Hosseus, Botan. u. kolonialwirtsch. Studien über die Bambusstaude. 51 



Die Bedeutung für die Philippinen leitet J. Fore- 

 mann 1 ) mit den Worten ein : „Its uses are innumerable, and 

 it has not only become one of the articles of primary necessity 

 to the native, but of incalculable value to all in the Colony ..." 



Sir Brandis 2 ) schlägt vor, die beiden besonders für 

 die Praxis wichtigen Bambusen in Neu-Süd- Wales an- 

 zupflanzen : Arundinaria spatiflora Trinius, Arundinaria falcata 

 Nees. 



Colonel Y u 1 e 3 ) teilt uns in seinen Reisen von Marco 

 Polo folgendes mit : 



„Marco might well say of the bamboo that ,,it serves 

 also a great variety of other purposes." An intelligent native 

 of trakan who accompained me in wanderings on duty in the 

 forests of the Burmese frontier in the beginning of 1853, and who 

 used to ask many questions about Europe, seemed able to apprehend 

 almost everything except the possibility of existence in a country 

 without bamboos. „When I speak of bamboo huts, I mean to say 

 that posto and walls, wallplates and rafters, floor and thatch, and 

 the withes that bind them, are all of bamboo. In fact, it might, 

 almost be said that among the Indo-Chinese nations the staff of 

 life is a bamboo. Scaffolding and ladders, landing-jetties, fishing 

 apparatus, irrigation wheels and scoops, oars, masts and yards 

 (add in China, sails, cables, and caulking, asparagus, mecücine, 

 and works of fantastic art) spears and arrows, hats and helmets, 

 bow, bowstring and quiver, oil-cans, water-stonps and cooking 

 pots, pipe-sticks (tinder and means of producing fire) conduits, 

 clothes-boxes, pawn-boxes, dinner-trays, pickles, presewes, and 

 melodions musical instruments, torches, footballs, cordage, bellows, 

 mats, paper: these are but a few of the articles that are made 

 from the bamboo;" and in China, to sum in the whole, as B a r r o w 

 observes, it maintains order throughout the Empire ! (Ava Mission 

 p. 153; and see also Wallace Ind. Arch. I, 120 pp.) 



W. Robinson 4 ) betont, daß die Bambusstauden für 

 As s am die wichtigsten Pflanzen sind: „It is the prinzipal, and 

 in most instances the only material of which the houses of the 

 natives are compared. Their furniture, their implements of agri- 

 culture and in fact every article used by them entirely, or in 

 part, made from this valuable reed, and not unfrequently is it 

 introduced as an article of food. In this very useful plant, nature 

 seems to have been by no means sparing." 



S. Kurz 5 ) berücksichtigt für Birma ebenfalls die Be- 

 deutung der Bambusstaude, ebensolches habe ich für Siam getan, 

 wie wir noch sehen werden. Eine große Rolle spielen die Bambus- 

 stauden auf den Fidschiinseln! 



^Foremann, John, Philippine Islands. 1899. pp. 362—364. 



2 ) Brandis, Sir , Royal Soc. of New South Wales. 1885. 



3 ) Yule, Col., Travels of Marco Polo. London, p. 271. 

 Robinson, W. , A descriptive account of Assam. 1841. pp. 49 — 53. 



s ) Kurz, S., Bamboo and its Uses. 



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