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In the first edition of the * Species Plantarum” of Linnæus, 1755, one species 
is given under the name Arundo  Bambos. There is no doubt but that several 
species were referred to under that name, the chief and principal one being the 
common Bambusa arundinacea. 
In 1814 appeared the “ Hortus Bengalensis” of Dr. W. Roxburgh, Superin- 
tendent of the Company's Garden, now the Royal Botanic Garden, Calcutta, 
in which list were enumerated seven species under the names Bambusa arundinacea, 
stricta, Tulda, Balcooa, baccifera, spinosa, nana, which were afterwards described in 
the author's * Flora Indica." These form six of the species described in this work. 
In 1839 appeared the admirable monograph of Dr. F. J. Ruprecht, published 
first of all in the proceedings of the Imperial Academy of St. Petersburg, and 
afterwards as a separate work. In this, about 18 species were described from the 
Indo-Malayan region, corresponding to about 12 of those herein described. Then 
came, in 1866, the “Monograph of the Bambusaceæ,” by Colonel Munro, с.в., 
published in the “ Transactions of the Linnean Society, Vol. XXVI, which is the 
foundation of our modern knowledge of bamboos. In that work were published 
descriptions of Indo-Malayan species corresponding to about 70 of those herein given. 
Arranged in genera, Munro's Monograph described of Indo-Malayan species about 
70 altogether, allowing for those which have been herein reduced. 
Genus. Fully known. Partly known. Doubtful. Total. 
Arundinaria bns 10 5 dae 15 
Thamnocalamus 2 
Phyllostachys l 
Bambusa As 17 
Gigantochloa 2 
Oxytenanthera 4 
Melocanna i + 
Schizostachyum e 1 
Cephalostachyum 3 
Pseudostaehyum 1 
Teinostachyum 2 
Beesha 2 
Dendrocalamus 8 
Dinochloa $ 
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The “Flora Sylvatica” of Madras, by Colonel R. H. Beddome, described 18 
species as indigenous in Southern India, and of these 16 are admitted; while the 
“Forest Flora of British Burma," by S. Kurz, which appeared in 1878, included 30 
species of that country. In the present work, 115 species are described, making a 
considerable addition to those known to Munro; but this number is by no means the 
end; for there exist in Upper Assam, Upper Burma, Tenasserim, the Malay States, 
and even in South India also, several species which are known either only by the 
