430 



GRAMINE.E. 



[Beesha. 



3. B. Travancorica, Beddome ccxxxiv, t. 324. 

 Vern. Irul, Travancore. Stems 6 to 8 feet. 

 Stems densely gregarious. 



Hills of Tinnevelly and 

 Travancore, 3,000 to 

 5,500 feet. 



GENUS XI DENDROCALAMUS. 



1. D. strictus. Nees ; Munro 147 ; Beddome India and Burma, 

 ccxxxv, t. 325 ; Brandis 569 ; Kurz ii. 558. 

 (Bambusa stricta, Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 193.) 

 Male Bamboo. Vern. Bans, bans kaban, 

 bans khurd, kopar (stem), Hind. ; Ear ail 

 (stem), Beng. ; Bas, udha, Bombay ; Halpa, 

 veddar, vadur, Gondi ; Indo, Kurku ; Ekiru, 

 Baigas ; Kark, Pandratola ; Kauka, Tel. ; 

 Myinwa, Burm. Leaves often deciduous. 

 The stems are strong, elastic, nearly solid, 20 

 to 40 and up to even 100 feet high, used for 

 spear handles, and all purposes of building and 

 basket work. 



This species occasionally flowers gregariously, but generally single stems only 

 or single clumps are found in flower. 



Mr. Greig, Conservator of Forests, North- Western Provinces, writing in January 

 1879, reports the following interesting points regarding the flower of this bamboo in 

 the outer valleys of the Garhwal Hills : 



" We have a wonderful crop of bamboos this year, I have been observing our bamboos 

 a good deal lately, and I have observed numbers with one or two stems of a clump in 

 flower, in some places as many as 5 per cent, of the clumps have flowering stems, and 

 in others I have only found ten clumps with flowering stems out of several thousands 

 examined. Between Kohdwara and Haldu Khata whole clumps over large am^s have 

 seeded and died, and the ground is now a dense thicket of young clumps of from 10 to 

 30 feet high. The seeding commenced here in 1869 or 1870, and has been going on ever 

 since. Many of the few remaining old clumps are now seeding, not one or two stems, 

 but every stem of the clump, and not one single instance did I see in that forest of 

 only one or two stems in seed. These remarks apply to the forests below Gorighat 

 and along the base of the hills between the Ganges and Ramganga rivers. I hope to 

 see the bamboos of the Palim, Kansore, &c., this year, whole areas in those valleys seeded 

 and died in 1877-78." 



2. D. sericeus, Munro 148. Flowered in 1858 



3. D. Parishii, Munro 149 ; Brandis 570 



4. D. membranaceus, Munro 149; Kurz ii. 560. 



Vern. Wa-yai, Burm. Stems 40 to 50 feet. 



5. D. giganteus, 'Munro 150. (Bambusa gigantea, 



Wall.) Vern. WakU, waya, Burra. Stems very 

 tall, often 26 inches in girth. 



6. D. Hookcri, Munro 151 ; Brandis 570. Vern. 



Ussey, assey denga, ukotang, Ass. Stems 50 

 feet. 



7. D. Hamiltonii, Nees and Arnott ; Munro 151; 



Krandis 570; Gamble 87. Vern. Tama, 

 Nep. ; Pao, Lepcha ; Pa-shing, Bhutia jLokwa, 

 Deng.; Wah, Mechi Wahnok, Garo. The 

 common bamboo of the Eastern Himalaya. 

 Tin- h.'ilms are large, 3 to 6 inches diameter, 

 rather hollow and not always straight, but 

 ilicy .'iir used for every variety of purpose. 

 This bamboo grows gregariously, on hill- 

 sides, up to :*,<><><) fret, and the stems aro 

 .](( In (in I'ccl high. Tlu-y often grow low 

 ;n d taiml.'d, instead of straight, and the 

 may often be recognised hy this 



Parasnath in Chota Nag- 

 pore. 



Panjab. (P. 114, Sutlej.) 



Martaban (B 1315. Tou'n- 

 goo.) 



Tenasserim (B 1329, 

 Moulmein.) 



Assam. 



Sikkim, Bhutan, Assam 

 (E 1341, Bamunpokri.) 



