4 inehes long, flattened, 1/2 inch wide eat the bese, whieh 
hes « thickened perfectly smocth shoulder; Sheaths green, 
sméoth, solidly enclosing the stemy ligule with seattering 
spines varying from 1/8 to 3 inches long; rechis angular, 
with Seattering solitery recurved black spines along the 
lower Side; flegelle arising opposite the leaf and & tri- 
fle below it, longer and sore recurved, sharply spinescent 
exeept toward the base; the inflereseence terminal or toward 
the top, arising similerly to the flagellae in regard to the 
Leaves; branches yellowish green, quite rigid, strongly 
yeourved, 8 foot apart, their sheaths green and smooth, 
the ligule finely ee Flowers oreamy yellow, even the 
celyx, fragrant, easily falling; “Whoy." leaflets descend- 
ing @lightly, nearly equal green on both sides, more or less 
felded upon the lower surface, tough; sltitude £5 feat; 
Brooks Point, Mereh, 191ie 
12608  Sembaee vulgaric Yendl. Medium sized ereet 
bamboo trees, more of lese scattered in clusters forming dense 
eolonies in dry compact sei1 of the cogon formation at 25 
feot altitude; steme erect, uniformly 3 to 4 inches thick, 
20 to 20 feet high, branehed 411 along but more 60 above 
the mid@le; the jeinte 1 more or less foot apart, those 
near the ground provided with reots, dark green, @mooth, 
without spiny branches towrerd the bese; branches slter- 
nate, unequal in length, esther slender and rebrenched, 
ase¢ending, the lerger ones 10 feet long; Sheaths 8 inehes 
leng, folidingly encircling the stem, yellowish green, on 
the outeide provided with derk brown hairs, apex truncete, 
exeopt the trianculerly sevminate S inches long tip, ligule 
herny eppendsges with pectimite bristles; infloreseence 
mainiy upon leafless stems; spikes fletbened, few to seve-~ 
vel, flowered, coecttered in sessile fascicles sleng the 
branchlets or even at the bese of the branches; glumes 
green, Soon tirning strew brown; anthers 6, purplish 
vertielillete, filements monedelphous but free at the dis 
tel ends; branchlete tough, yellowish and appearing aa 
iz polished: leaflets horisontel er @excending, slightly 
peler areen beneath, soon wilting efter being cut, the 
sides voll uwoon the upper surface; branches et the point 
of attachment to the stem imbricately provided with dry 
bracts or sheaths; wood rather thiek and herd; “Taring." 
agg on the branchlets yellow.  Urooks Point, March, 
oF lbh lt 
12609. Artoearpus cumingiana Trecl, Rather large 
tree in fertile moiet #011 of weods Slong water courses or 
 @long the Iara river at 25 feet eliitude; stem 2 feot thick, 
50 feet high, brenched from the middle; branches widely 
spreading, exeekedly and rather freely rebranched, the 
ultimate ones bendeble and avecending; wood moderately hard, 
vurly, fibrous, oderless end tasteless, yellowish at least 
on the outeide; bark thick, grayish brown, Sealing in 
irveguler relstively thin plates, white on the inbide, otinr- 
wise reddish, freely bleeding with viseid latex; leaves few 
et the ende of the branchlets, submenbranous, descending, 
folded upen the lucid richly green upper side, paler beneath, 

