148 SELECT PLANTS FOR INDUSTRIAL CULTURE 



Geonoma vaga, Grisebach and Wendland. 



From West India to Brazil. A dwarf decorative Palm, advancing 

 up to 3,000 feet on the mountains. 



Geum urbanum, Linne. 



Europe, North Africa, extra-tropical and Alpine Asia, South-East 

 Australia, North America. The "Avens " of Britain. A perennial 

 herb with a powerful anti-dysenteric root, which, according to 

 Muspratt, contains up to 41 per cent, of tannic acid. 



Gigantochloa apus, Kurz. (Bambusa apus, Roemer and Schultes.) 



Indian Archipelagus, at elevations up to 5,000 feet. Height of 

 stem to 60 feet. When young it is used for strings and ropes. 



Gigantochloa aspera, Kurz. 



Java. Found by Zollinger to attain a maximum height of 170 feet. 



Gigantochloa alter, Kurz. 



Java, in the region from 2,000 to 4,000 feet. Height of stems to 

 70 feet. One of the extensively cultivated species. 



Gigantochloa maxima, Kurz. 



Java. Height to 120 feet, the stems nearly a foot thick. One of 

 the most extensively cultivated of all Asiatic bamboos, ascending 

 into mountain regions. 



Gigantochloa nigro-ciliata, Kurz. (Oxytenanthera nigro-ciliata, 



Munro. ) 

 Continental and insular India. Stems to 130 feet long. 



Gigantochloa robusta, Kurz. 



Mountains of Java. Height to 100 feet. Kurz noticed in 

 Java the early growth to be nearly 1 8 feet in a month, the principal 

 branches only commencing when the shoot had reached a height of 

 about 70 feet. Some Java bamboos are known to measure, at a 

 height of about 120 feet, 22 inches in girth. 



Gigantochloa verticillata, Munro. (Bambusa verticiliata, Blume.) 



The Whorled Bamboo of India. It attains a height of 100 feet ; 

 in damp heat it grows at the astonishing celerity of 40 feet in about 

 three months, according to Bouche. The young shoots furnish an 

 edible vegetable like G. Apus and Bambusa Bitung. 



