42 ANNALS OF THE ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN, CALCUTTA. 
PrarE No. 38.—Bambusa nana, Roxb, 1, leaf-branch; 2, part of flower-panicle; 
3 & 4, culm-sheaths—of natural size; 5 & 6, spikelet ; 7, flowering glume; 8, palea; 
9, lodicules; 10, anther; 11, ovary and stigmas; 12, caryopsis—enlarged. (No.4 from 
Kurz picture in the Herbarium of the Royal Botanic Garden, Calcutta, the rest from 
my own or Kurz specimens.) 
11. ЗВамвова Вагсоол, Rorb. Hort. Deng. 95 (1814). 
A tall, stout, cæspitose bamboo. Culms dull greyish-green, 50 to 70 ft. high, 3 to 6 
in. in diameter, branched from the base, the lower nodes giving off leafless, hard 
branchlets ; nodes swollen, with a whitish ring above them, hairy below; internodes 
8 to 18 in. long, walls thick. Culm-sheaths of two descriptions; lower ones short and 
broad, densely appressed-hairy on the upper surface, ciliate on the edges and on the 
rounded top; imperfect blade short, triangular, decurrent into short, fringed auricles ; 
upper ones 10 to 14 in. long, 8 to 10 in. broad, almost glabrous, striate, truncate above, 
ciliate on the edges; imperfect blade 6 to 8 in. long, 3 to 4 in. broad, sharp at the 
apex and with recurved margins, closely hairy below, striate above, rounded at the 
base, and then again decurrent on the sheath in а narrow band bearing a few long ciliate 
hairs; Пуше 79 to *3 in. broad, dentate. Leaves oblong-lanceolate, 6 to 12 in. long, 1 to 
2 in. broad; rounded or subcordate at the base into a short petiole; the apex with a 
twisted, scabrous, setaceous point; glabrous above, pale beneath and hairy when young, 
especially below; scabrous-ciliate on both edges; main vein prominent, shining beneath, 
secondary veins 7 to 11, intermediate 6 or 7, many pellucid glands which often give 
the appearance of prominent transverse veinlets on the lower surface ; /eaf-sheath striate, 
appressed-white-hairy, truncate above with a narrow callus, and sometimes furnished 
with a very few stiff waved deciduous bristles; ligule membranous, broadly triangular. 
Inflorescence а large compound panicle, bearing spieate branches with bracteate heads of 
spikelets ; rachis pubescent or scurfy, striate, swollen above, Spikelets ovoid, lanceolate, 
flattened, *3 to "6 in. long, 2 to :3 in. broad, with 0 to 2 empty glumes, then 
4 to 6 hermaphrodite flowers, then a terminal imperfect flower on а short flattened 
rachilla ; empty glumes ovate-acute many-nerved; flowering glumes similar but larger and 
ciliate on the edges; palea as long as flowering glume, ovate-acute, 2-keeled, long 
ciliate on the keels, indistinctly veined. Lodicules 3, ovate or obovate, 3- to 5-nerved, 
fimbriate on the edges. Stamens hardly exserted, anthers glabrous, the connective ending | 
in a short, dark, sometimes hairy point. Ovary broadly ovoid, acuminate, hairy, with a 
hairy style branching into three long plumose stigmas. Caryopsis not seen.  Rozb. 
РІ. Ind. її. 196: Icon, ined. 1402; Munro in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxvi. 100; Brandis 
For. Flora 967. Bampusa capensis, Ruprecht Bamb. 54, tab. xiii. fig. 54; Steudel Syn. 
330. В. vASARIA, Herb, Нат. in Wali. Cat. 5025. Denprocatamus Вапсоод, Voigt 
Hort. Sub. Cale. 718. 
Assam, Lower Bengal and Bihar extending to Goruckpore. Cultivated at the 
Cape of Good Hope, and not uncommon in gardens there. | | 
This well-marked bamboo is recognized by the large culm-sheaths which resemble 
those of Dendrocalamus Hamiltoni, by tne long leafless shoots given off from the lower 
nodes, by the leaves with rounded bases and hairy sheaths, the flattened soft spikelets 
and long stigmas. It is probably the best and strongest species for building purposes, 
and is greatly esteemed iu Caleutta, but it is not kakama, and would hardly be chosen 
