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Miq. is a synonym of Gigantochloa verticillata Munro. The 

 native names given by Rumphius are bulu sammet, bulu gantang, 

 bulu wani besaar, terin maysele, and tabatiko sammat. I suspect 

 that it is, at least in part, Dendro calamus giganteus Munro. 



GIGANTOCHLOA Kurz 



GIGANTOCHLOA ASPERA (Schultes) Kurz ex Koord. Exkurs. Fl. Java 

 1 (1911) 176. 



Bambusa aspera Schultes Syst. 7 2 (1830) 1352 (type!). 

 Arundarbor aspera Rumph. Herb. Amb. 4: 11, t. 2. 



Munro,* sub Gigantochloa atter Kurz, states: "Kurz, in his 

 notes, identifies this species [Gigantochloa atter] with Bambusa 

 aspera and B. bitung Roem. & Sch." to which Kurz f rejoins : 

 "I do not understand this interpretation in which I am said to 

 have identified 2 such species, as those alluded to, which differ 

 toto coelo! As far as I am aware I have identified B. aspera 

 with B. Bitung, but surely not these two with B. atter. The one 

 is (sententia Munroana) a Dendro calamus, the other a Gigan- 

 tochloa." He then adds a diagnosis of Bambusa aspera as he 

 understands the species, but which is not published under Gigan- 

 tochloa. The range is given as "Indian Archipelago, from the 

 Moluccas to Singapore." Bambusa aspera R. & S. is not men- 

 tioned by Gamble,} but Bambusa bitung R. & S. is placed as a 

 probable synonym under Dendrocalamus flagellifer Munro. 

 Camus § likewise does not mention Bambusa aspera R. & S., 

 but follows Munro and Gamble in the disposition of Bambusa 

 bitung R. & S. I have found no transfer of the species to 

 Gigantochloa antedating that made by Koorders, cited above. 

 The species, which is one of doubtful status, may be a 

 Dendrocalamus. 



DINOCHLOA Biise 



DINOCHLOA sp.? 



Boeloe rottang Rumph. Herb. Amb. 5: 119. 



The description manifestly applies to some scandent species 

 of bamboo, which might be either of the genus Dinochloa or 

 Schizostachyum. Hasskarl, Neue Schlussel (1866) 102, referred 

 it with doubt to Dinochloa tjankorreh Buse=Z). scandens 0. 

 Ktze., but in the absence of material from Amboina representing 

 any scandent bamboo, all reductions of Boeloe rottang must be 

 uncertain. 



* Trans. Linn. Soc. 26 (1870) 125. 



fJourn. As. Soc. Beng. 39 2 (1870) 87. 



$Ann. Bot. Gard. Calcutta 7 (1896) 1-133, t. 1-118. 



§ Les Bambusees (1913) 1-215. 



