10 COLONEL :\lUNRO'S MONOGRAPH OF THE BAMIJUSACE.I;. 



known to the Lcpcluis by tlillcrent nniu(>s, and that in Khasiya the natives enumerate 

 fourteen different kinds, the names of w liieh are detailed at p. 268 of the second volunK; 

 of tlie * nimalayan Jom-nals.' Most of these I have been able to identify with scientific 

 names. Witli such careful observers as Hooker and Thomson these native names are 

 of great value ; but apparently "non cuique datum" with similar care and facility to 

 express native sounds in European languages. 



A lari-e number of Bamboos are now in cultivation, and perhaps twenty species at 

 Kew alone. I am informed tliere are at least fifty in Paris. Few of these, perhaps of 

 Anindinaria only, are hardy in England, or even in the warmer parts of Ireland. Dr. 

 Moore mentions, in the 'Treasury of Botany,' "that several brakes of Arundinaria 

 falcatu were planted in the county of Cork, in 1818, and that, in ten years, the canes 

 had reached a height of from IG to 20 feet, being about a foot in circumference at the 

 base. The joints of the stems were nearly of equal growth, and owing to tliis regularity 

 presented a curious appearance, to those particularly who had not seen tropical vegeta- 

 tion." A fine plant of Gnadua latifoUa is stated to be growing in the Botanical 

 Gardens at Berlin. 



There is a specimen preserved in the British Museum of Bambusa vulgaris, which is 

 stated to have grown forty feet in forty days at Chatsworth, the noble seat of the Duke 

 of Devonshii'e. 



I have throughout this paper made considerable use of lluprecht's excellent memoir 

 on Bambusese in the Russian ' Transactions' already referred to, but have in all cases 

 marked with " " any paragraphs which I have copied verbatim. 



BAMBUSACEiE 



Monographice descriptce Anctore Colonel William Muxko. 



BAMiiusACEiE, Kunth in Mem.du :Mus. xi. 75 (1815); Rocm. et Sell. Syst. Veg. ii.850 (1817) ; Link 



in Hort. Bcrol. ii. 308 (1833); Trinius in Act. vVcad. Cses. Petrop. ser. vi. Sc. Nat. vol. i. 613 



(1835) ; Steud. Syn. 32'J (1855) ; Miqucl in Fl. Ind. Bat. iii.SGO (1855), et iu Ann. Mus. Lugd. 



Bat. ii. 284. (1866). Bambuse^, Nces in Agrost. Bras. 520 (1829); in Linnaea ix. 461 (1834) ; 



in Lindl. Nat. Syst. 2nda edit. 383 (1836); in Fl. Afr. Aust. 460 (1811) ; Kupreclit in Act. 



Acad. Cies. Petr. ser. vi. Sc. Nat. vol. iii. 2uda Part. p. 90 (1840). Banibusinea;, Agardh, Aph. 



153 ifde Nces). Festucacea, Subtribus II. Bambmea, Endl. Gen. 102. FestuceiE, Subtribus 



Bambusidce, Lindl. in Veg. King. 3rd ed. 116 (1853). Fcstucacearura genera, Kunth in Enum. 



426 (1833). 



Gramina fraticosa vcl arboresccntia, culmo nunc excclsissimo, 120-pcdali et ultra, nunc alte scandente, 



nunchumili, pcdali, fistuloso vcl rare fere solido, ssepissimc ad nodos ramosissinio, spinoso vel inermi. 



In nounuUis e nodis culnii infcrioribus " niultie fibrillic lignosie progerminant, quarum iuferiores, 



vcrje radices, in terrain intrant, supcriores spinas, bene dictas ' horridas/ mcntiuntur." In plurimis 



specicbus in eulmonim vetustiorum cavitate concrctioncs silicon, Tubusheer dictae, inventte sunt, 



sed nunquam in sectione " Triglossx." Itcrum in multis locis culnii vel turioncs (surculi) taiii 



numerosi sunt ut syh-ulas vel etiam sylvas densas fere inpcuetrabiles constituant. 



Folia pra; plantie statura minora, omnia nisi in Platonia basi articulata, ssepe cito dccidua, iuter- 



dum vemilis transversis impressis conspicuc tesscUata. 



