Bambusa, HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 193 
2. B. stricta. Corom. pl. 1, N. 80. 
Spikes with dense globular verticels. rial from 
two to three-flowered, all hermaphrodite ; no nectary; — 
exterior glumes of the corols daggered. 
Teling. Sadanapa vedroo. 
- This is clearly a distinct species ; it grows in a drier 
situation, is not near so large, has a much smaller ca-_ 
vity, and is very straight; its great strength, solidity, and 
straightness renders it much fitter for a variety of uses, 
than the common sort; the natives make staffs to their 
spears, &c. of it. 
_ Stems fewer, straighter, and smaller, than in the com- 
_ mon sort, otherwise they are the same. Thorns oftener 
wanting. Inflorescence the same as in the former. Verticels 
sessile, globular, very dense, entirely surrounding the 
branchlets, Spikelets of the yerticel, crowded, distichous, 
&c, as in the last, Calyx as in the last, except that the 
scales are longer, and common to two or three spikelets, 
Here the flowers are generally all hermaphrodite, and 
_ Seldom more than three to the calyx. Corol two-valved ; 
exterior valvelet downy, with a very stiff, sharp, daggered 
point. Inner valve as in B, arundinacea. Nectary 1 
could not see any. Stamens six. Pistil woolly, Stigma 
two.cleft, filiform. Seed asin the last. 
3.B. Tulda. R. 
Arboreous, unarmed, Spikelets shoal a 
all hermaphrodite. Nectaries cuneate, fringed. Style 
three-cleft. oe. 
Vansa is the Sanscrit name which Sir William Jones 
applies to bamboos in general. 
Beng. Tulda Bans. 
Hind, Peka-Bans. - 
This is the common bamboo of Bengal, where it grows 
in the greatest abundance every where. Flowering time 
the month of May. waa 
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