through which the poisoned arrows are blown by the natives of Guiana. M. Humboldt 

 states that these " Sarbicans " are much prized by their owners, and are often handed 

 down as heir-looms. The plant is said to have a very limited range, and to have been 

 i'ound, alter very careful search, in only three localities on the sandstone mountains 

 from which the three rivers mentioned above flow. In the specimen in the British 

 Museum the lowest joint is 12 feet 6 inches long. 



5. A. excelsum, Grisebach in El. Brit. W. Ind. Isl. 529. Racenio simplici, spiculis 



sub-6-floris, brevipedicellatis, 6-12 lin. longis ; foliis latis, vasnnis ciliis deciduis 



fimbriatis, nodis culmi glab 



Hob. In ins. Caribbceis, Dominica, Imray ! ; Trinidad ! « Las Cuevas Hills, Tocnche," Grhrbach. v. s. 



Cubius 60-80-pcdalis, diametro 6-12-poll., internodiis glabris, ramis florifcris fascicnlatis 3-5 poll, longis. 

 Foto lanceolata vel oblongo-lanceolata, acuminata, 3-5 poll, longa, plerumque 9 lin. lata, raro an/us. 

 tiora (31m. lata), subglabra, basi rotundata, petiolata, petiolo glabro, margine scal.ra, ncrvo medio vk 

 consmcuo, secundaria 5-6 Vagina striata, interstitiis subscabris, glabrcsccntcs, apicc ciliis 1 I li„. 



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