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This species is extremely difficult of separation from B. Tulda, Roxb., when flowers 
are not available: the leaves and culm-sheaths agree very nearly, and it is only in 
flower or growing that the two can be distinguished. "The best distinction is that of the 
culms, which in В. nutans come singly from a creeping rootstock, while in В. Tulda 
they are from a central tuft, but even this is not a constant character, The spikelets 
are much stiffer and shorter and the bristles of the leaf-sheaths are usually spreading, 
while those of B. Tulda are generally erect and regular. lt is known, according to 
Munro, as Peechie in Sylhet and as Вий, mukial in Assam; as Майо in Sikkim, I 
have collected, and Mr. G. A. Gammie has sent, specimens from Sikkim under the names 
Malloo, таМ-бапз (Lepcha), and Mr. Gammie has also sent а variety with striped culms 
under the Lepcha name Pao-shi-ding-ying which I take to belong to this species. I also 
identify as this the following specimens sent by С. Mann from Assam:—/ofia makal 
(Assamese) from Sibsagar, Deobans (Assamese) from Kamrup, Wa-malang (Kuki) from 
North Cachar, Seringjai (Khasi) from Shillong; but I am by no means sure of the 
identification, as any of them might be В. Тима instead, though they seem to me to ђе 
more like B. nutans. After searching, during three years’ residence in Dehra Dún, for 
Bambusa Falconert, Munro, Trans. Linn. Soc. xxvi. 95, I have come to the conclusion that 
the hint given by Munro as to the flowers and by Brandis in For. Flora 568, as 
to the leaves, is probably the true state of the case, and that Munro's В. Falconeri 
simply consists of the flowers of В. nutans gathered by Falconer in September 1840 
with the leaves of Dendrocalamus Hamiltonii gathered by Falconer in 1839 and by 
Strachey and Winterbottom in Garhwal. Dendrocalamus Нат оп! is undoubtedly the 
large bamboo of the Din and of the villages of the Lower Garhwal Hills, for I have 
often found it in flower, and В. nutans is commonly grown with it in the Dún, so 
that the mistake is by no means improbable, and my view is certainly borne out by 
an examination of the specimens in Herbaria. I propose, therefore, to omit В. Fulconeri 
from consideration in this work. 
The culms of B. nutans are strong, straight and good, and much esteemed. In the 
Dehra Dún the villagers cultivate it by planting offsets, and the cut culms fetch good 
prices. It is a graceful species worth growing for ornament, and its culms being well 
apart, makes it easy to work for profit. It seems to flower only at long intervals, for 
in the Dn at any rate there is no record since 1840, but last year (1893) I found 
one mutilated clump bearing flowering branches at the base, and this year (1894) I have 
found one whole clump in flower, so it may be about to flower generally. 
PLATE No, 30.—Bambusa nutans, Wall. 1, leaf-branch; 2 & 3, parts of flower 
panicle—of natural size; 4 & 5, culm-sheaths from mid.stem and lower nodes—reduced to 
about 1; 6, leaf-sheath; 7, spikelet cluster with sterile and fertile spikelets ; 8, flowering 
glume; 9, palea; 10, lodicule; 11, anther; 12, ovary, style and stigmas; 13, rachilla— 
enlarged. (Nos. 4, 5, 6, from fresh Dehra Dún specimens, the rest from Falconer’s 
specimens.) ` | 
3. BAMBUSA TERES, Нат. 881; іп Wall. Cat. 50268. 
A large, thickly сезрНове bamboo. Culms dark green, 60 ft. high, 3 in. in dia- 
meter, smooth; nodes formed by а ring consisting of the bases of fallen sheaths; internodes 
20 in. long, чай 3 to 4 in. thick. Culm-sheaths 8 to 10 in. long, as much 
in breadth, nearly glabrous, hardly attenuate upwards, somewhat rounded at top; 
Ахх. Roy. Bor. Garp. Cancurta, Vor. УП. 
