192 ‘HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Bambusa. 
from two to three-valved, valvelets equal, oblong, con- 
cave, smooth, and of a firm texture ; scales round the 
base small, oval, number uncertain ; they are also often 
common to several minute, sterile spikelets. 
HERMAPHRODITE flowers one, two, or three below the 
male. Calyx no other than that above described. Corol 
two-valved, the exterior valvelet rather the shortest, ob- 
long, pointed, smooth, cartilaginous ; the inner valvelet 
oblong, margins inflected, concave behind, -and fringed 
with hairs round the elevated margins: of thei posterior 
concavity. Nectary three obovate scales embracing the 
insertions of the stamens, and germ. Filaments six, in- 
serted in the base of the germ. | Anthers linear, incum- 
bent. Germ oval. Style single. Stigma two-cleft;— 
divisions plumoge. . Seed, firmly closed in the corol, ex- 
geodinghy like oats and about,the same size. | Agee 
meget FLoweERs from one abi three above ths hesnill 
phrodite. Pistil none. ene. ioe 
It would be calla isin and unnecessary to mention she . 
various purposes to which this most useful plant is. = 
they are already known to-most people. 
‘The Tamul Doctors say the root is diluent; tliat the’ 
bark cures eruptions ; the Camphire, or salt ¢( Tabaséer)o 
cures all sorts of paralytic complaints, flatulencies, and 
poisons, The leaves are esteemed the best Emmenagogue } 
the Chinese are said to possess the same idea. The neti ) 
-is_used for food as rice... 
-Tabasheer Vedroo Paloo, that: is en of beating of 
the Telingas ; and Mungle Upoo, salt of bamboo, of the 
Tamuls, the substance so well described by Dr. Patrick 
Russell, in the 80th vol, of the Philosophical Transactions 
of London, ie: fount: in the; asian: psa a 
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