254 



CHINA. 



[ Graminece. 



or tab. 837 of the drawings in trie India House, it certainly does not belong to E. tenella, P. Beauv., and 

 bears much more resemblance to the present species ; but it differs from both by all the branches of the panicle 

 being short, and consequently with a habit nearly that of E. Koenigii, N. ab E., or P. interrupta, Roxb. 

 We have hitherto seen no forms of E. verticillata that resemble either of the two last mentioned of Rox- 

 burgh.] 



§ 4. Ciliares ; paniculate, aid paniculato-spicatce, valvula superiori, omnibitsve et valvulis et glurnis ciliatis. 



8. E. plumosa ; panicula decomposita patula, ramis alternis strictiusculis prope a basi 

 fasciculato-divisis axillis longe barbatis, spiculis subsecundis cernuis lineari-oblongis 

 4-8-floris, valvula inferiori obtusa trinervi superiorem longe rigideque ciliatam aequante, 

 culmo adscendente ramoso, foliis vaginisque glabris, his collo longe barbatis. Link, 

 Hort. Ber. I. p. 192. N. ab E.in Agr. Bras. p. 511 (cum syn. completa). — Poa plumosa. 

 Betz, Obs. 4. p. 20. Boxb. Fl. hid. I. p. 337 (ed Wall) 1. p. 338. Kunth, En. I. p. 338. 

 — P. capillaris. Boxb. in Cat. Merc. Angl. Ind. Or. Mas. tab. 838 (fide Am.). 



Hab. Circa Macao et in insulis vicinis ; G. H. Vachell, n. " a." 



Trib. X. BAMBUSACEiE. 



27. BAMBUSA. Linn. 



I. [B. verticillata ; culmo inermi? foliis lanceolatis attenuatis utrinque laevibus margine 

 scabris basi rotundatis, vaginis glabris ore nudis, spicis e nodis superioribus culmi sim- 

 plicibus patulis aphyllis vel apice ramulum foliosum brevem proferentibus, spiculis 

 sub-8-floris ovato-oblongis acutis erectiusculis aggregato-subternis, glomerulis equidis- 

 tantibus subapproximatis, glumis subquaternis superiori apicem versus leviter carinulata, 

 fiosculis omnibus praeter 2-3 inferiores neutros hermaphroditis, valvula inferiori laivius- 

 cula orbiculato-ovata mucronata glabriuscula margine superiori versus breviter ciliata, 

 superiori minore multoque angustiore pubescente ciliata, stylo longo villoso apice 3-fido. 

 — B. verticillata. N. ab E. in Agr. Bras. p. 534? (vix Willd.) Schult. Syst. Veg.l. p. 

 134G (sub obs. 2, descr. opt.). — B. nana. Boxb. Fl. hid. 2. p. 199 ? (quae fruticosa inermis, 

 nec fusius descripta). 



Hab. Circa Macao ; Millett. 



Our specimens agree in every respect with Schultes' description above referred to, except as to the number 

 of iiorets in the spikelet, which is probably subject to much variation. We cannot see how B. Thouarsii, 

 Kunth, En. 1. p. 431, judging from the specific character given in that work, differs ; but nearly all the 

 synonyms there adduced belong to other species. Nastus, Beauv. Agr. t. 25. f. 3, can scarcely belong to 

 either, although the shape and disposition of the spikelets are not much at variance on account of the style 

 being represented bifid. 



We have received, also, from Mr. Millett, from China, another species of Bambusa, in which the inflo- 

 rescence seems to form an immense panicle, or decompound spike, with the branches only of which we are 

 acquainted : these emit from the joints alternate fascicles of 2 or 3 long unequal simple spikes ; on these last 

 are placed alternate dense fascicles, composed of several sessile subulate acute spikelets, each nearly an inch 

 long ; the lower florets are sterile, the upper ones, in all we have seen, purely male, without any bisexual 

 one : the long lower valvelet of the male florets is oblong, acuminated, and glabrous ; the upper one very 



