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COLONEL MUNRO'S MONOGRAPH OF THE BAMBUSACE^ 



ST. lUMii.is, Hassk. Cat. Hort. Bot. 19, 



N. latifolia, Sprang. /. c. 



N. MACROsim : 1 1 \r a , Raspail, /. c. 



N. qui i. \, RoBm. et Sch. I.e. 1361, 



N. stu ictus, Sm. et llaspail, Z. <?. 



N. TB8SBLLATU8, Nees in EL At'r. Aust. 463, 



IS'. Turn arsii, Rasp., 8pp. I.e. 

 N. TJANKORitKir, Room, et Sch. J. <?., Hassk. I. c. 

 K. v krticillatus, Sm. /. <?. excl. syn. Lour. 

 N. vivii'ara, Rasp. I.e. t. 8. fig. 3. 



nomen tantum. 



Guadua latifolia, Kth. 



Arundinaria macrosperma, Mich 

 Chusquea quila, Kth. 

 Dendrocalamus strictus, Nees. 

 Arundinaria tessellata, Munro. 

 Bambusa thouarsii, Kiinth. 

 Dinochloa tjankorreh, Biise. 

 Bambusa verticillata, Willd. 

 Bambusa Thouarsii, Kth. 



X. Guadu 



lyn. PI. M(\\\ 





,uprecht, /. c. 128. Guada, Euseb 

 JEq. i. 68 (1808) ; Nees in Agros 



Bras. 581. et Linn. \\. 469; Endl. et alior. JVas/i 



; nct*/a sursum deorsumquc imperfecta, cylindracea, multiflora, flosculis nonnullis inferioribus mas 



plurimis bipaleaceis, hermaphroditism termi 



emmiparse 



set ute. [nterdum spirilla dioica. Gluma 2, breves, interdi 



ucrvia, plerumque ovata et brevimucronata, margine fimbriata vel glabra; 



manrinibus incurvis, bicarinata. carinis plerumque late alatis. 



multi 



plur 



latifolia (stigm 



s, bicarinata, carinis plernmque late alatis. Stamina 6. Squamulce 3 (in G. macro- 



itse, sed tertia libera), plerumque obtusse, basi inultinervosse, superne fimbriate. 



eito trifidus vel bifidus, portionibus styli raro iterum divisis ut in G. tagoara et 



4). Stigmata vel brevia vel longa, interdum pulchre plumosa vel pilosa, interdum 



membranacea expansa marginibus argute denticulatis. Caryopsis ovalis vel lineari-oblonga, apice 



hirsute vel puboscens, bulbo styli persistente ssepe aucta. 



Gramma exclusive Americana Tropica, in Brasilia, Nova Granada, Mexico, Venezuela, Quito, Guiana, et 



Peru crescentia, culmis arboreis, ramosis, ramis junioribus ssepissime pungentibus et spinosis. 

 Folia vel lata vel angusta, plana, petiolata, petiolo glabro vel hirsute, venulis transversis plerumque 

 obsoletis vel nullis, vagiuis ore plerumque eiliatis. Inflorescentia variabilis, vel terminalis, panicula 

 nunc 8ubsimplex, paucispiculata, nunc decomposita, ramis divaricatis, vel ssepe in eodem ramo pani- 

 cula terminalis, adjectis infra folia ad nodos ramulis spicigeris aphyllis. Interdum culmi foliiferi 

 e florigc ris discreti sunt. 



This genus is kept up by most authors ; hut I am unable, in the absence of perfect fruit, 

 to point out any good distinction, except a well-marked one in geographical distribution, 

 between it and true Bambusa. Excepting a doubtful cosmopolitan species, Bambusa 

 vulgaris, it may be said that all true Bambusas are confined to the East, and all true 

 (ruaduas to the West. The upper palea in Guadua has the keels much more distinctly 

 and broadly winged than in any Bambusa. iluprecht distinguishes Guaduce as having 



" Flosculi nou exacte distichi ; " but in G. latifolia and many others the flowers are 

 remarkably distichous. Nees, in Agrost. Bras. p. 532, makes Guadua a section of Barn- 



9 This 

 would of course include most of the Indian Bamboos. Roemer et Sclmltes define the 



bfisa, applying to it the definition of " Spiculae teretiuscuhe, stylus 2-3-partitus. 



section Guaduce as having " stylus brevis tripartitus, floribus inferioribus masculis vel 

 neutris;" and this, again, would include Bambusa tulda and many other species of Bam- 



(1822), separates Guadua from 



husa. Kunth, in his ' Notice sur 



le genre Bambusa ' 



