100 COLONEL MUNRO'S MONOGRAPH OF THE BAMBUSACE^. 



in his journey from Hookoom Valley to Ava, associated with numerous tropical plants on 

 the banks of the river Mogoung, in the extreme north of Burmah. 



14. B. balcooa, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 25 (1814); El. Ind. ii. 196, icon. 1402 ! Culmo excelso, 



fistuloso, panicula " scapiformi, radicali, spicis verticillatis " (Roxb.), ramis inter- 

 dum elomjatis, internodiis ramorum uno latere sulcatis et hirsutis, spiculis glome- 

 ratis, ovatis, mollibus, 6-8-floris, flosculis 4-6 hermaphroditis, palea inferiore margine 

 fimbriata, superiore et carinis et margine ciliata, stylo hirsuto, ad vel paulo infra 

 medium 3-fido ; foliis ssepe pedalibus, vaginis hirsutis. — Cat. of B. G. Calc. 79. B. ca- 

 pensis, Rupr. I. c. 144, t. xii. f. 54 ; Steud. I. c. 330. B. vulgaris ? Nees Fl. Afr. 

 Aust. 462, non alior. B. vasaria, herb. Hamilton, no. 883, in Wall. Cat. 5025 ! an 

 etiam Arundarbor vasaria, Rumph. Amb. iv. 8. Arundo bambos, herb. Smith ! e 

 Thouin, no. 230 ! non Linn. 



Hab 



Hamilton : Purnea 



Me 



("Betwah"), Hook 



Masters ! : cult. C. B. S. Ecklon, Mund 



Burchell ! ; Paris, Thouin ; in hb. Smith ! Crystal Palace ! 

 Culmm arboreus, excelsus, 50-70-pedalis, cavus, inermis. Folia 



v. s. 



basi 



hispida et interdum 



versus longe ciliata, utriuque viridia vel raro glaucescentia, 6-12 poll, longa, 1-2 poll, lata, supra 

 tactu scabra, subtus pilis brevibus, demum deciduis hirsuta, nervis secunclariis utroque latere 7-11, 

 venulis transversis'tlistantibus, plus minus conspicuis. Folia inflorescentiam intrantia multo minora 

 sunt. Vagina striata?, setis diaphanis, dein deciduis hirsutae, apice truncate, ore plerumque nudse 

 vel pilis paucis ciliatae, ligula producta, obtusa, ciliata vel glabra. Jnflorescentia " scapus radicalis, 

 spicis verticillatis, vcrticillis interdum proliferis " (teste Roxburgh) ; interdum panicula composita, 

 internodiis subteretibus, apice hirsutiusculis, ramis ad nodos paucis, 2-3, simplicibus vel raro com- 

 positis, 6-18 poll, longis, internodiis uno latere sulcatis et hirsutis, spiculis plerumque subdense 

 glomeratis in verticillos, vel approximatos, vel 1-24 noil, a seiosis invicem remotos : interdum (e.g. in 



inferioribus 



ramulos 



emittentibus. (Hsec forma 



4-6 



4-6 hermaphroditi 

 margine superi 



rhachilla abscondita. Palea inferior nervosa, membranacea, ovata, mucronata, 

 fimbriata, (laevis, Roxburgh), pallidc straminea vel demum fnscescens, inflata; superior vix brevior 

 sed angustior, inter carinas nervis 4 anastomosantihus percursa, carinis et margine hispido-ciliata. 

 Squamulai 3, variabiles, plerumque ovales, membranaceae, longe ciliata?, insequales, dme obtusissima?, 

 tertia longior, sublanceolata. Anthera seta cito caduca apiculata?. Stylus hirsutus, ad vel paulo 



medium 



(immaturum) 



attenuatum 



In numerous respects, especially in the form of the spicula, this species very closely 

 approaches B. Beecheyaua and B. Oldhami ; but the much thicker and more deeply trifid 

 styles have induced me to place it in the first section of the genus. Roxburgh, whose 

 drawing represents apparently a young undeveloped flowering culm, states that he never 

 saw this species but once in flower : and flowering specimens must still be very rare ; for 

 I have never seen anything like a perfect one ; and most of those which I have quoted 



