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Again :— 
And many people on that river (of Cranganor) made use of these 
canes in place of boats, to be safe from the numerous crocodiles or 
caymoins (as they call them) which are in the river (which are in 
fact great and ferocious lizards). 
Colonel Yule accepts these passages as “ explaining, if not 
justifying,” the “big bounce” of Ctesias. The two earliest 
quotations cited by Colonel Yule in which the name appears 
in its present form are Fitch, in Hakluyt, i. 391 (a.D. 
1586): “All the houses are made of canes, which they call 
Bambos, and bee covered with straw”; and Linschoten 
(printed at London by John Wolfe, 1598), “A thicke reede 
as big as a man’s legge, which is called Bambus.” 
‘Classification 
Munro divides the Bambusacee into three sections :— 
1, TriGLossé, which have three stamens and spicule, 
with two or three bracts at the base. 
2. BAMBUSEZ VERZ.—True Bamboos, which have six 
stamens and several bracts. 
3. BACCIFER&, which have six stamens, several bracts, 
and berry or apple-shaped fruit. 
The Triglosse are sub-divided again into three sub- 
sections :— 
1. ARUNDINARLA. 
2. ARTHROSTYLIDEZ. 
3, CHUSQUEA. 
The first sub-section (Arundinariz) contains three groups :— 
(1) ARUNDINARIA. 
(2) THAMNOCALAMUS. 
(3) PHYLLOSTACHYS. 
