626 T n I a I u s 



BAIMBUSA CAPITATA. 



Culmi (15 — 20-pedari,s) ramos habemus ullrapedalcs , crassilie pennae cor- 

 vinae, teieles, (arctos, glahros, strictissimos, simplices, usque ad capitulum florum 

 infimum vaginis lectos et foliosos, apice floiiferos. 



J'aginae altéra alterani vaginantes, arctae, glabrae, apice utrinque auricula 

 brevi auctae plerumque emitlente clnulos perbreves; inferiores demum aphyllae. 

 LigiiJa chartacea, brevissima, truncala. 



Fulia subses-silia, cum vagina arliculata, palula, numerosa, approximata, stricla 

 et fuma, sublanceolato-Iinearla, acuminala, infernc carinata, multislriata, undique 

 glabra, polllces 6 — 10 loiiga, lineas 4 — 1 lata, capitula florum satis longe su- 

 perantia (superiora brcviora et magis lanceolala), infra glaucescenlia, supra gilvo- 

 viridia, siccitate sacpc bssa. 



Flores iii capiuilis s. glomeribus magniludine nacis Juglandis ad axin e rnmi 

 extremilale formatiiin 1 — 3, pi. min. distanllbus, sessilibus, densis, nunc no- 

 dum circumcirca ambientibus nunc lateralibus lanlum. 



Spiculae substcUalim divergentes, basi slipatae sqiiainis allquot inaeqnalibus, 

 membranaceis, multinervibus (itifima axi adpressa bico'ilala), imbricatis, (iiilcr 

 quas spicula uiia alterave accessoria, mullo minor et angnslior pullulare solel), 

 quarum supeiiorcs 2 pro spicula singula Ghiwcinim loco suiit. 



Flosculi in singula spicula (praeter rudimcnlum terminale) 3, ad rliacbcos 

 continuae arliculos brcvissimos sensinique longlores distiche imbricalo-altcrni, sub- 

 lineari- et cyrindraceo-convolnli, lineas 5 — 6 loiigi, angusli, chartaiei, obtu- 

 slusculi, glabri, patuli, onines bermaphrodili, bivalves. Valvula inicrior concava, 

 13-nervis (nervo niedio su[)ernc paulo forliori et subinde in mucronubim cxeunlc), 

 obvolvens v.ilvulam superiorem aequilongam vel panio longiorcm, deprrssain, dorso 

 canaliculatam , antice tondiiplicatani marginibus conliguis, dissile bicoslatam et 



