4+ ANNALS OF THE ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN, CALCUTTA. 
Plant. Spec. 198 [1821] (excl. Syn. Roem. and Sch. Syst. Veg. 1837 according to Munro); 
Rupr. Bamb. 47, tab. xi. fig. 47; Steudel Syn. 329; Griseb. Fl. Вт. W. Ind. 528; Му. 
Fl. Ind. Bat. Ші. 417; Dalz. and Gibs. Bomb. Flora 299; Munro in Trans. Linn, Soc. xxvi. 
106; Beddome Flora Sylv. cexxxii; Brandis For. Flora 568; Kurz For. Fl. Burma її, 551 
(in analysis): Ind. Forester i. 339; Rivière Les bambous 191, figs. 18, 19. Вамвоза THovarsn, 
Kunth Not. Gen. Bambusa in Journ. de Phys. 148 (1822); Syn. Pl. Ж ит. 1. 252 :.Кер. 
Gram, i. 323 % 73, 74: Enum. 431: Suppl. 856; Rupr. Bamb. 48, tab. xi. fig. 48; 
Steudel Syn. 399 ; Desf. Cat. 92 (1829); Schultes Syst. Veg. vii. 1847; Nees m Linn. 466; 
Taw. Enum. РІ. Zeyl. 875; C. P. 3252. BAMBUSA SURINAMENSIS, Rupr. Ватб. 49, tab. xi. 
fig. 49; Steudel Syn. 329. Вамвова Srepert, Griseb. Fl. Br. W. Ind. 928. Вамвова HUMILIS, 
Reich. MS. (teste Rupr. Ват. 50). BAMBUSA ARUNDINACEA, Moon Cat. 26; Ай. Hort. 
Kew. Ed. ii, 316. Вамвоза, Wall. Cut. 5084. BAMBUSA STRIATA, Loddiges ; Munro т 
Trans. Linn. Soc. xxvi. 121; Curtis Bot. Mag. xxx. 1874, %. 6079 (vaR. STRIATA). 
Nasrus Тногаввп, Spr. Syst. Veg. ii. (1825) 113. 
Cultivated and run wild over the warmer parts of India, Burma, Мајауа, and 
Ceylon. Its original country is uncertain ; but 16 is found in Java and the Moluccas 
generally, in Mauritius, Bourbon, Madagascar, the Cape, St. Helena, and Algeria, the 
West Indian Islands, Mexico, Central and South America ; and it is cultivated in 
most tropieal gardens and in hothouses in Europe, as in the Royal Gardens at Kew 
and the Glasnevin Gardens at Dublin. The “Index Kewensis” mentions Mexico as its 
indigenous locality, and Kunth (Rev. Gram.) gives Madagascar and Bourbon. Obtained 
in flower by Thwaites (Ceylon) in 1863; by E. G. Chester (Chittagong) in 1879; by 
Hooker (Chittagong) in 1851; by King (Calcutta Botanic Garden) in 1890; by 
Ridley (Singapore Garden) in 1892; and by others without date given. 
Var. striata is rather smaller in size, has the culms striped with yellow and 
green, the branchlets yellow, and the leaves somewhat smaller and paler, 
otherwise it does not appear to differ from the ordinary green kind. It 
appears to come from China and Japan, and is probably the result of 
cultivation. 
Though not indigenous, this bamboo is so common in India that any work which 
proposed to assist in identifying species would be incomplete without reference to it. 
Dalzell and Gibson refer to it as if it were wild, though there is some doubt about 
the vernacular name Kulluk given by them, for all the specimens I have received 
under that name have proved tobe B. arundinacea. It is cultivated in the Poona and 
Satara districts, but not in the south, according to Talbot, In Bengal it is known 
as Basini or bansini, that is, ‘female bamboo’ (see Babu Protapa Chandra Ghose in 
Journ. Agri.-Hortl. Soc. Calcutta, Vol. VIIN.S., p. ха). It is common іп Chittagong 
and there known as Виа. Specimens received from Khorda, Orissa, from Babu Sree 
Dhur Chakravarti, bear the name JSundrogai. In Ceylon it is called Una, and used 
for building purposes. According to Kurz, the Malays distinguish four varieties according 
to the colour of the culms and branches, viz.— 
Var. 1. Culms and branches green— Hower hedyoo, hower gullies, ampel. 
__„ 2. Culms yellow or occasionally striped—Hower konneng, koonieng, 
„ 9. Culms yellow and green striped—Hower sehah, kooda, 
_ » 4. Culms green, blo/ched with black when old— Тооѓоо. 
