The Philippine Journal of Science, C. Botany. 
Vol'VIII, No. 4, July, 1913. 
SOME ADDITIONAL BAMBOOS OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS 
By J. Sykes Gamble 
{East Liss, Hants, England) 
During the past year I have received for identification a 
considerable number of bamboos through Mr. E. D. Merrill and 
Mr. A. D. E. Elmer, most of which have proved to belong to 
species mentioned in my paper entitled “The Bamboos of the 
Philippine Islands.” ^ For the species already enumerated a 
number of additional localities are here recorded, and several 
specimens bring additions to the list, additions of considerable 
interest which it is worth while to record. It has occurred to 
me that a list of the specimens identified may be useful as a 
supplement to my previous one. The numbers cited for each 
generic and specific name refer to those given in the previous 
list, additions being indicated by an asterisk. 
1. *GUADUA Kunth 
1. *GUADUA PHILIPPINENSIS Gamble sp. nov. 
Culmus fruticosus, 4 ad 6 m altus, ad 5 cm diametro; inter- 
nodia teretia, ad 75 cm longa ; ramuli teretes, flores ac folia geren- 
tes, vaginis glabris (juniores tantum in specimine adsunt). Fo- 
lia membranacea, lineari-lanceolata, apice longe acuminata, basi 
saepissime rotundata, utrinque glabra, marginibus scabra, 10 
ad 18 cm longa, 10 ad 15 mm lata, nervi utrinque 5 vel 6 baud 
conspicui ; petiolus subnullus ; vagina glabra vel paullo puberula 
apice auriculis perparvis albo-setiferis munita; ligula brevissi- 
ma, saepe etiam setifera. Flores in racemis terminalibus vel 
ad nodos ramulorum ultimorum fasciculatis ; racemi 5 ad 12 
cm longi spicularum fascicules alternatim gerentes et in quoque 
fascicule spiculas 1 ad 3 fertiles saepissime deflexas cum paucis 
perparvis sterilibus et bracteis paleaceis parvis ; rhachis gracilis, 
albo-pubescens, ad basim stramineo-bracteatus et ad nodos con- 
spicue hirsutus. Spiculae oblongo-lanceolatae, glabrae vel minute 
albo-farinosae ad 15 mm longae, floribus circa 4 vel 5 fertilibus, 
'This Journal 5 (1910) Bot. 267-281. 
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