62 COLONEL MUNRO'S MONOGRAPH OF THE BAMBUSACE^E. 



sublonga. 



4-5 



adpressis, paucifloris, laxifloris; pediceilis spiculis brevioribus ; racbi angulata, glabra. Spicula 

 acuta, 3-5 lin. longa, glumis obsoletis. Flosculi neutri plerumque 3-nervii, mucronati, margine 

 tcuuieiliati, hermaphrodito glabra vix \ breviores* Palea inferior nervis 7 conspicuis, acuta- 

 superior subbrevior, binervia, bicarinata, carinis tenuieiliatis, apice bifida. • 



Tli is is very close indeed to the following species, C. Dombeyana, and is principally to 

 be distinguished by its extremely small, almost invisible glumes, smoother rhachis, and 

 more glabrous leaves, with more strongly marked secondary nerves. Fendler says, 



this grass spreads in many places of the primeval forest so as to exclude all other 



plants, and even deadens shrubs and trees, forming cane-brakes or 'carizals.' " Jameson 



.. 



asserts that the plant is found from the level of the sea up to 12,000 feet elevation 



19. C. Dombeyana, Kunth, Gram. ii. 553, tab. 191 ! Panicula elongata, angusta, ramis 



erecto-patulis, laxifloris, glumis parvis sed compicuis ; foliis angustis, subtus pube- 

 scentibus, "vermlis transversis obsoletis, tamen sat crebris" (fide Euprecht). 

 Enum. 428 ; Suppl. 350 ; Trin. in Act. Petrop. I. c. 616 ; Eupr. I. e. 123, tab. 

 fis>. 22 ; Steud. I. c. 337. 



Nova Granada, Bogota ! Tolima ! Goudot : Ecuador 



<( 



char, alt. 4000-6000 ped. s. m./' Spruce, no. 6093 ! 



ad 



Cuhnus solidus, 9~10-pedalis, arcuatus, ramosissimus, ramis teretibus obsolete scabriusculis, ramuKs 



subpedalibus 



enimpentibus. Folia lanceolata, basi 



cincta, 2-3| 



| Ksfaolum brevcm complanatum attenuata, apice acuminato-subulata, margine incrassato serrato 



ga, sub 3 lin. lata, supra glabra, viridia, subtus tenuiter pubescentia glau- 

 eescentia, nems secuudariis 6-8 subinconspicuis (" venulis transversis hyahnis obsoletis, tamen sat 

 crebris, fide Rupr.). Vagme sulcata, glabriuscul* vel inferiores hirsute, superne same 

 longe ohat* ligula rotnndata, brevi vel sublonga, birsuta vel glabra. Panicula elongata, obbnga 

 vrf bnean-oblonga 3i-5-p„llicaris, interrrupta, ramis erecto-patubs, ramulisque abbreviatis, cum 

 rhach! angulata vel teretiuscula pubescenti-villosis vel scabris. Spicula 2|-3 lin. longa, sessilis vel 

 brev.ter pedicellata eolorata, pubeseenti-hirtella, glumis parvis sed conspicuis, obtusis vel raro acntis, 



margine 



externe pubescentibus. 

 ^-| breviores. 



erma 



bpuberulo 

 aeutata ; 



umosa 



brevmr vel long,or, qnadrinervia, superne bicarinata, apice bideutata et puberula. Sguamul* 

 », du* obhque ovate, tertia minor ovato-elliptica. Stylus cito bifidus in stigmata 2 



The preceding species may prove to be a form of this • h»f Jr. n~.„ ., , a. „* 

 the glumes usually affords 'ood characters lT tb ' i ? ° ^^ 



sometimes a line and up^nT^ in C ^JT ^ 7 ^P" "* 



nltn^tbP. „w* i °' ereas In °' Fen <"<™ they may be said to be almost 



altogether absent 



llumi Loll ♦ ^ ^^ aD8USta ' lamis -ecto-patulis, laxifloris ; 



P ^d turn I i fT ' """I 01 ' 6 2 *■ lmga ' fl ° SCul ° *"*** «^» **»» 

 111 ' B ' lUante ' folUS angUStlS > subtas °™™> venulis transversis nullis. liwla 



elongata 



in Nova Granada, prope Bogota, Lindia, no. 1125 ! (ex h P rh M„ a x» • ^ • t ^ 

 rutins of Q vri,-..;.;„ — Z„ ,... *' _ ° ' lex herb - Mus - Pans.) ; ins. Juan Fernandez 



montnun editiorum. Bertero 



(folia tantum) . 



v. s. 



