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branchlets, and the fruit with only a minute apiculus instead of the large conical 
one of the latter species. Topping’s specimens have both flowers and fruits, the 
latter most interesting in structure. Merritt gives the common name as usiu and 
describes the plant as “climbing,” and yet “very shrubby on top of the mountain 
and not more than 1 m high, below larger and of regular size;” Merrill says 
that it reaches 40 feet in height and is very straight and erect. His specimens 
are slightly abnormal, being from broken culms, but the spikelets and leaves 
agree with the chief type. He has referred his specimen to Bambusa lumampao 
Blanco, which more probably is Schizostachyum acutiflorum Munro. 
8. Schizostachyum Curranii Gamble sp. nov. 
Culmus fruticosus, scandens, fistulosus; internodia viridia, scabra; 
vaginae chartaceae, glabrae, striatae, apice truncatae, ligulis longinscnlis, 
parce setaeeo-fimbriatis. Folia chartacea, glabra, lanceolata vel ovato- 
lanceolata, apice longe setaceo-acuminata, basi snbcordata, marginibns 
scabra, 12 ad 20 cm longa, 2 ad 3 cm lata ; nervi utrinque 7 vel 8, perob- 
scuri ; petiolns brevis, 3 mm longus ; vaginae glabrae, striatae, ore oblique 
trnncatae, ligulis longiusculis. Flores in paniculis axillaribus in culmis 
foliiferis, ad 70 cm longis; ramuli multi ad nodos racemos vaginatos 
ferentes; vaginae lineari-lan eeolatae, stramineae,' glabrae, 1 ad 3 cm 
longae ; racemi spiculis 1 ad 6 alternatim dispositis et stramineo-bracteatis. 
Spiculae oblongo-lanceolatae, glabrae, 8 mm longae; ultima 2 , ebracteata, 
inferiores vel $ , bracteatae et bracteolis binis parvis bicarinatis, 
ciliatis; glumae steriles 2 vel 3, ovatae, longe mucronatae, 5-7-nervatae, 
5 ad 6 mm longae; fertilis minor, convolutus, 5 mm longus; palea 
minima, hyalina; lodiculae 2 vel 3, ovatae, obtusae, 1 mm longae, apice 
longe fimbriatae. Stamina linearia, 3 mm longa, apiculo plumoso 1 mm 
longo. Ovarium puberulum attenuatum, stigmatibus plumosis, floris 2 
glabrum, basi incrassatum. Fructus ignotus. 
Luzon, Province of Benguet, Lusod-Bayabas trail, altitude 2,000 m, For. Bur. 
10849 Curran, December, 1908. 
9. Schizostachyum luzonicum Gamble sp. nov. 
Culmus suffrutieosus, 1 ad 2 m altus, parce fistulosus, glaber, nitidus; 
internodia 20 ad 25 cm longa, 1 cm diametro ; vaginae 3 ad 5 cm longae, 
glabrae, margine ciliatae, ore fimbriato-auriculatae, pseudophyllis tri- 
angularibus longe acuminatis; ramuli stricti, folia et flores ferentes. 
Folia coriacea, glabra, pallida, versus apices ramulorum congesta, lan- 
ceolata, apice acuminata, basi cordata, marginibus cartilagineis, 10 ad 
20 cm longa, 2 ad 3.5 cm lata; nervi obscuri, utrinque 8 ad 10; petiolus 
latus, 3 ad 5 mm longus; vaginae glabrae, nitidae, ore fimbriato-auri- 
culatae, ligulis brevissimis. Flores in paniculis vaginatis lateralibus vel 
terminalibus foliis sufEultis, 15 ad 60 cm longis; rachis alternatim 
sinuatus; glomeruli paueiflores singuli vel in spicis basi vaginati, vagina 
glabra, 10 ad 15 mm longa, aristata margine ciliata; bracteae parvae, 
3 vel 4, ovatae, longe ciliatae, spiculis 3 quarum una longior et fertilis. 
Spiculae lineari-fusiformes, aristatae, 1 cm longae; glumae steriles 2 vel 
