



COLONEL MUNRO'S MONOGRAPH OF THE BAMBUSACE^. 87 



which genus I should have been inclined to include them had they been dwellers in the 

 East instead of the West. 



Guadua parviflora, Presl in Eeliq. IL&nk.=Arthro8tylidiiini macidatuw, Ilupr. 



XI. Bambusa. 



Schreber, Gen. Plan, no. 607 (1789) ; Roxburgh (1795). Anmdarbor, Caap. Bauhin (16^1); Humph 



Herb. Amboin. iv. 5 (1750). Arundo, sp., Linn, et Lour. Bnmbos, Retz. Ohs. v. 21 (1789) ; Pen 



c 



Syn. (1805). 



ula multifiora vel raro pauciflora, sursum deorsumque imperfecta, vel cylindrica 



minus 



romqin 



umis 



distantibus, quasi pedicellata. Glumce duae ant nunicro indefinite inferiors 

 pterumque gemmipane et breves, superiores paleis inferioribus flosculorum similes et pro ilosculii 

 habendse,, ssepe plurinerves. Palea inferior plurinervis, mutica aut mucronata, plcrunupic glabra^ 

 coriaceo-chartacea ; superior membranacea , angustior, vel sub&quilonga fel longiof, bicarinata 



carmis 



membranacese 



vel apice penicillatis. Stylus in sectione prima brevis, cito 

 secunda ad basin subbulbosus, non tarn profunde 



Squama la typicc 3, plerumque obtUia c-iliati 

 Stamina 6, basi libera, anther is v< I ohtusis \<1 apiemkiii 



.fidm p in 



stigmata 



Stigmata vel brevia plumosa, vel longa et pilosa. Ovarium w\ 



obovatum. anice hirsutum. vel lineari-oblongum 



ga 



arctt 



Gramina arborescentia, vel pauca suffruticosa, interdum scandentia. Species unica (B. vulgaris) cosmopo- 



_. . , ^ , . _ _ii.« • — ,i ion ««/!.. i;« a 



omnes 



Culmus ssepe altissimus, usque ad 120-porialis, v 



ramos 



nullis vel eonspicuis 



rum 



vel panicula.in culmo infernefoliis denudato, interdum 



briatis. Inflorescentia vel " scapus radicalis/' 



ramosissima et quam maxime decomposita, ramis simplicity vel composite spiral, s , sepe laxmscun- 



adjectis interdum ramulis foliiferis quorum folia minora sunt reliquis, spicuhs sepissin.e ■» 



__-.-i. „„^« , - n i-ci mil Ha fhasi fhliatisl terminal!*. 



verticillato-spicatis. 



simplex et interdum 



I have already, at p. 76, mentioned bow very little B.nnbusa differs as a genus tea 



Guadua. I have not included any species in Sa^um in which the filaments arc moni 



It a})]) 



delphous, but have placed them in one or other of the two Mowing genera 



to me that the united filamental tube of these two genera indicates an mtercstag u m 



tion between the true Bamboos and the berry-bearing ones, in winch the pmte«» Uj 



enclosing the real fruit, which I have **^^£2g^ 

 to be an interior staminodium, or series of stamens ot wmcu ^ ^ ,.„„. '„»,.„ „ K 



This envelope, in its youngest state, is very soft and impi 

 served it bear the impression of the vascular bundles of the true filaments 



Conspectus ftpecierum. 

 Sect. I. Stylus brevis, cito fere ad basin 3-fidus, vel (in 



for I have oft 



ad 



stigmatibus pleramque brevibus, plumosis. 



* Lmis. Ovarium obovatum. Spicula */«*«* elongaU, 



Culmus inermis 

 Folia plerumque 



wisversis 



