102 COLONEL MUNRO'S MONOGRAPH OF THE BAMBUSACE.E. 



tandem couspicme articulis hirsute, flosculis imbricatis, palea inferiore mucronato- 

 acuta, stylo profunde 3-fido, caryopsi subtricornuta ; foliis 3-6 poll, longis, utrinque 

 labris.— -Kutith, Enum. 431. B. spinosa, Blume in litt. ad Nees ab Esenbeck, in 

 Bot. Zeit. 1825, p. 580, non Boxb. B. agrestis? Poir. Enc. viii. 704 (1808) ; Sch. I. c. 

 134 1 ; Bupr. I c. 149 ; Kuntb, I. c. 432 ; Steud. 1. c. 330. Arundo agrestis ? Lour. 

 Fl. Coch. i. 72 ; forsan Arundarbor spinosa, s. Bulu Baduri, Teba Teba, Bumph. 

 Amb. iv. 14, t. 3. B. teba, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. iii. 418. Schizostachyum durie, Bupr. 

 I. c. 13G ; Steud. /. c. 332, sed vix Miq. I. c. 425. Ischurochloa spinosa ? Biise in PL 

 Jungh. 390, Miq. I. c. 422 (syn. plur. exc.), Walp. Ann. vii. 1045. 



Hub. in Java, Rumph., Junghuhn, ("Tring ori/' "Tring ampel" et "Giping" incolis) no. 313 ! Horsfield, 

 ("HaucrTjutjuk" vel " Bambu Durie") Blume; ins. Soembawa, no. 3417, Zollinger (teste Miquel); 

 Amboiua? Coram? Manipa? Rumph.; Cochin China ? Loureiro. Vidi spec. plur. in herb. Horsfield. 



CvIinhs erectus, elongatus, spinosus, u spinis ternis recurvis, crassitie 1-2 poll., haud scandens/' interno- 



diis superioribus cinerascenti-flavicantibus, glabris, teretibus y inconspicue striatis, l|-2-4 poll, longis. 

 Kami ramulosi, ad nodos pauci, basi incrassati, geniculate ramulis numerosis, gracilibus, aliquid 

 deflexis, intcrnodiis ramulorum saepe apice scabris. Folia tenuia, lineari-lanceolata, cuspidata, basi 

 interdum rotuudata, plerumque abrupte attenuata in petiolum glabrum, 3-6 poll, longa, vel raro 

 minora 9-30 lin. longa, 3-7-9 lin. lata, margine serrata vel etiam fimbriata, utrinque glabra, subtus 

 glaucesccntia, \ laminae nitida, nervis secundariis utroque latere 5-7. Vagina striates, margine uno 

 eiliatse, in siccis pallide fuscescentes, primum pilis sparsis, adpressis hirsutae, demum glabriusculae, 

 ore utrinque ciliis paucis (ssepe cito decidnis) fimbriatae, ad apicem infra petiolum fovea parva sub 

 lente ciliolata. ligula truncata, brcvi, pilis sublongis, demum deciduis ciliata. Panicula (lateralis, 

 t stibus Blume et Schultes), ut videtur, ampla, gracillima, ramosa, apice nutans et simpliciter verticil- 

 lato-spicata (pars superior 3-pedalis adest) , internodiis inferioribus 3-4| poll, longis, ramis plerumque 

 solitariis, alternis, raro (in spec, uno) ternis, inferioribus 15 poll., sequentibus 10-8-7 poll, longis, 

 gracilibus, suberectis, divaricatis, supremis interdum 2-2| poll, longis, erectis, densifloris, fere spi- 

 'catis, verticillis approximatissimis, imbricatis. Spicule per ramos, ad intervalla regulariter et gra- 

 datim e basi decrescentia, glomerato-verticillatse, patulae, plurimae breves, steriles, subulatae, paucse 

 fcrtiles, subpollicares. Spicida fertilis subcompressa, pallida, rhachillse tandem conspicuse articulis 



apice subulato-acuminata ; superior vix brevior, carinis et ssepe margine basin versus ciliata. Squa- 

 mula 3, obovatae, longissimc ciliatae, subaequales, interdum basi callosae et nervosae. Anthera obtusse. 

 Stylus brevis, cito in stigmata 3, pulcherrime plumosa, fere ad basin divisus. Ovarium subtriquetrum, 

 apice, vix hirsuto, residuis stylorum tricornutum. 



Having seen several excellent specimens of this plant in Horsfield's Herbarium, I have 

 been able to add some particulars to the description of the species given by Schultes, who 

 states that all the spiculae he saw were sterile. I can see nothing to justify the panicle 

 being called lateral; on the contrary, it appears to me to be decidedly terminal and un- 

 usually elegant and slender. Blume states that this plant is spinous ; and there are some 

 traces of spines in the specimens which I have seen ; but there is nothing to indicate that it 

 is as spinous as B. agrestis of Poir. and Arundarbor spinosa of Rumph. are described to be. 

 B. agrestis is also described by Loureiro as having a bifid, not trifid style. I have therefore 

 included these two species as probable synonyms only. Had I been fully persuaded of 

 their identity, the earlier name of B. agrestis, Poir., ought to have been adopted for the 





1| tin. longis, hirsutis, 8-10-flora, flosculis 3-5 intermediis perfectis, 1-2 infimis et 2-3 supremis | 



bipaleaceis sed sterilibus. Palea inferior (fertilis) 4 lin. longa, inferne lsevis, superne costato-nervosa, 













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