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COLONEL MUNRO 



MONOGRAPH OF THE BAMBUSACEjE 



6-8, valdc insequalibus, ad nodos fasciculatis, brevioribus (floriferis tantum) 



relimiis subpedalibus , inferae folio 

 lata, basi attenuate/,, apice setace< 



striyoso-hirsuta, punctulis minutis 



4-6 



acliminata, mar 



serrato asperrima, supra seabra, subtus 



Nces), nervis secundariis 8, vix conspicuis 



Vagina inferiores hirsutse, superiores glabre- 



superne longissime fimbriate, infra petiolum membrana conspicua alba terminate 



ramulis 



] igula elongata. Panicula vix decomposita, 2-3-pollicaris, vix (in 



exscrta, foliis superata, rhachi strigoso-hispida, ramis brevibus divaricatis et cito refractis, axillis 



glandulosis, pedicellis brevibus vel brevissimis. Spicula 

 (jlumis fere obsoletis. Flosculi 

 ciliati, hermaphrodite* pubesee 



nervis 



bimucronata 



riervii, ovati, mucronati, carinati, margine 

 breviores. Palea inferior (flosculi fertilis) mucronata, 

 -hispida; superior ssepissime longior, bicarinata et inter 



, Stylus cito bifidus in stigmata 2 divaricata. Ovarium 



(immaturum) subtrigonum. 



This approaches C. anelythra in many respects, but is easily distinguished by its foliage, 

 which is very dissimilar. The nearly obsolete glumes separate it from C. scandens and 

 C. pallida. Nuttall, in his MS. notes on the grasses collected in Wilkes's Expedition, 

 has marked this plant as constituting a " new genus," having apparently overlooked the 



very diminutive glumes. 











'22. C. scandexs, Kunth. Syn. i. 254. Panicula decomposita, rhachi angulata seabra, 



ramis brevibus divaricatis, axillis glandulosis, glumis brevibus obtusis vel acutis, 

 flosculis neutris dlstincte nervosis, foliis lineari-lanceolatis, glabris. — Enum. 428 et 

 Suppl. 350 ; Trim in Act. Petrop. I. c. 616 ; Rupr. I. c. 123, tab. vi. fig. 21 ; Steud. 



I. c. 337. C. Jamesoni, Steud. I. c. 337. Nastus chusque, H. B. K., Nov. Gen. i. 201 

 (1815) ; Roem. et Sch. Syst. vii. 2. 1360. N. chusquea, Rasp. Ann. d. Sc. Nat. v. 442. 

 Bambusa chusque, Poir. Enc. Suppl. v. 494. Mustelia arundinacea, Cav. ined. teste 

 Steud. Nomencl. 361. 



Hub 



Bonpland ; 



« 



in montanis frigidis prope St. Fe de Bogota, monte Quindiu 

 Tambello/' Jameson, [no. 630 ! ; in Nova Granada. Linden. 25: 



» 



Humboldt 



(( 



in 



Holton 



v. s. 



1—12 poll, longis, interdam proliferis bipedalibus 



fasciculatis, glabris, nitidis, valde 



anceo- 



petiolum attenuata, angustato-subulata, mar 



membr 



nervis 



6-8 conspicuis. Vagina glabrae, infra petiolum membrana 



\ 



decomposita 



5, ligula brevi vel plus minus elongata (nulla, teste Kunth) . Panicula 

 plerumque longe exserta, ramulis patentibus cito 



divaricat 



ub 



glandulosis, rhachi angulato-scabra, pedicellis 



obtusis 



subulata 



nervosi 



multinerv 



hermaphrodito parum 



Palea 



subulatis 



labrae 



Stylus cito bifidus. 



embra 



This appears to be 



long, slender, decidedly climbing plant. The branchlets occa- 









