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E. D. MERRILL 
Schizostachyum textorium (Blanco) comb. nov. 
Bambus textoria Blanco, Fl. Filip. 270. 1837, ed. 2. 189. 1845, ed. 3. 
i: 335. 1877; Steud. Syn. PI. Glum, i: 331. 1854; Munro, 
Trans. Linn. Soc. 26: 122. 1868; Camus, Bamb. 135. 1913. 
Gigantochloa alter F.-Vill. Novis. App. 323. 1880, non Kurz. 
Schizostachyum merrillii Gamble, Philippine Journ. Sci. C. Bot. 5: 
278. 1910. 
Blanco's description is very short and imperfect, and he saw no 
flowering specimens. He cites the Tagalog name calbang, and states 
that the species is common in some, but not in all forests. For a 
number of years attempts to locate a bamboo known to the natives 
as calbang failed, but in the year 19 14 a characteristic species was found 
to be commonly known by this name in Batangas Province, Luzon, a 
region from which Blanco received much of his botanical material. 
This Batangas calbang agrees with Blanco's description, so far as 
the description goes, and is identical with Schizostachyum merrillii 
Gamble. The oldest specific name is here adopted. 
