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75 (1815). 

 GraminecB Sect. Bractciflorce Link, Handb. I p. 95 (1829). 

 Graminece Bambusece Kunth apud Lindley, Iutrod. Bot. p. 304 

 (1830) ; Nat. Syst. Bot. p. 378 (1836)-Ruprecht in Act. Acad. 

 Cass. Petrop. ser. VI, Tome V pt. 2 p. 1 (1839)-Enducher, 

 Ench. Bot. p. 59 (1841)-Koch, Dendrol. II pt. 2, p. 353 (1873)- 

 Bentham & Hooker. Geu. PI. Ill p. 1076 (1883)-Hackel in 

 Engler & Prantl, Nat, Pflanzenfam. n Abt. 2, p. 89 (1SS7)- 

 Gamble in Ann. Roy. Bot. Gard. Culcutta VII p. 1 (1896). 

 Graminece Trib. Festucacece Subtrib. II. Bamliusecs Meissner, PI. 



A^asc. Gen. I p. 425 (1836) ; H p. 325 (1843). 

 Graminece Subtrib. Bambusaccaz Endlicher, Gen. PL p. 102(1836)- 



Miquel, Fl. Ned. Ind. Ill pt, 3 p. 360 (1857). 

 GraminecB Trib. Bambusacece Steudel, Syn. PI. Glum. I p. 329 

 (1S55)-Doell in Martius, Fl. Brasil. II pt, 3. p. 161 (1880). 

 Rbizoraa fasciculatnm vel longe repens. Culmi monopodiales vel sjtu- 

 podiales, indivisi vel rarnosi, fistulosi vel solidi; nodi elevati vel baud ele- 

 vati, radicantes vel non radicantes, armati vel inarmati ; internodia brevia 

 vel longissima, viridia vel farinosa, lutea vel striata, punctata vel rnaculata 

 vel nigricantia, glabra — ciliata — velutina — bispida — aculeata. Folia cul- 

 morurn squarnoso-vaginantia, decidua vel persistentia, vel dorso punctato- 

 persistentia ita ex nodo suspensa, glabra — villosa — bispida, apice appen- 

 diculata vel haud appendiculata, saepe setis oralibus instructa. Turiones 

 vernales vel aestivales, rarius auctumno-hiemales. Gemmas in quoqiie 

 nodo 1-7. Ramuli e basi vel supra nonnulos nodos ramorurn evoluti. 

 Pbyllotaxis 1/2. Folia petiolata cum vel sine setis oralibus ; setre orales 

 albas vel fusca? vel nigra? vel purpureas glabra? vel bispidulae, flexuoso- 

 parallelas vel rigido-patentes ; lamina ovata, elliptica, oblonga, lanceolata, 

 lineari-lanceolata, subulata, integra vel serrulata, supra glabra vel pilosa 

 vel erecto-hirsuta, infra glabra, ciliata, pubescentia vel velutina ; nerves 

 longitudine parallela? vel tessellata?. Inflorescentia in apice ramuli ter- 

 minals vel lateralis terminalis, vel e basi culmorum vel ex rbizomata 

 evoluta, paniculata vel spicata vel racemosa vel glomerata, disticba vel 

 secunda efoliosa vel foliosa ; pedunculi ex bractea spatbacea exerti vel in- 



