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Author(s): F. A. McClure
Source: Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences, Vol. 24, No. 12 (December 15,
1934), pp. 541-548
Published by: Washington Academy of Sciences
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DECEMBER 15, 1934 MCCLTJRE : SCHIZOSTACHYUM 541
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542 JOURNAL OF THE WASHINGTON ACADEMY OF SCIENCES VOL. 24, NO. 12
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DECEMBER 15, 1934 mcclure: schizostachyum 543
5 Hitherto only 2 species have been recorded from China: S. chinense (a rather aber
rant species, concerning the vegetative characters and habit of which little is known)
and S. dumetorum. To these have been added S. lima, formerly known only from the
Philippine Islands, and two newly described, apparently endemic species.
' Sympodial rhizomes are short and thick, with congested nodes, and are early
determinate, i.e., after growing horizontally for a short distance they turn upward to
form a culm. This type of rhizome gives rise to a more or less crowded or caespitose
type of clump. For a fuller definition of the meaning of this term as used by the writer,
see Lingnan Agr. Rev. 3:40-47.1925.
7 The examinations were made by ordinary dissection. This point should be checked
by means of serial sections of the branching structure during its young stages.
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544 JOURNAL OF THE WASHINGTON ACADEMY OF SCIENCES VOL. 24, NO. 12
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DECEMBER 15, 1934 MCCLURE : SCHIZOSTACHYTTM 545
florescence may produce new rachis branches and new spikelets in the
second year. This behavior is apparently common to all the species studied,
and it is probable that the process may go on for an even longer period than
has been indicated by the records. Camus (1913) p. 173, no doubt refers
to this same phenomenon when he says of S. Zollingeri Steud. "parfois les
fascicules inférieurs prolifères."
Pilger (1927) observed the presence of a similar branching system in the
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546 JOURNAL OF THE WASHINGTON ACADEMY OF SCIENCES VOL. 24, NO. 12
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DECEMBER 15, 1934 mcclure: schizostachyum 547
SUMMARY
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548 JOURNAL OF THE WASHINGTON ACADEMY OF SCIENCES VOL. 24, NO. 12
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
11 This paper was first issued in 1839 as a separate with pagination 1-74. When it
appeared in the regular series in 1840 the pagination was changed to 91-164. Thus, in
the latter place our reference would be pp. 133-7.
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