ERA AND SPECIES 



BAMBOOS 

 BAMBUSA 

 ARUNDINACEA 



fv tin-so industrial substances away completely from the Bamboo 

 its associates into Mats, until it becomes logically impossible to 

 Cotton, Silk and Wool the chief matting materials from the 

 a i nl KIDS, the Canes and the Reeds. 



Tin- following uiv the chief Indian genera and species of the Itnnibnsi 

 recognised by botanists, together with the more valuable special pro- 

 of each : 



Arundinaria aristata, Gamble ; bhebham, babain, rate nigdla. East Himalaya, 

 alt. !,ono to 11,000 feet. .4. /cn</u. Munro ; the smallest of Indian liam- 

 mot with in South India and Ceylon. .4 r/-|/im. Kurt; a common 

 i Burma, distributed to the Naga hills and Assam, alt. 5,000 to 7,500 

 t. The iilli bamboo of Assam, where it is used in house-construction. 

 /iKitn. Ners ; the Himalayan Bamboo from the Ravi to Nepal, alt. smallest 

 000 to 8,000 feet. Is the ringdl, nirgdl, ndgre, narri, garrl, gorwa, apikao, ningdlo, Bamboo. 

 (ham, utfiam, kutino, etc. Culms are exported to the plains where they are 



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D.E.P., 

 i., 335-6, 

 371. 

 Reed 

 Bamboos. 



y CM Bamboo. 



up into hookah-tubes (naicha), fishing-rods, lining for roofs of houses, Himalayan 

 ws, baskot-work, etc. The neat little baskets used by the liillmen to hold ' 

 \\ool and distaff with which they beguile leisure hours is made of the ritigdl Uae8 - 

 boo. [Cf. Ind. For., 1886, xii., 414 ; xiv., 309 ; Gee, Monog. Fibrous Manuf. 

 1891, 13.] 



A. Grifllthlana, Munro; khnap or u-par, a thorny shrub of the Khasia 

 and Jaintia hills, employed to tie thatch. [Cf. Ind. For., 1888, xiv., 309. J 

 ///.< >-</i M.I. Munro ; a csespitose species of the Eastern Himalaya the 

 inghani, prong, etc.; affords an edible seed. [Cf. Ind. For., 1888, xiv., 310-4; Edible Seed. 

 For. Adm. Kept., 1903, 9.] .1. int<-i-in<-<iia. Munro; the nigala, titi nigala, 

 parmiok, prong nok, etc. An East-Himalayan species, alt. 7,000 feet. Is 

 an excellent hedge plant, the culms of which are strong and used for tisliing- Fishing-rods, 

 ds, baskets, mats, etc. Is largely exported from Darjeeling to the plains. B 49 * 8 * 8 . e *c. 



Munro; the namlang (or u-kadac namlang), a species of the 

 Khasia hills, alt. 5,000 to 6,000 feet. Is often specially cultivated and used 

 for \vattle-ond-dab walls. .4. ri-nina. Gamble; Naga and Jaintia hills. 

 A graceful climbing plant which has six stamens and is known as aampit, 

 keva, etc. It is used in basket-work and in hut-building, etc. .1. .WMUJII. Uut-buiMing. 

 Qamble, another climbing species, may also be mentioned. It occurs in the 

 Jaintia lulls and is known as beneng. Is used split as a binding material in 

 hut -building. 



A. racemosa, Munro ; the moling, phyeum, miknu, mheem, pheong, pat- 

 hiu, etc. A Darjeeh'ng gregarious species extensively employed in mat- Mats, et<\ 

 making and for roofs of Native houses, fences, garden supports, etc. Largely 

 used in. Darjeeling as fodder for ponies (Ind. For., 1888, xiv., 308-9). 

 A. *i>ntiitji<>m . Trin. ; the high-level ringal, garu, deo ningal, etc., of the N.W. 

 Himalaya (from the Sutlej), alt. 7,000 to 9,000 feet. Is the common under- 

 wth of deodar and pine. Often flowers gregariously. -4. it'i-iuittimui. 

 the chevari a shrubby species of the hills of Southern and Western 

 specially abundant on the Nilgiris. Largely used for mats, baskets, Mats, 

 walking-sticks, etc. ; exported to Bombay and all over India. The young shoots 

 are eaten and the grain has often proved of much value. 



Bambusa arundinacea, Wind. The Spiny Bamboo or kanta bans, behor, 

 bana, katanga, kalak, ran, ketua, katauai, kotoha, goda, dongi, magar bans, 

 ndl bans, vedru, penti-vedru (hollow bamboo), mungil, kyakatwa, etc. This 

 tall, graceful bamboo is both wild and cultivated all over India and 

 Burma, except in the Himalaya and Sub-Himalaya and the valleys of the Gauges 

 and Indus. It is scarce in the Central Provinces but not uncommon in Gujarat. Habitat 

 Very frequent in Orissa and the Karnatak, both as a small and as a large 

 variety, and abundant in the Konkan and on the Western Ghat ranges. In the 

 Deccan it occurs in the valleys (as it also does throughout South India), ascending 

 the Nilgiris to alt. 3,000 feet. Scarce in Northern and Eastern Bengal and 

 Assam, but becomes common in Burma from Pegu and Mortabon to Tenasserim. 

 Gamble tells us that it flowers about every thirty years and is reproduced 

 by seed, but several writers in the Indian press say only twice in a century. A 

 forest of surpassing splendour is transformed into one of desolation and death, 

 aoon followed by fire, until the charred stems, dust and ashes are all that 

 remain. But seeding would appear to take place in sections. A writer in the sv,iiu-_;. 



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South India. 



Walking-sticks. 



D.E.P., 

 i., 390 1. 

 Spiny 

 Bamboo. 



