INDIAN BAMBUSE® ; GAMBLE. 31 
2-keeled, with long white сіе on the keels and penicillate at the tip, 5 to 7 nerves in 
the hollow between the keels; пай а clavate. flattened, striate, glabrous except on Ше 
ciliate tip and occasionally the faintly ciliate edges, articulate below the glumes, so that the 
spikelet readily breaks up. Lodicules 3, “15 in. long, two cuneate, oblong, obliquely truncate 
thickened and fleshy below, especially on one side, hyaline and about 5-nerved above, the 
upper part long-white fimbriate ; the third not thickened, hyaline, acute, long-fimbriate. 
Stamens long exserted, anthers 3 to *4 in., purple, glabrous, blunt at the tip or emarginate. 
Ovary obovate-oblong, white, hairy above, surmounted by a short hairy style which 
is early divided into 3 long plumose wavy stigmas.  Caryopsis oblong, hirsute at the 
apex, furrowed, 3 in. long. Мол). Fl. Ind. ii. 193, Icon. ined. t. 1403; Munro in 
Trans. Linn. Soc. xxvi. 91; Brandis For. Flora 566; Kurz For. Fl. Burma ii. 559. В. 
Масата, Buch.-Ham. Wall. Cat. 50264; Вамвовл, Wall. Cat. 5027, 50308, 5030C. 
DenprocaLtamus TuLDA, Voigt Hort, Sub. Cale. 718. 
. Central and Eastern Bengal, Assam and Burma, also in the hills of the Northern 
Circars (if I am right in considering the common gregarious bamboo of the hills of the 
Golgonda Agency in the Vizagapatam district to be this species) and probably in those 
of Orissa. It is cultivated all through Eastern Bengal and Burma, and is probably 
the most common kind in the Lower Bengal rice country and in the Assam valleys. 
It is by no means easy to distinguish this bamboo in the Herbarium from some 
of. its neighbours when the flowers are not present; even when growing it is по 
always easy to recognize it from В. nutans. It varies, however, a good deal, both 
in the size of flower and size and shape of leaf and culm-sheath, and this probably 
accounts for its many native names. I have a large series of specimens from Assam 
through С. Mann which bear the names Mirtenga (Sylhet), Wati (Garo), Wamuna, 
wagi, nal-bans (Assamese), Dev-bans (Assam-Burmese), Вујић, Jati, 740, ghora (Kamrúp). 
Roxburgh gives the namos Tulda, jowa (Bengali); Peka (Hindi). I have specimens 
of my own collecting from Jalpaiguri and Ваха in the Western Duars called 
Kiranti and Майа, and these also I identify аз В. Tulda. C. B. Clarke has 
kindly given me specimens collected by himself at Jessore, Barisal and Rangpur. In 
Chittagong it is called Mitenga, Mritenga, and specimens were collected by J. L. Lister 
in 1876, and by В. Ellis in 1886. Тһе Burma specimens collected by Brandis, by 
Kurz in Martaban and Респ Yomas (No. 154), as well as those lately sent me from 
the Meza Forests in Upper Burma by J. W. Oliver, Conservator of the Eastern 
Circle, are named Тайна (Burmese), and differ from the Bengal and Assam 
specimens by having smaller flowers, the spikelets rarely longer than 15 in. and the 
flowering glumes 4 in., but I see no reason to separate them. Аз : enumerated by 
Munro, it had been previously collected by Roxburgh, Wallich, Griffith, Hamilton, 
Masters and others, and the Caleutta Herbarium has specimens from many collectors, 
As regards its years of flowering, it undoubtedly has the habit of flowering gregariously 
over considerable areas, but single clumps, as has been observed in the Royal Botanic 
Garden of Calcutta, if badly treated by over-cutting or partly uprooted, will often 
produce flowers without any general flowering. Kurz collected flowers in 1867-68, 
Clarke in 1872 and again in 1884, all in Bengal; Mann’s collectors. sent it from 
Assam in 1889, and J. W. Oliver from Burma in 1892. In Chittagong it was gathered 
in flower іп 1876 and 1886. Тһе culms are used for all general purposes, and they 
are strong, but cannot approach those of В. Balcooa, as Roxburgh pointed out. 
Roxburgh says that if seasoned in water they become more durable, otherwise they 
