54 RUPRECHT Botanique. 



N. Loureiro 1. c. inter alia commeraorat : „CuImus inanis, 40 pedalis et. ultra,. vaginispilosis, 

 asperis, ramis tenuibus, solidis, spinosis, reclinatis, a basi usque ad ■verlicem nascentibus. Folia 

 basi subrotunda, aspera. luternodia eulmi saepe invcniuntnr plena humore aquoso, limpido, qui 

 tamen in India extra Gangem non condensatur in Tabaxir, sicut accidit, 'quamvis raro in Ma- 

 labaria. Habitat ubique culta in Cochinchina et China, Tunkino et Cambodjia, eaque rpassim 

 vallantur horti et pagi." 



C. Dendrocalamus NE. (p. p.) Flosculorum rachis abscondila. Spiculae ovalae, 



valvuJa externa ovata, interna major, margine arcte cingens valvulam exter- 



nam Jlosculi superioris. Species Indiae orient. Australasiae, Gapenses. 



54. B. CAPENsis n. sp. Tab. nost. XII. Gulmi . . . ramulls folii- 

 geris subpedallbuSj infra nodos retrorsum hirsutulis : Aaginls superne striatis, 

 setisque diaphanis dein deciduis obsitis, ligula truncata, brevi (| lln.), glabra; 

 foliisovato-lanceolatls (14 : 70 Hn.), cuspldalis, utrinque g/owcW;, planis, supra 

 glabris, subtus et niargine scabris, basi rotundata ^reve-petiolatis, petiolo 

 \ix lineali;, inferne (non subtus) transversim ruguloso\ ramis spicigeris elon- 

 gatis;, flexuosis; spiculis dense verticillato-glomeratis, ovatis 4 — 6 lin., pal~ 

 lide stramineis, demum Juseescentibus, injlatis, multifloris, valvulis aequi- 

 longls, externa ovata acuta^ interna nervis 4 anastomosantibus percursa et 

 ad carinas hispido-ciliatas inflexa, margine revoluto. superne pubescente. 



Gap. bon. sp. (V. spec. sicc. a cl. Lehmann com.) Petiolo characteristico 

 ct coloratlone jam statlm cognoscenda. 



55. B. VERTiciLLATA Blimie ex Schult. 1830 (an Willd. Poir. ?) 

 Gf. Tab. nost. XII. Guhni internodils floriferis teretibus, glabris, anguste 

 fistulosis ; spicis paucis , erectis, simpllcibus, 6 — 18 ppll., basi squamis oo 

 dense imbricatis, late ovatis (l^ — 4 Hn. longls) tectis ; rachi spicae alterna- 

 tini sulcata; spicidis 3 — 12 in semiverticillos densos congeslis, fuscescenti- 

 siramineis, oblongo-ovatis, parum compressis, 4 — 6 lin., multiflorls, flos- 

 culis arcte imbricatis, valvula externa rotundato -ovata , breviter mucrona- 

 ta, superne nervosa, dorso minute pilosa, margine ciliata. (Diagn. ex Schult.) 



