

44 COLONEL MUNRO'S MONOGRAPH OF THE BAMBUSACE^E 



ncrvos 



obsolete prominulos dense brevipubescentes, margine ciliatae, ore ciliis lincalibus pallidis 

 fimbriatffi. Spica elongata, spithamaa et ultra, basi aphylla aut foliolo aueta, spiculis sessilibus sub- 



mo+i\. x™^,in A-f\ lin lmiM p\\*rti\cpi\. P-labra. 4-5-flora. in suDeriore parte ramulorum 



app 



longioram polyantha, in ramulis brevioribus oligantha, flosculis duobus infimis neutris. Glumce 

 uugustse, acuminata?. Palea inferior lanceolata, subulato-acuminata, cinereo-obscura, nervosa; 

 superior brevior, obtusa, superne carinis fimbriata. Stamina 3, loculis obtusis. Styli ad basin dis- 

 crete Ovarium infra apicem constrictum." — Rupr. descr. et icon. 



\). A. c vpillifolium, Grisebach in Enum. Plant. Wrightian. Cubensium, in Mem. Amer. 



Acad. Scien and Arts, new series, vol. viii. 521 (1862). Racemo simplici, spiculis 

 valde distantibus, pedicellatis, foliis capillaceis. 



Hah. Cuba, " supra arbores et fruticeta scandens," Wright, no. 738 ! v. s. 



(C 



ramulos 



vulgo excedentibus. Folia flexilia, tenuissima, capillacea, 3-6 poll, longa, canaliculata, glabra, mar- 

 gine scabriuscula. Vagina breves, lseves, ciliis albidis flaccidis 1-2 lin. longis ore 



ramulis 



-2 lin. longis ore fimbriata}. Race- 

 alis. Spicula breviter pedicellata, 

 2-6-flora, flosculis 1-2 infimis neutris deorsum decrescentibus. Palea inferior (flosculi fertilis) 

 linear i-attenuata, apice obtusiuscula, superne nervata, rhaehillse articulis clavatis triolo lomnor " 



The extremely narrow capillaceous leaves distinguish this at once from all the other 

 species of tho genus. I imagine this to be the plant referred to by Kuprecht at p. 118 

 as a peculiar state of A. Cubense, where he says, "Singularis adjacet pars culmi sterilis, 

 internodiis 5-poll., hevigatis, ramulis ad nodos densissime compacteque verticillatis, bre- 

 vissimis (lfpoll.), angustissimis ; vaginis 2-3 glabris, ore albido pilosis, in folia (relative) 

 longissima (2-pollicaria), angustissima (J lin.), filiformia, flexuosa productis." 



10. A eimbriattjm, Grisebach, I. c. 521, racemo 5-7 poll, longo, spiculis imbrw«tis, 



Hab 



glabris ; foliis 2-4 poll, longis, glabris ; vaginis ore longisshne fimbriatis 



JJ 



internodiis 



Wright, no. 155 1 ! v. s. 



basi snl 



„^ v*nj., ,-* pon. longa, sub 2 1m. lata, pateutia, margine glabra. Vagina teviuseute, ore 

 hmbms palbd.s sub 6 elongatis pateutibus iu^ualibus [brngMm, 10 lin. lonois) fimbriata. 



terminalis 



catis. Spicvla 3-5-flora>, 6-8 lin. long*, glabra. 

 lineari- acuminata, nervosa. 



ssime 



brevissima. Paha inferior 



Alow-growing grass, extremely like Garnotia wnnaria ™ hM* n n vLu • t i 

 at sio-ht lw «.<» ™ i 11 / w/nucia scopana in habit, easilv distinguished 



at sight by the very remarkable long fringes of the vaginse. 



11. A 



approximate, sessilibus, pubescent ibus, foliis an^ustis 1 9 ™n i • ,\ ^ 

 minus pubescentibns, vaginis fimbriatis. & ' P ' ^^ ™ U ™ plU 



«ab. Mexico, Giesbregkt, no. 234, Liebmann, 72 I • Venezuela ? r l • m 



Fendler, 1624 ! v. s. enezuela ?, Colonia Tovar, alt. 6500-7500 ped. s. m. 



grac 



liirsut 



is. 



*t ^'^auussimus, csespitosus, 20-30-r>Pflilw ir,+^ v . , , 



** ad uodos ZL* ertiel air" ^ ■! "T ^^ * "^ ^ 



, ciuLiiiati, ramulis simmicibus vp < v;«; a „i,o^: . x„„. -^„ B 



implicibus vel divisis, glabri 



