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



Gramina arborea in insulis Java et Malacca crescentia. Inflorescentia panicula composita vel deeom- 



terminalis, ramulis 



interdum 



stipatis. 



This "onus can only be said to differ essentially from Bambnsa in having the filaments 

 of the stamens united into a delicate monadelphous tube. 



Conspectus Specierum. 



Spicule homomorphse, 3-4 lin. longse. Panicula supra decomposita. Folia 



basi attcnuata, petiolo glabro. Vaginse subglabrse 



Spiculse homomorphse, 4-6 lin, longse. Panicula bis composita. Folia basi rotun- 



data, petiolo hirsute Vaginae hirsutse 



Sniculse dimoruhse. fertiles eomDressse, 12-15 lin. Ionise . 



1, G. verticillata. 



2. G. after. 



3. G. heterostachya. 



1. G. verticillata, Munro. Culmo arboreo, excelso, internodiis apice glabris vel scabris, 

 • raro primnm farina cito decidua tectis, panicula supra decomposita, ramis interdum 

 longissimis, foliis basi attenuatis, plerumque glabris, subtus glaucescentibus, nervis 

 seeundariis vix conspicuis, vaginis plerumque glabris. — G. maxima, Kurz, in herb. 

 Bambusa verticillata, Willd. Spec. ii. 245 (1797) (excl. syn. Lour, et Rumph.), teste 

 hi). Willd. no. 7007 ! ; Rcem. et Sch. I. c. 1346, sub obs. 2 ad spec, e Blume ; Hassk. 

 PL Jav. rar. 40, non Eupr. nee Nees. B. pseudoarundinacea, Steud. I. c. 330. 

 Bambusacea, no. 17, Miq. I. c. 420, forsan Arundarbor maxima, Eumph. I. c. iv. 

 12=1?. excelsa, Miq. I. c. 418. 



Hub. in Java, hb. Willd. 7007 ! herb. Mus. Brit. ! a Thunberg ("Tring ater" incolis), Hor afield \ no. 647 ! 



minor (Kurz) (internodiis hirsutioribus, 







verticillis majorib 

 Kurz. v. s. 



Kitzil"n ("Andon 



i 



Cvli iitm elatus, " 80-100-pedalis, ad verticem usque simplicissimus, ramulis termin alibus paucissimis" 



(si Arundarbor maxima, Rumph., eadem est). (In speciminibus visis) internodiis floralibus 3-6 poll, 

 longis, plerumque subsolidis, glabris, raro in var. Bstriatis et fistulosis, interdum apice farina albida 



cito caduca tectis. Folia plerumque 7-12 poll, longa, 



3-4 



petiolum glabrum, vix longum , margine argute 



cabra 



interdum costam 



primum 



glabrae vel raro (in Zoll. 647) ciliata?, ore nudse, ligula ab- 



truncata, apice ciliata. Panicula supra decomposita, ramis plerumque ramulosis 



erumque glabra, subsolida, ramis vel ramulis ultimis tenuibus, saspe biped 



internodiis 



1-3-pollicaria ver- 



ticillato-glomeratis, " spiculis nunc paucis 2-4, quin hinc inde solitariis, bracteis longissimis apice 

 foliaceis stipatis, nunc plurimis, 12-30, aggregatis." (Steud.). Spicula raro ultra 4 lin. longa, ovata, 

 subacuta, sub-6-flora, flosculis 2-4 perfectis, rhachilla obsoleta, flosculis inferioribus unipaleaceis, 

 brevioribus, margine minute ciliatis, superioribus sensim longioribus, sed angustioribus, longius 

 cihatis. Paka inferior multinervosa, apice breviter mucronato- acuta ; superior subbrevior, angustior, 

 inter carinas pilis sat longis ciliata, 3-4-5-nervia, apice interdum bimucronata. Squamulce varia- 

 biles, lanceolatse, apice fimbriate, 3 plerumque in flosculo supremo fertili tantum visje, in flosculis 



