28. Bambusa] 97. GRAMINEJE. [2D. Dendbocalamus. 



3. B- Vulgaris, Schrad. Bansini. Beng. 



A commonly cultivated bamboo in gardens, sometimes -with the stems 

 a bright golden yellow. Nodes with a hairy ring. L. tesselate with the 

 pellucid cross nervules hairy benep.th when young, leaf-sheath appressed 

 white ha : ry. Culm-sheath* clothed with brown hairs, blade 2-6" by 4", 

 base with rounded falcate fimbriate auricles 



4. B arnndixiacea, Willd. Katanga, Katam madh, K. 

 Ketua, Beng. 



A very large bamboo densely caaspitose and with numerous 

 horizontal branches below, which, as well as many of the 

 other branches, are armed with recurved thorns. Internodes 

 usually short usually about 1 ft., sheath about as long much 

 over-lappiDg at the base and open above, young densely 

 yellow- hairy, blade short 2" up to 4". L. rather short 2|-7* 

 long nearly or quite glabrous, their sheaths pubescent. 



"Wild along ravines in Singbhum. Brandis says that it apparently 

 flowers gregariously every 30 years or so. A large number of clumps came 

 into flower in Dehra Dun "in 1907 in April, and fruited July, the panicltf 

 occupying the whole culm. 



L. with 5-6 prs. nerves* each side of the mid-rib, ending in a short stiff 

 filiforifc point. Clusters very large and dense about 1-1£'' by 1-1£" close. 

 Spkis. \-% " long. Lodicules and keels of the pale bearded. 



29. Dendrocalamus, Nees. 



1. P. strictttS, Nees. Bnru Madh, or Mat', K.. S. 



A more or less caaspitose bamboo 2-3" diam. Young 

 Rtems glaucous with a waxy bloom, old yellowish green. 

 Lower stem-sheaths 3-12" narrow, blade not very distinctly 

 differentiated triangular, not or scarcely auricled. Leaf* 

 sheaths rou^h-hairy or glabrous, blade |-1" broad glaucous and 

 softly hairy beneath. Fls. in prickly heads, hairy. Empty 

 glumes 2 muticous (Gamble says spinescent), upper two 

 flowering spinescent. 



Hill forests, very common. Fls. sporadically every year in Nov, Decid- 

 uous. 



Culms sometimes nearly solid. Internodes 12-18". Stem-sheaths 

 glabrous or covered with harsh hairs, striate, top rounded ciliate. X. with 

 rounded base and a fine twisted tip ; nerves* 3 -6 each side of mid-rib, 

 transverse nervules rednced to pellucid dashes. 



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