IOC, COLON L MUNRO'S MONOGRAPH OF THE BAMBUSACE^ 



mantes Neil-hcrries, Schmid. ; var. "spiculis, in glomerulis, sequo spatio distantibus spurie verti- 

 oOlitb/ Negapatam, no. 103 ! =207 ! = 1802 ! Wight, v. s. 



Culmns (quoad altitudinem milii ignotus) forsan suffruticosus, fistulosus, non solidus, glauco-viridis, inter- 



nodiifl ramorum srcpissimc apice hirsutism inferioribus (prcecipue in culrais floriferis) tota longitudine 



hirsutis et Bjcpc uno latere sulcatis. Folia lineari-Ianceolata, 2-3^ poll, longa, 4-5 lin. lata, apice 

 acuta, hi\s\ subtranca&a vel rotmulata, atteimata in petiolum utrinque hirsutum, margine brevissime 

 -irate, supra pilis sublongis, basi subbulbosis, sparsis, subtus pilis brevissimis liirsutiuscula, nervis 

 secundariis utroque latere 5. Vagince superne hirsute, discolores, apice ciliis albis teimibus fim- 

 briate. Panicula decomposita, intemodiis inferioribus 4-5 poll, longis, ssepissime hirsutis, angulatis, 

 Ktriatis, uno latere* interdum profunde sulcatis, ramis paucis, simplicibus vel compositis, valde insequa- 

 libdSj G-40-pollicaribus, ad nodos semiverticillatis, spiculis per ramos ramulosque irregulariter pani- 

 culato-aggloniofffttw, nonnullis distincte pedicellatis et solitariis, approximatis, erectis. Interdum, 

 panicula nondum evoluta {IVight, 1802), spiculis circa nodos ramorum ramulorumque dense glome- 

 ratis, <rlomerulis subsequidistantibus. Spicula pallida, 7-9 lin. longa, 7-9-flora, flosculis 3-5 per- 

 fects, reliquis incompletis, glumis vel bracteis .2 vel pluribus, gemmam spiculse imperfectae foventibus, 

 interdum, in spiculis solitariis, longe distantibus. Palea inferior basi laevis, superne leviter nervosa, 

 margine nunc glabra nunc ciliata; superior, in flosculis perfectis, carinis longe ciliata, ultra inferi- 

 orem plus minus prominens. Sqimmuta fimbriate, nervosa?, insequales, duse obtusag, tertia sublongior, 

 lanceoiata. Stamina 3 connectivo obtuso vel breviter appendieulato. Stylus basi conico-bulbosus, 

 fere ad bnlbmn plcrumque 3-fidus, interdum 2-fidus. Caryopsis lineari-oblonga, styli bulbo hirsute 



persiatente conico coronata. 



I have been a little doubtful of the propriety of retaining the specific name of " orien- 

 tal**" for this plant, as there is a specimen in herb. Wight., no. 206 b (1800), which 



marked by Nees himself " Bambusa orientate, milii," and is certainly not the plant 

 described above, but, I believe, B. arundinacea, Retz. However, the remainder of Wight, 

 1800, and also his 1802, are certainly the plant described and figured as B. orient alls by 

 Rupreeht, and very probably that described by Nees also; and there may, therefore, 

 have been some mistake in the labelling. In the structure of the spicula this species 

 approaches very closely to B. arundinacea ; but after an examination of the numerous 

 excellent specimens collected by Wight in Western India at Quilon in 1835, I have no 

 doubt that the species is a good one. I should imagine that the plant is of much dwarfer 

 habit than any other species of the section, and is probably only about 8-9 feet high. The 

 panicle is fistulous and soft, and almost herbaceous in appearance, and the lower portion 

 is angled and unusually hirsute. I do not perceive any traces of thorns, and I observe 

 that in the "Linmea," p. 472, Nees does not describe the culm as spinous. Rupreeht, 

 however, says the branches are shortly spinous. This may possibly, from its probable 

 height, be B. arundo of Dalzell and Gibson in the 'Mora of W. India,' described at 

 p. 299 as having "culms 8-9 feet high, and spicula 6-8-flowered," "Chiwaree" of 

 Mahableshwar. They state that the culms of this species are thorny, and that walking- 

 sticks are made of them. 



20. B. vulgaris, Wendl. Collect, PI. ii. 26, t. xlvii. mala (1810). Culmo arboreo, fa- 



ermi, panicula perfects supra decomposita, ramis striate vel teretibm et nitidis, ad 

 nodos spiculas oblongas, compressas, solitarias vel paucas vel plurimas gerentibus ; 



palea inferiore basi subattcnuata, superne nervosa et margine fimbriata, 



supe 



