Arundinaria, | GRAMINES. 549 
© Filaments free. 
Inner palea boat-shaped and 2-carinate; arboreous atts 
rarely shrubby : : . Bambusa. 
OO Fila ments connate i ina a tu be. 
Inner palea boat- shaped and 2-carinate; arboreous bam . Gigantochloa. 
X X Caryopsis often rather large he ps perio “cgmatn g 
= vag re full ripene r firml, 
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eous or thick fleshy wall (nica, te inner 
scliled Genta’ in a dried s s closely 
em eeeinet the seed, the ale pontcerdac or rarely 
© Inner palea boat-shaped and 2- he or more or 
ss deplanate Aebeeh a — — 
t Cat aryopsis rather ¢ 
Style collapsing in fruit one more or less_ terete ; 3 inner 
oat-shaped, Sica inate. . Dendrocalamus. 
Style long, stiff and persistent ; car. yopsis somewhat compr ressed ; 
inner palea more or less deplanate or complicate on the back, 
or at least towards the apex 2-carinate Cephalostachyum. 
b ahs 2 re Po cos size of a wood- -apple and irregular 
oe a Agha a por a ree cereueoe ets 
. Pseudostachyum. 
ioe O Inner lee concave or convolut 
+ Car — very large, thick. -fleshy, acuminate- 
ked. 
Inner _— sseititeee ; stamens 6; arboreous, rarely shrubby 
bamboo . Melocanna. 
Bre + Caryopsis father danatl; ‘dry and rapidly cori- 
aceous. 
Inner palea convolute, long; caryopsis somewhat compressed, 
very long-beaked ; erect arboreous bamboos, rarely shrubby ._Schisoctackyum. 
Inner palea concave, ‘sho rt ; EE sii — acumina 
climbing bamboos 0 eaten 
rp hibchy eat 5 a Se 
less terete, with a furrow a the front.—S grasses 
usually not above 15-20 ft. high, with thin stems. Leaves often 
small, more or less tesselated, persistent during flowering or 
a sae 
gans, Kz.—An evergreen slender, tuft rubby bam- 
ie een (?). + ,—}), the stems green or ; blackish, ingore 
Be eas, leaves linear, long-acuminate, contracted at the obtuse 
