DESCRIPTION OF SPECIES 17 



long and 2.5 to 5 centimeters in diameter. The culms are thin- 

 walled and 4 to 6 meters in height. A cotype specimen is shown 

 in Plate XX. 



Genus SCH IZOSTACHYUM Nees 

 1. Climbing*. 



2. Flowers in long panicles, usually from flower-bearing culms or 

 auxiliary on leafy ones. 



3. Leaves usually broad, rounded at the base, mouth of leaf 

 sheaths and ligules long-bristly-ciliate. 



4. Spikelets glabrous 5. diffusum. 



4. Spikelets densely pubescent S. fenixii. 



3. Leaves usually narrow attenuate at the base, mouth of leaf 

 sheaths and ligules not or only slightly bristly. 

 4. Spikelets very sharply pointed; apicules of anthers 



shortly hirsute S. dielsianum. 



4. Spikelets acute only; apicules of anthers very long bristly. 



S. palawanense. 

 2. Flowers in short, terminal spikes up to 10 centimeters long; leaves 



very narrow S. textorium. 



1. Erect. 



2. Spikelets sharply pointed, not in rounded capitula. 



S. long ispiculatum. 

 2. Spikelets sharply pointed, usually in rounded capitula; no lodicules. 

 3. Spikelets glabrous outside. 



4. Internodes about a meter or more in length or longer. 



*S. lima. 



4. Internodes shorter S. brachycladum. 



3. Spikelets more or less pubescent outside; anthers obtuse. 



4. Spikelets densely white-hairy, both on the empty and 

 on the flowering glumes ; leaves 1 centimeter broad. 



S. hirtiflorum. 

 4. Spikelets shortly white-hairy only on the flowering glume; 



leaves over 1.5 centimeters broad S. lumampao. 



2. Spikelets hardly sharp-pointed, obtuse or acute, usually in long 

 panicles; lodicules usually present S. luzonicum. 



The genus Schizostachyum is extensively developed in the Phil- 

 ippines. Among the bamboos it has by far the largest number 

 of species, and presents several of the most common and widely 

 distributed bamboos in the Archipelago. All of the species are 

 indigenous, and none of them are cultivated. The genus contains 

 both erect, thin-walled species, and scandent thick-walled ones, 

 several of which are used for special purposes. None of the 

 species are of large size. Most of them are sylvan or subsylvan 

 and usually do not occur in the open settled areas. Several 

 of them are gregarious and in some provinces occupy rather 

 large areas of land to the practical exclusion of other vegetation. 



SCHIZOSTACHYUM BRACHYCLADUM Kurz. 



Common names: boho (Isinai and Mindanao) ; bagdkai (Leyte) ; bagdkan 

 (Palawan) . 



