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(1) Triticum vulgare Vill. Hist. PI. Daupli. 2 (1779) 153; P.-Vill. Nov. 
App. (1883) 323; Vidal Phan. Cuming. Philip. (1885) 159; Rev. PI. Vase. 
Filip. (1886) 284. 
Luzon, Province of Benguet (4768 Merrill) November, 1906. 
Wheat, rarely cultivated in the Philippines, not spontaneous. 
(I have also specimens of Hordeum sativum L., var. vulgare, from plants 
cultivated in Benguet Province (No. 4746 31 err ill) , but like the preceding species 
this can not be considered a constituent of the Philippine flora. 
Tribe XIII. BAMBUSE.®. 
Large, often tree-like perennial grasses, sometimes scancleiit. Spike- 
lets 3 to 8 or sometimes 1-flowerecI, in panicles or racemes, mostly in 
tnfts or clusters at the nodes of the ]3anicle branches. Empty glumes 
two to several, increasing in size upwards, shorter than the flowering- 
glumes. Flowei'ing glumes awnless terminal awn. Palea two to many 
nerved, rarely nerveless. 
(69) BAMBUSA Schreb. 
Spikelets with 2 to 6 empty glumes, gradually increasing in size and 
becoming like the flowering glumes. Spikelets 2 to many-flowered. 
Ovary hairy. Usually tall arborescent shrubs, rarely climbers. 
Species about 60 in the tropical region of both hemispheres, the Philippine 
representatives, from lack of 'material in flower and fruit not well understood. 
From Blanco’s descriptions and the scanty imperfect material of this genus 
at present available, it is impossible to make a. satisfactory key to the species. 
(1) Bambusa blumeana Schultes f. Syst. Veg. 7 - (1830) 1343; Munro in 
Trans. Linn. Soe. 26 (1868) 101; Kunth Enuni. 1 (1833) 431; F.-Vill. Nov. 
App. (1883) 323; Eendle in Ann. Bot. Gard. Calcutta 7 (1896) 50. pi. 47: 
Vidal Cat. PI. Prov. IManila (1880) 47; Merr. in Philip. Journ. Sci. 1 (1906) 
Suppl. 29. Bamhus pungens Blanco FI. Filip, ed. 1 (1837) 270. Miq. FI. Ind. 
Bat. 3 (1859) 421. Bamhus arundo Blanco 1. c. ed. 2 (1845) 188. 
The commonly cultivated bamboo of the Philippines, perhaps not a native 
species. Not seen in flower. T., Gauayan totoo, Cauayan. 
Malayan Peninsula and Archipelago. 
Probably the species credited to the Philippines by F.-Villar as Bambusa 
arujidinacea -was a form of the above. The figure of Bambusa arundinaoea given 
by Vidal, Sinopsis, Atlas. (1883) t. 96. f. A. was copied from Beddome’s figure, 
and not drawn from Philippine material, teste Vidal 1. c. p. 42. 
(2) Bambusa levis Blanco FI. Filip, ed. 1 (1837) 272; ed. 2 (1845) 189; 
Miq. FI. Ind. Bat. 3 (1859) 421. Dendrooalamus flagellifer F.-Vill. Nov. App. 
(1883) 324 ex sjm. Blanco, non Munro. 
An endemic { ?) species of uncertain value, known only from Blanco’s descrip- 
tion. T., Gauayang boo. 
(3) Bambusa lima Blanco FI. Filip, ed. 1 (1837) 271; ed. 2 (1845) 189; 
Miq. FI. Ind. Bat. 3 (1859) 421; IMerr. in Pliilip. Journ. Sci. 1 (1906) Suppl. 29. 
Ba/mbusa longinodis F.-Vill. Nov. App. (1883) 323 non Miq.? 
Represented by the following sterile specimens. Luzon, Province of Bataan, 
