H) COLONEL MUNRO'S MONOGRAPH OF THE BAMBUSACE 



Bo^or. fide Miq. I. c. (var. foliis supremis valde deminutis ramulisque pluribus efoli 



atis). Jsciirochloajloribunda, Base, in PL Jungh. 390; Miq. PI. Ind. Bat. iii. 422 

 Arundinaria glaucescens, P. de B. Agros. 144, et supra,, p. 22, cum syn. omnibus 

 Ludit glumis ct etiain paleis inferioribus flosculorum inferiorum in folia conversis 

 stylo 2^4-fido, staminibus 3, vel etiam 6, obsoletis, filamentis basi squamuheformibus 



in China (" Keu-fa" incolis), Roxburgh ; in Japonia, Buerger ; ins. Niphon in sylvis montanis prop< 

 Susokatogi, Pierrot. Cult, in hortis Ind. or. Dacca et Calcutta, Hamilton ! Roxburgh, Hooker 



Bamboo 



Tinvaites ! ; in liort. J a 1 

 Take," Jap.) v. v. et s. 



us suffruticosus, inermis 



Kurz ! 



urimis. ("Tsiutsik" vel "Tsiuts 



spathis (in culmis junioribus) 



14 doII. londs. daberrimis, striatis, intus nitidis, apiculo lanceolato basi biaunculato sem 



4-8 semiverticil 



lati, intcrnodiis superne glabris vel scabriusculis vel pruinoso-glaucis. Folia plerumque parva, 

 lanccolata, 1-2| poll, longa, 2-5 lin. lata, interdum majora, 3-5 poll, longa, apice acutissima, basi 



issimis 



sccMitia vel deraum glabrescentia, nervis secundariis subconspicuis, utroque latere 3-5. Vagina 

 glabra, striata?, ore biappendiculatae, fimbriate vel demum nudoe. Inflorescentia nunc panicula de- 



b 



nunc spicula solitaria paucseve, ramulis dense foliiferis terrainales ; raro (in spec, e Ceylon) 

 panicula composita (an culmo terminalis ?), subaphylla, internodiis 4-6 poll, longis, spiculis in glo- 

 merulis ner raraos breves, simnlices vel compositos, semiverticillatos dissite sparsis, paucis, insequa- 



libus. Spicula priraum cylindrica, demum 



gemmip 



solitariis, apice in laminam foliaceam expansis, flosculis 1-2 inferioribus et 2-3 superioribus incom- 

 pletis (vel masculis vel femineis), intermediis 3-6 hermaphroditis. Palea inferior 14-18-nervis, vix 

 acuta, glaberrima, superiorem multinervosam, carinis glabram, apice tantum subhirsutam involvens 

 et superans. Squamula typice 3, lanceolatse, elongatae, basi interdum callosse et inconspicue nervosa. 

 Stamina typice 6, antherarum connectivis nunc obtusis nunc seta apiculatis. Stylus cito 3-fidus, 

 stigmatibus pulchre plumosis. Ovarium stipitatum, obovatum, superne hirsutum. 



In statu luso e Ceylon, a Thwaites mihi misso, stamina 1-3 tantum perfecta, tria plus minus obsoleta; hsec 



nunc squamulanim formam arrogant, nunc ad rudimenta brevissima, squamulis normalibus adhse- 

 rentia, redacta. Stylus saepe abnormalis, nunc indivisus, nunc bifidus, cruribus 1-2 iterum divisis, 

 et hinc stigmatibus 4, nunc trifidus. In flosculis nonnullis 2-3 ovaria adsunt. 



Whilst these pages were passing through the press, I received some flowering spe- 

 cimens of this plant from Mr. Thwaites, which have enabled me to ascertain that the 

 opinions which I have long entertained, as stated above at p. 22, regarding the identity of 

 B. nana and Arundinaria glaucescens, are correct. Some of Mr. Thwaites's specimens are 

 evidently in the same condition as those seen and figured by Euprecht in fig. 3. tab. i. of his 

 memoir on Bambusge, the three abortive stamens apparently being figured as 3 ovaries. 

 The rudiments of these stamens are certainly sometimes extremely minute, although occa- 

 sionally they are nearly half as long as, and very similar to, the squamulje. In all the 

 flowers which I have examined, I have been able, after careful maceration, to discover 

 the vascular bundles of the filaments. Thwaites says, in a note attached to the specimen, 



