COLONEL MUNRO 



OF THK BAMBUSACEvE 



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Kunth, and Endliclier have described the two lowest flowers as glumes, and the ordinary 

 spicula as 1-flowered, with a barren terminal rudiment. I am, however, of opinion that 

 Ruprecht is correct in considering ("ex analogia cum Rettbergiis," and several species of 



Chusquea) that the true glumes are reduced to a minimum, mid that the 



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glumes are really two barren flowers. Sprengel also suspected that the only speciefl 



Avas acquainted with was dioecous : but I 



ot 



any indications of such bein 



the case in any of the specimens of the different species which I have exam 



perfect hermaphrodite flowers 



& 



In 



some very 



stances I 



observed t\\ 



tl 



i 



picula? of M. Clausseni and M. speciosa, the other portions of the spicula remai 



unaltered 



Conspectus Specierum. 



Sectio I. Spiculse in spica terminali simplici, unilatcralcs. 



Spiculse ternse, vaginae ore fimbriate . 

 Spiculse solitarise, vaginae ore fimbriate. 



Fimbriis basi aequalibus. 



Flosculo seeundo longe ros/raZo-acuminato, hermaphrodite patente 



1. M. h nuifa 



vix breviore • 



. 2. M. specio$a. 



Flosculo seeundo vix acuminate, hermaphroditum adprcssum fere 



sequante 



3. M. Clausseni. 



Flosculo seeundo vix acute, hermaphrodite fere duplo breviore 

 Fimbriis basi plumosis 



Spiculse solitaries vaginae ore nudae. 



Flosculis 2 inferioribus glabris ...... 



Flosculis 2 inferioribus pilosis 



Sectio II. Spiculae in capitulum densum terminale congestae . 



. 4. M. brevispica. 



. 5. M. spars! flora 



6. M. Xeesii. 



7. M. Kuiithi!. 



8. M. capitata 



1. M. ternata, Nees in Agros. Bras. 529. Spiculis ternis, palca inferiore flosculi fertilis 



brevissime mitcronata, scahra, flosculum secundum neutrum duplo superante; vaginis 



apice 

 338. 



fimbriatis. — Kunth, I 



429 



Rupr. I. c. 12G, tab. x. 



lig. 28 



Steud. I 



Hab. In Brasilia! in svlvis. alt. 1200-1800 ped.s. m., preesertim super Serra do Mar 



de Janeiro, Minaes Geraes (" Tagaora 



jj 



Mai 



s. v. Xees et ilupr< < lit. 



(t Culmus 20-pcdalis, crassitie 3-5 pollicum, ramis verticillatis, glabris, ramulis florentibus bevibua. Folia 



oblongo-lanccolata, 7-9 poll, longa, f-lj poll, lata, acuminata, basi ctiam acuta, glabra, subtus pal- 

 lidiora, nervis secundariis utrinque 10-11, fascia obsoleta. Vagina striato-sulcatae, basi glabra?, 

 apiccm versus pubescenti-scabrse, ore breviter (Rupr.) vel fibris longis subcirrhosis (Xees) fimbriate. 

 Spica subrecta, 5-pollicaris, exserta, rliachi dorso glabra; spiculis ternis, biseriatis, imbricatis, (J-linc- 

 alibus. Spicula lanceolata, patens, flosculo intinio vix 1| lin. longo, 1-nervi, carinato ; seeundo herma- 

 phrodite, duplo breviore, mucronato, 9-nervi, pallide fusco, viridi punctate Paha inferior (floeculi 

 fertilis) ovata, 9-11-nervis, brevissime mucronata, pubescenti-scabra, \iridi punctata, amplcctens 

 superiorem paulo longiorem, glabram, apicc tantum scabram. Squamulce 3, obovatu;, apice ciliatae, 

 albae, basi subplicataj ferrugineae et paullo crassiorcs. Stylus brcvis, erattOfl et fere bulbosus, stig- 



Riiju-ccht et Nee*, 



name " Tagaora " is not peculiar to this species, but is used for two other 



matibus longis, filiformibus, pubescentibus. Carmen romVo-triffonum. dabnuu 



The 



species of this <*enus as well as for Guadua tagaora, G. virgala, Arundinaria tcrtlcillaU 



