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232. BAMBtfSA, Schb. (Bambos, Bambus). Bamboo. Gramineae. 

 From vernacular, East Indies. Gigantic grasses. About 80 



species, natives of warm countries. 



a. B. vulgaris Schrad. India, now nat. in all tropical countries. 

 Common Bamboo. Uses innumerable. 



The following are among the numerous species known as 

 Bamboo; (b) B. ariuidinacea Willd., Thorny Bamboo of 

 India; (c)B. aspera Schult. (120 ft.), East Indies; (d) B. 

 Brandisii Munro (120 ft.), Tenasserim and Pegu; (e) B, 

 Balcooa Roxb. (70ft.), Bengal to Assam; (f) B. polymorpha 

 Munro (80 ft. ), Burma; (g) B. spinosa Roxb. (100) ft), 

 Bengal; (h) B. Tiilda Roxb. (70 ft), Bengal to Burma. 



Bamboos belonging to other genera are (i) Aiitlirosty lidiiim 

 excelsum Griseb. (80 ft.), West Indies; (j) Aruiidinaria acii- 

 iiiinata Munro (20 ft ), Mexico; (k) Aruiidinaria tesselata 

 Munro, (20ft.), S. Africa (see also 191); (1) Ceplialostachyimi 

 pergracile Munro (40 ft. ), Burma; (m) Cliusquea simplici- 

 fiora Munro (80 ft. ), Panama; (n) Dendrocalamus Hainiltoui 

 Nees (60 ft.), Himalayas; (o) (xigantocliloa lieterostachya 

 Munro (30 ft ), Malacca; (p) Guadua refracta Munro (80 ft. ), 

 Brazil; (q) Merostachys Clausseni Munro, (.^Oft), Brazil; (r) 

 Mstus Bourboiiicus Gmel. (50 ft ), Bourbon, (s) Oxyten- 

 antliera Abyssinica Munro (50 ft), Abyssinia to Angola; (t) 

 Phyllostacliys nigra Munro, (25 ft.), China and Japan; (u) 

 Flanotia nobilis Munro, New Granada, (v) Pseudostacliyum 

 polymorphum Munro (very tall), Himalayas, (w) Schlzo- 

 stachyum Bhimei Nees, Java. 



233. BAPHIA, Afzel. Camwood. Papilionaceae. 



Trees. About 10 species, all African. 



a. B. Iiitida Lodd. Western Africa. Camwood, Barwood. Wood 

 yields a red dye. 



234. BAPTISIA, Vent Wild Indigo. Papilionaceae. 



From Greek, a ''dye" plant. Syn. Sophora, Podalyria, 

 Crotalaria, in part. Perennial herbs with showy yellow, white 

 or blue flowers. About 16 species, all of eastern and southern 

 U. S. and Mexico. 



a. B. australis (L.) R. Br. (S. australis L.). Southeastern U. S. 

 Blue, Wild or False Indigo, Blue Rattle-bush. 



b- B. tinctoria (L. ) R. Br. (S. tinctoria L., P. tinctoria Michx. ) 

 Ontario to Minnesota and Louisiana. Yellow or American 

 Indigo, Indigo-weed, Yellow or Indigo Broom, Clover Broom, 

 Broom Clover, Hoi-se-fly weed, vShoo-fly, Rattle-bush; Ger. 

 Baptisie, Wilder Indigo, Pferdfliegenstrauch; Fr. Indigo sau- 

 vage. Moot alterative, emeto-cathartic, antiseptic. 



235. BARBAREA, R. Br. Winter Cress. Crueiferae. 



Dedicated to St. Barbara. Syn. Erysimum, in part. Bien- 

 nial or perennial herbs with yellow flowers. About 10 species, 

 3 nat. in U. S. 



