14 MISC. PUBLICATION 243, U.S. DEPT. OF AGRICULTURE 
DESCRIPTIONS OF GENERA AND SPECIES 
TRIBE 1. BAMBUSEAE 
1. BAMBUSA Retz., Obs. Bot. 5: 24. 1789. [As Bambos] 
Spikelets, several- to many-flowered, sessile, solitary or in clusters 
on an elongate axis or the branches of a panicle, the glumes and sterile 
lemmas persistent after the fall of the florets; glumes small; lemmas 
firm, sharp-pointed or awn-tipped; keels of palea projecting but not 
winged; stamens 6. Large usually erect bamboos of the Old World. 
1. Bambusa vulgaris Schrad.; Wendl., Coll. Pl. 2: 26. pl. 47. 1810. 
COMMON BAMBOO. 
Bambusa sieberi Griseb., Fl. Brit. W. Ind. 528. 1864. Martinique. 
Arborescent, as much as 10 m tall, freely branching; flowering 
branches fascicled, elongate, leafless, the sessile spikelets radiate in 
clusters. 
Cultivated in the Tropics of both hemispheres, the native country 
doubtful but not American. Often planted around dwellings. Called 
in Cuba ‘‘cafia brava.’”’ The hollow stems are used for various pur- 
oses. 
e Cusa: Herradura, Léon* 16091, 16094. Habana, Léon 16095. 
San Blas, Jack 6923, 8727. El Cristo, Ekman in 1922. 
JAMAICA: Gordon Town, Hart 350a, 566. Castleton, Harris 11709. 
Haiti: St. Michel de l’Atalaye, Leonard 7515. 
Dominican Repusuic: Santiago, Hkman H 16267. 
LrEWwarD IsuANpDs: Guadeloupe, Duss 4122. 
WINDWARD IsutAnps: Martinique, Duss 1285. Grenada, Broadway 
tis: 
TRINIDAD: Port of Spain, Hitchcock 9986. Four Roads, Broadway 
2246. 
Topaco: Broadway 3412. 
BAMBUSA NANA Roxb. (FI. Ind. 2: 199. 1832), 2 to 3 m tall, has 
spread from cultivation at Cinchona, Jamaica. 
2. GUADUA Kunth, Syn. Pl. Aequin. 1: 252. 1822 
Spikelets several-flowered, subterete, mostly elongate, sessile or 
nearly so;stamens 6; palea winged. Large erect bamboos, our species 
spiny. 
1. Guadua latifolia (Humb. and Bonpl.) Kunth, Syn. Pl. Aequin. 1: 
254. 1822. 
Bambusa latifolia Humb. and BonplL, Pl. Aequin. 1:68. pl. 21. 1808. 
Venezuela. 
Arborescent, as much as 8 m tall, the summit nodding; spikelets 
cylindric, more or less falcate. 
Damp forests, Trinidad and northern South America. 
Trinipap: Botanic Gardens, ‘‘Planted, said to be native.” 
Broadway 7174 (fertile). 
4On some of Brother Léon’s collections a second name is associated with his, that of Brother Charles, 
Brother Clémente, Brother Hioram, or Brother Sergius, Father Roca, F. R. Cazanas, and others. Brother 
Léon has explained in a letter that these collections form a single series with his individual numbers; hence 
they are here listed under his name. 
