INDIAN BAMBUSEJE ; GAMBLE. 45 
Kurz also speaks of it as wild in Java as well as cultivated. There is a long 
account of it in Rivières ‘Les Bambous’ with excellent pictures of the rhizome and 
culm-sheath, The part of India in which this species is most common and most. 
commonly cultivated is probably the Concan, whence specimens have been received. 
I also identify with this the Bulo pan collected by L. Wray Jr. in Perak (No. 141), 
also the Wanet (Burmese) sent from Pegu by P. J. Carter and from Tenasserim by 
W. T. McHarg. The striped variety is very ornamental, and deserves а wider 
cultivation in gardens in India. At the Saharanpur Botanic Garden it is regularly 
propagated both by cuttings and by layers. "Гһеге is also another variety, a portion 
of the culm of which is figured by Kurz in Jnd. Forester, vol. i, in which the 
internodes are swollen into a flask shape. 
Prate Ко. 40.—Bambusa vulgaris, Schr. 1, leaf-branch; 2, part of flowering 
branch; 8, portion of young culm—of natural size; 4, culm-sheath (var. sériata)— 
reduced to about +; 5, young branch (var. síríata)—of natural size; 6, leaf-sheath ; 
7, Spikelet ; 8, empty glume; 9, flowering glume; 10, palea; 11, lodicule; 12, anther 
13, ovary with style and stigmas—en/arged (all from Calcutta Botanic Garden 
specimens).* | 
13, Вамвова Віхонамі, n. sp. Gamble. 
A wiry bamboo. Culms not known. eaves linear or linear-lanceolate, 3 to 6 in. 
long, "4 to '6 in. broad; rounded at the base into a very short, scarcely "05 to '1 
in. long petiole; ending above in a long, acuminate, twisted tip which is not scabrous; 
smooth on both sides; main vein slender, secondary veins 5 to 6 pairs, intermediate 
7; leaf-sheaths smooth, striate, ending in a narrow callus and furnished with a few 
white stiff cilie at the somewhat produced mouth; ligule very short. Inflorescence a 
short terminal leafy panicle bearing loose heads of few (2—4) spikelets; rachis short, 
joints sometimes geniculate, clavate. Spikelets *5 to “б in. long with 1 to 2 empty 
glumes, 5 to 6 fertile flowers and 1 terminal imperfect one, much flattened, the flowers 
spreading, distichous ; rachille broad-clavate, flexuose, visible; empty glumes striate, 
mucronate ; flowering glume ovate-acute, smooth, mucronate, many nerved ; palea as long 
as flowering glume or, longer, conspicuous, blunt, long-white-fringed on the keels. 
Lodicules rounded, obtuse, long-ciliate on the upper margins, one edge hardened, 3- to 
5-nerved. Stamens partly exserted ; anthers linear, blunt or with a single hair at the 
apex. Ovary elongate, narrow, hairy above, style very speedily divided into 3 short 
white plumose stigmas. Caryopsis linear-oblong, beaked, furrowed on one side, hairy 
on the beak. | 
Lower Burma: received through Major Bingham, Conservator of Forests іп 
Tenasserim, from the Nyaungdaungle forest. | 
Very little is known of this species, which seems not to differ very greatly from 
the Chinese В. flexuosa, Munro. Its name is Ngachatwa (Burmese). 
Ртлте No. 41.—Bambusa Binghami, Gamble. 1, leaf-branch ; 2, flowering branch-— 
of natural size; 3, spikelet ; 4, flowering glume; 5, palea; 6, lodicules; 7, anther ; 
8, ovary and ‘stigmas; 9, cary opsis—endarged. 
ж Plates 73 and 74 of Kunth’s ‘ Revisio Graminum, ” vol. i, are also good. 
