COLONEL MUNRO'S MONOGRAPH OF THE BAMBUSAC1LE. HI 



to the genus Cephalostachyum ; but the specimen is from an immature stale of the plant ; 

 and I did not consider myself justified in taking more than our BDicula for examination 



The inflorescence is so thoroughly concealed by the uppermost leares, that no casual 



observer would perceive that the plant was in flower. 



5. C. pergeacile, Munro. Culmo arboreo, ramulis floriferis gracillimia, tenuissimis, 



glomerulis spicularum, per intervalla 1-2 poll, distantibus, secus ramus clii i is, Hon 

 hermaphrodito hirsuto, palea superiore apice biaciculata, rudimento terminal i 

 longo. 



Hob. in Ind. or. Tenasserim, Rangoon! M ( Clelland ; Pegu ("Tinwa," "AYablo" Karens), no. 11, Hraruli*. 



V. s. 



" Culmi ereeti, 40-pedales, dense csespitosi, internodiis 18 poll, longis, ciranntVivntia maxima 10-polli- 

 cari, spathis brcvibus, 6 poll, longis, extus pilis atris tectis ; marginc fimbriate, apiculo triangulari. 



ramis 



[Brandts). Folia 



subtumidum et longitudmaliter ragosum, margine aspcra, utrinquc glabra (nisi pili pan 



b 



Lsin versus sparsi), nervis secundariis utroque latere 9. Vagina glabra 4 , ore « liii 

 paucis caducis fimbriate ligula brevissima. Inflorescentia, ut videtur, pameuk ampla, rami* limpli- 

 cibus ; 1-18 poll, longis, ad nodos numerosis, omnibus tenuissimis, filiformibus, glomeruli* pkrmnqur 

 distantes ferentibus. Fasciculi spicularum bis terve divisi, in verticillis vel irlomcrulis deal aggre- 

 gate Gluma inferiores gemmiparffe ; superior oblonga, nervosa, margine longe fimbriata, flotcnl 



E9 AA ^-zi«i i*£r*JL*m b;^ninoDon G Twlpift lnrsntis. iuferiorc acuta, nervosa, hir- 



cunrv 





r 



ed 



ipso s^epe obtuse multinervosse, basi concavaj, margine tenuiter fimbriate, pewiatent c s fruch 

 maturo adhaerentes. Stamina 6, antheris obtusis. Stylus longus, basi rostro ovarii incIiMW, apio 

 in stigmata 3, revoluta divisus. Fructus maturus obloi 

 glabro 3-lineali, subcompresso, subito mucronatus. 



Brandis's herbarium contains numerous excellent specimens of this beautiful Bamboo. 

 the branches of which are quite as slender as ordinary packing-thread, and y* Deal 

 numerous verticils, often an inch in diameter, with considerable hit rvals between tfcem. 

 The fascicles are more compound in this than in any of the other species of h, genu 

 a *<l often as much as in some species of Melocanna and Schhostachjum. ine 

 spiculae are not numerous. 



XVII. PSEUDOSTACHYUM. 



Niuko, nov. gen. Tab. IV. } flora 



¥*h fertilis oblonga, sursum deorsumque imperfecta, intra glumas petMato, t mt 



perfect 



(;inma omn< 



""" •*■ -paieaceo, sterm, secunuo et lmexuum iw "» t — -- . ., t« t0 /fi fr> o). (i/mtia omnes 

 leaceo, cum terminali (tabescente, ineompleto) cito caducis, pedice o n J n J )ram ;e . infer r 



gemmiparae, vel pcdicellos spicularum sterilium foventes. Fate* g an , mst ; or , l, K arinata, 



(fertilis) 5-nervis, marine fimbriata (fig. 2) ; superior plerumque ^^ , )tu ^ ^ 



ciliatis (figg. 2, 4). Sgw»;«te 3, vel *, ^^ ^ ^ ^ a]nrulo ,. onioo 



fimbrii 



tantum 



maturo 



tG ^iinatis (fig. 3). Stylus rostro inclusus, longus (fig. 7), apice n 



