i8o Ka Hana Kapa. 



This fine tree, beautiful as a young shrub, has an excellent timber-wood iised 

 often by the natives for kita kiiku or kapa anvils; the native name is Kmvau. The 

 illustration, Fig. 105, is of the small-leaved variet}- ou Oahu, where it is a small shrub 

 rather than a tree. The odor of the fresh flowers is strongly honej'-like. 



Bambusa Schreb. Gen., PI. 236. — Spiculfe a-c/o-florse, secus ramos paniculas 

 dissite glomeratse, rhachilla sub floribus articulata, floribus hermaphroditis v. superi- 

 ore masculo, inferioribus interdum sterilibus. Glumas rigide membranaceae v. sub- 

 coriacese, muticse v. breviter mucrouato-acuminatse, tenuiter multinerves, inferiores 

 3-4 vacuae ab extima parva in superiorem florentibus subsimilem gradatim auctae; 

 florentes longiores, summa sgepius angusta vacua; palea glumae subsequalis, saepe 

 angusta, carinis 2 acutis ciliatis valde prominentibus vix tamen vere alatis. Lodi- 

 culae 3. Stamina 6, filamentis liberis. Ovarium apice hirsutum; stj'lus elongatus, 

 indivisus v. varie 2-3-fidus, stigmatibus breviter phimosis. Caryopsis oblonga, facie 

 plana v. leviter sulcata, gluma paleaque inclusa, libera, pericarpio tenui semini 

 adhaerente, humectato tamen facile solubili. — Gramina arborescentia v. rarius suffruti- 

 cosa V. scandentia, interdum spinifera, foliis breviter petiolatis cum vagina articiilatis 

 planis venulis transversis obscuris v. conspicxiis. Panicula in caule inferne foliis 

 deuudato, interdum quam maxime decomposita, rarius simplex. Spiculae saepius 

 minores, secus ramos elongates saepissime fasciculatae semi-verticillatae sessilesque. 

 (H. & B.) 



B. vulgaris Schrad. & Wendl. — Unarmed, 20-40 ft. high, the liranches seal}- 

 below, striate. Leaves stipitate, oblong-lanceolate, 6-12 in. long and 'j-2 in. wide, 

 acute, rounded at base, scabrous, ciliate at the mouth of the abruptlv terminating 

 sheath. Spikelets 6-10 lines long, stramineous, 6-8-flowered, with 3-4 fertile florets, 

 the upper ones tabescent ; the glumes of the fertile florets ovate-lanceolate with subu- 

 late points, 15-19 nerved, abrnpth* passing into the shorter sterile ones. StA-le long, 

 pubescent, simple or 2-3 cleft. Anthers linear, purplish. 



On all i.slands wild in low vallej-s, and var3'ing considerabh- in diameter of 

 stem and length of joints. Native name Olic. The Hawaiians beside the use for 

 printing tj-pe already described, used the larger sizes for outriggers to the canoes, 

 the smaller for fishing poles, nose flutes, etc., and the intermediate ones for other 

 musical instruments or noise-makers, although they had not the pandean pipes so 

 common in the Papuan region on the west. I do not believe this grass was introduced 

 by foreigners; many other forms have been brought here in the last thirty years. 

 All seem to grow well, and the illustration shows a fine clump of the Hawaiian form 

 growing near the shore at Hilo, Hawaii. Fig. 106. 



