BAMBOOS OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS. 
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teriore scabra, caetemm glabra, 5 ad 7 cm longa, 6 ad 15 mm lata, nervi 
utrinque 3 yel 4, obseuri, petioli 1 ad 1.5 mm longi; vaginae molles, 
striatae, scabrae, apice truncatae, minute ciliatae, ligulis petiolo aequi- 
longis. Mores in spiculis minutis spicatis terminalibus vaginatis, alter- 
natim distantibus; vaginae parvae, pnberulae, 1.5 mm longae. Spicnlae 
oblongae, ad 4.5 mm longae; glnmae vacnae 2, minutae, emarginatae, 
pnberulae, ciliatae, I 1 mm, II 1.5 mm longa; glurna florens late emar- 
ginata, in sinu mucronata, 7-nervia, pubescens, 2.5 mm longa, 3.5 ad 
4 mm lata ; palea florenti similis, convoluta, apicis alis utrinque angulatis, 
apice solum obscure 2-carinata; lodiculae 1 ad 3 ( ?), spatbulatae, glabrae, 
rarissimae. Stamina 6, libera, 3 mm longa, linearia, apiculo scabro. 
Ovarium lanceolatum, stylo tenui, stigmatibus 2 vel 3, pilosis. Caryopsis 
oblonga, 5.5 mm longa, 4 mm lata, basi glumis suffulta, apice rostrata; 
pericarpium a semine facile solutum. 
• Luzon, Province of Benguet, Mount Santo Tomas, Elmer 6542, June, 1904. 
Negros, Canlaon Volcano, Bur. Sci. UfyO Banks, June, 1906, doubtful. 
A very curious and interesting plant, “rare in the mossy forest at the summit 
of the mountain” (Elmer). It seems to me to be distinctly a Dinochloa, but 
better specimens may possibly alter this opinion and possibly even prove it to 
belong to a new genus. Banks 5 specimen is like a small wiry Panicum and has 
no flowers. 
