138 COLON i L MUNRO'S MONOGRAPH OF THE BAMBUSACE.E. 



.", Min. longa, cvliiidrica, plerumque sterilis, rarissime fructifera, 3-flora, flosculis 2 inferioribus steri- 

 libui icutis terminali iminaleaceo, genitalia arete amplectente, rudimento terminali nullo. Squa- 



aula.' nulla. 



Stamina 6, antheris breviter mucronatis. Stijlus longus, gracilis, in stigmata 3, plu- 

 0101 , rcvoliita, sublonga divisus. Ovarium (immaturum) angustum, rostratum. Fructus maturus 



is. nisrer. sub 5 lin. lonsrus, rusrosus, apice depressus, rostri residuo subito apiculatus. 



persistent thus quasi ui\ 



solutum 



tello central) liirsuto. 



The above-described very remarkable fruit distinguishes this from all other Bamboos. 

 It is, I believe, the only species of the genus of which the fruit is known, and helps to 

 show how little is known at present of what the really perfect state of the spiculse of the 

 species of this genus, and several of Melocanna also, may prove to be. 



ScinzosT.vcHTUM apus, Steud. = JBambma opus, Rcem. et Sch 



S. bitung, Steud. = _Z?. bitung, Rcem. et Sch. 



S. capita tl t m, Uupr. = Guadua ? capitata, Munro. 



S. DTJBIE, Rupr. =Bambusa Blwmeana, Sch. 



S. IBATEN, Steud. = Melocanna Zollingeri, Kurz. 



S. Zollixgkki, Steud. =31. Zollingeri, Kurz. 



XVI. Cephalostachyum. 



Muuro, nov. genus. Schizostachyum, Griffith. Icon. PI. Asiat. 151 j Notulse, 64. 

 Spinila; utrinque imperfecta, in glomerulis plerumque terminalibus, subglobosis subsessiles, fert 



dricae, teretiusculae, sub-3-florae, flosculo inferiore unipaleaceo, penultimo tantum fertili, b 



idtimo si 

 subulate- 



isepe minuto. Glumes aristatse, gemmiparae. Palea inferior (fertilis) 

 venosa, striata, saepe venulis transversis anastomosantibus, dorso 



glabra vel hirsuta j superior plerumque longior, apice mutica, vel biaciculat 



fimbriatas 



gus, rostro inclusus. Stigmata 2, plumosa, ramosa 



attenuatus, longe rostratus. 



Grainina fruticosa vel arborescentia in montibus Indise orientalis et Birmah crescentia. Folia lanceolata 



vol ovata, pctiolata, plerumque acumine longo saepe hirsuto terminata. Inflorescentia semper capi- 

 tuliformis, plerumque terminalis, foliis superioribus quasi involucrata, ramulis inferioribus in- 

 terdum verticiUato-spicatis, in C. pergracili glomerulis secus ramos graciles dissitis, moniliformibus . 



Griffith's drawing contains a very good analysis of the structure of this genus ; and the 

 description above given is principally extracted from his notes. In regard to the struc- 

 ture of the inflorescence, he says, « It is not difficult to conceive that the usual form is 

 to have one terminal spicula, which, by the continued development of lateral flower- 

 buds, subsequently assumes the anomalous structure and appearance of ScMzostachyii* 

 described by Kees in Agros. Bras. p. 534." 



Capital* terminaiia vel in ramulis inferioribus 



cierum 



Spi- 



scariosis suffulta. Folia lanceolata 



exserta, spiculis sterilibus numerosissimis bracte 



1. C. capitatum. 



