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GAMBLE. 
2. Schizostachyum Dielsianum (Pilger) Merrill in Philip. Journ. Sci. 1 
11906) Suppl. 391. 
Dinochloa Dielsiana Pilger in Perk. Prag. FI. Philip. (1904) 148. 
Luzon, Province of Benguet, Tabio trail, Bur. Sci. 8976 McGregor, July, 1909; 
Mount Santo' Tomas, Elmer 6566, June, 1904; Loher 1660, 1662, 1663 (Serb. 
Kew.) : Province of Pampanga, Arayat, Merrill 1408, March, 1903: Province of 
Zambales, For. Bur. 388 Maule, March, 1904: Province of Bataan, Leiberg 6092: 
Province of Laguna, Mount Maquiling, For. Bur. 13651 Bosenbluth & Tamesis: 
Province of Nueva Vizcaya, For. Bur. 10879, 10888 Curran. Mindoro, Balete, 
Baco River, McGregor 27 9, May, 1905. Palawan, Merrill 711, February, 1903, 
For. Bur. 3548 Curran, January, 1906. 
This bamboo is said by Merrill to be “clambering, 60 to 80 feet high, 1 inch 
in diameter.” Maule calls it bical boboy. In regard to the question of the iden- 
tification of it with Bambusa diffusa Blanco, Hackel, in the note referred to 
above, remarks that the leaf -description does not well agree and that comparison 
of the fruit is necessary. Blanco describes the leaves of Bambusa diffusa as 
“figura de espada, pelosas por debajo,” and the fruit as “grande como un garbanzo,- 
globosa, cubierta con una membrana senalada con cuatro Imeas.” The latter 
character seems likely to be important. 
3. Schizostachyum palawanense Gamble sp. nov. 
Culmus suffruticosus, prope basin solidus, 8 mm diametro; internodia 
ad 20 cm longa, teretia; ramuli fistulosi, ad nodos incrassati. Folia 
membranacea, glabra, lineari-lanceolata, apice acuminata, basi plus minus 
inaequaliter acuta, marginibus scabra, 8 ad 15 cm longa, 7 ad 15 mm 
lata ; nervi obscuri, utrinque 4 ad 6 ; petioli brevissimi, vix 1 ad 2 mm 
longi ; vaginae striatae, ore oblique truncatae et ciliis longis 2 vel 3 
munitae; ligulis brevibus parce ciliatis. Flores in paniculis gracilibus, 
axillaribus in ramulis foliiferis ; rachis tenuissimus glomerulis parvis 
paucifloris ad nodos vaginatis, ultimis saepe eontinuis; vaginae strami- 
neae, acuminatae, cito caducae. Spiculae in glomerulis plerumque 3 vel 4 
fertiles glabrae, 6 ad 7 mm longae, additis aliis imperfectis et bracteis 
parvis glumace.is; glumae steriles 2 vel 3, ovatae, breviter mucronatae, 
inferiores I et II 2 ad 3 mm, III 4 mm longae, nervis obscuris; florens 
5 mm longa, multum convoluta ; palea etiam convoluta, aequilonga. 
Stamina 6, linearia, libera, 4 mm longa, apiculo 0.5 mm longo pilis 
albis longis aristatis tecto. Ovarium glabrum, stylo attenuato, longo, 
nitido, stigmatibus 3, longis, plumosis. Fructus ignotus. 
Palawan, Puerto Princesa, Bur. Sci. 277 Bermejos, January, 1906. 
The specimen bears flowering shoots not only in the axils of the branchlets, but 
also direct from the roots, but this may not always be the ease. As noted by 
Hackel, it seems an anomalous species, with spilcelets not unlike those of S. acuti- 
florum, but with the apiculus of the stamens quite different. 
4. Schizostachyum Hallieri Gamble sp. nov. 
Frutex dense caespitosus ; culmus 8 ad 9 m altus, 2 ad 4 cm diametro ; 
internodia ramulorum gracilia longissima, saepe 1 ad 1.2 m attingentia. 
Folia membranacea, lanceolata vel ovato-lanceolata, apice setaceo- 
acuminata, acumine scabro, basi inaequaliter rotundata, marginibus scabra 
