32 ANNALS OF THE ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN, CALCUTTA. 
are soon devoured by a small Bostrichus beetle. They are used for building, scaffolding, 
the making of mats and baskets, and when very young, they are, according to 
Roxburgh, pickled and eaten. 
Рглте No. 29.—Bambusa Тила, Roxb. 1, leaf-branch; 2 & 3, parts of flowering 
panicle—of natural size; 4 & 5, culm-sheaths—reduced considerably; 6, leaf-sheath; 7, 
spikele& when young; 8, do. when older; 9, flowering glume; 10, palea; 11, lodicules; 
12, anthers; 13, ovary, style and stigmas; 14, caryopsis—a// enlarged, (No. 5 from Kurz 
drawing, No. 14 from Wallich’s 5027; rest from fresh specimens collected in the Royal 
Botanic Garden, Calcutta.) 
9. Вамвоза NUTANS, Wall. MS. in Herb. 5031. 
А moderate-sized graceful bamboo, with culms arising singly from a creeping rhizome 
much branched above, naked below. Culms green, smooth, not shining, white-ringed 
below the nodes, 20 to 40 ft. high, 15 to 3 in. in diameter, straight; nodes not much 
raised, often hairy, lower ones bearing rootlets; internodes 15 to 18 in. long, thick-walled. 
Culm-sheaths rather variable, 6 to 9 in. long, covered on the back with appressed 
scattered black hairs, the base bearing a ring of soft deciduous hairs; roundedly truncate 
at top; imperfect blade of lower nodes and uppermost shoots 6 to 9 in. long and very 
broad, that of middle nodes shorter, acute, margins recurved, clothed within with 
appressed black hairs, rounded at the base and again decurrent on the top of the sheath, 
and bearing large waved auricles, one usually erect, the other decurrent, both densely 
furnished with long curved bristles; Пуше 1 to "2 in. smooth, dentate. Leaves linear- 
lanceolate, 6 to 12 in. long, 1 to 15 in. broad; rounded or attenuate at the base into 
а '1 to ‘2 in. petiole; ending above in a twisted scabrous point; green оп both sides 
_ when fresh, when dried white beneath, glabrous above except the scabrid hairs on the 
midrib and marginal veins, glabrous or slightly hairy beneath; scabrous on the edges; 
main vein rather narrow, prominent, pale beneath, secondary veins 7 to 10, intermediate 
8 to 9, pellucid glands frequent; Jeaf-sheaths striate, hairy when young, ending in a 
smooth callus and produced in a falcate auricle with а few long bristles; ligule elongated, 
obtuse, hairy. Inflorescence a stiff panicle bearing spicate branches with clusters of stiff 
erect spikelets in bracteate heads, rachis smooth. Spikelets many, sterile, or bearing 
gemmiparous glumes, few fertile, “7 to 1 in. long, glabrous, acute; empty glumes 2 to 
3, glabrous, mucronate, gemmiparous; fertile flowers 3 to 5; flowering glumes ovate, 
acute, mucronate, many-nerved, minutely hairy within; prs flattened, shorter than 
flowering glume, ovate, 2-keeled, with the long white ciliz on the edges of the keels 
overlapping; rachille clavate, hairy and ы at the top, uppermost 2 to 3 flowers 
usually imperfect. Lodicules 3, broad, obtuse, long fimbriate, fleshy at first, many-nerved, 
one narrower than the other two. Stamens sometimes 7, anthers long apiculate or slightly 
penicillate at apex. Ovary sub-obovate, stalked, glabrous below, pubescent above; style 
short pubescent, stigmas 2 to 3, shortly plumose, twisted, nearly glabrous. Caryopsis 
oblong, obtuse, hairy on the top. Munro in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxvi. 92; Brandis For. 
Flora 567. Bampusa Fauconert, Munro in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxvi. 95 (in part). BAMBUSA, 
Wall. Cat, 5030A. 
Lower Himalaya from the Jumna to Assam, Eastern Bengal. It is doubtful if this 
is really wild west of the Sarda, but it is very common jn villages and along roads 
and canals in Dehra Dún. In the Sikkim Hills it is found up to 5,000 ft. 
