112 COLONEL MUNRO'S MONOGRAPH OF THE BAMBUSACE^ 



• 



glaberrima 



imae, fovea amcali emar 



vi\ conspicuis, tota lamina 26-30. Vagina glabra striata?, lsevis 



glaberrima, utrinque productae, ligula ssepe 1 poll, et ultra longa, membranacea (interdum majo: 



p;irs superior caduca). 



Wight's herbarium contains but portions of three branches of this splendid Bamboo 

 which, however, have the appearance of belonging to a very lofty tree. 



28. B. bitung, Boom, et Sch. I. c. 1354. " Foliis amplis, ovato-lanceolatis, 2-3J poll. 



latis, 12-18 poll, longis, subtus margineque scaberrimis, petiolo hispido." — Kunth, 

 En. 433 ; Lind. Penny Cyc. (1835), non Hassk. PL Jav. rar. p. 42, teste Miq. PL 

 Ind. Bat. iii. 417. Schizostachgum bitung, Steud. I. c. 332. Bambusacea, no. 12, PL 

 Jungh. p. 393 ; Miq. I. c. 419. 



Hab. in Java ("Bambu Bitung" incolis), ad montem Salak, Blume. s. v. Schultes. 



' Specimen visum summitas, ut videtur, culmi, foliorum vaginis tecta, crassitie digiti, stricta. Folia 

 pergamena, longe acuminata, basi breviter attenuata, supra tactu scabrida, et medio, prsesertim 

 basin versus, scaberrima, subtus glaucescentia, undique, prseter nervum medium, prominentiis 

 minutis et setulis scabra; nervis secundariis tota lamina 28, prominulis, margine denticulis scaber- 

 rima facillimeque vulnerantia, petiolo brevi, crasso, supra planiusculo et spinuloso, scaberrimo, 

 dorso cariuato et dense setoso-hispido, 3 lin. longo. Vagina crasse coriaceae, margine glabra, nervis 

 numerosis validis striatse, basi glabrae, sed tactu scabriusculee, supra medium setis albidis, adpressis, 



iterum 



margine ciliata." — Schultes. 



b 



Ruprecht and Miquel are both of opinion that this species is scarcely to be distin- 

 guished from the succeeding one, B. apus, and that both of them are very closely allied 

 to Schizostachgum Blumei. I think it is very probable that it will prove to be the same 

 as Dendrocalamus flagelltferus described in the following pages. 



29. B. Aprs, Bcem. et Sch. I. e. 1353. Poliis amplis, lanceolatis, lf-2 poll, latis, 10-15 



poll, longis, supra glabris, subtus scabriusculis, petiolo grfaim— Kunth, En. 433, 

 Lind. I. c. Schizostachgum apus, Steud. I. c. 332. 



• * 



Hab. in Java (" Bambu apus " incolis), ad montem Salak, Blume; '< Tring apus," Horsfield. v. s. 



Culmus, sec. Blume, crassitie cruris. "Folia chartacco-pergamena, elongato-lanceolata, longe acuteque 



acuminata, basi paulo tantum in petiolum angustata, supra glabriuscula, prater nervos, margini 

 alteri adjacentes, qui spinulis minutis scaberrimi, subtus glaucescenti-viridia, attactu scabra 

 et in foliis junioribus setulis minimis subhirsuta, nervis secundariis sub 24, minus promi- 

 nentibus quam in B. bitung, venulis transversis crebris, parum, magis tamen quam in B. bitung, 

 conspicuis, margine scaberrima, petiolo 5-6 lin. longo, subtrigono, supra quidquam convexo, dorso 

 cariuato, glabra, basi dilatato et ad margines callosos ibidem transversim rugoso. Vagina ut in 

 B. bitung, tamen margine breviter ciliata vel demum glabra et utrinoue, li^ulam versus, auricula 



parva, rotundata aucta3, ligula intcgerrima vel demum 

 tenuissime ciliata vel demum glabra."— Schultes. 



margine 



This is certainly very close to the preceding; and the only real points of distinction 

 seem to be the narrower leaves and glabrous petiole. There is a specimen marked 





