2 ANNALS OF THE ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN, CALCUTTA. 
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with green and even red, variable in shape and size, but running up to 12 to 15 in. in 
length and 9 to 12 in. in breadth, striate, somewhat rounded at the top and plaited on the 
edges, thickly ciliate with golden hairs when young, otherwise glabrous; imperfect blade 
triangular, up to 4 in. long, sharply pointed, concave with involute margins, greenish- 
yellow when young, glabrous without, densely clothed within with a thick purple or 
brown or black felt of bristly hairs, the margins decurrent on the sheath, wavy, plaited, 
long and thickly ciliated, but hardly auricled; ligule narrow, entire, or fringed with whitish 
hairs. Leaves linear-lanceolate or linear, very variable in size, up to 7 to 8 m. long and 
1 in. broad, rounded at the base into a short, often swollen, *1 in. petiole; ending above | 
in a sharp stiff point; glabrous above except for long hairs near the base, glabrous ог 
puberulous beneath; scabrous on one or both margins, and ciliate towards the base; 
main vein narrow, pale, secondary .veins 4 to 6, intermediate 7 to 9, transverse veinlets 
none, but regular pellucid glands at intervals; Jeafsheath striate, glabrous or slightly 
pubescent, ending in a thick, often ciliate, callus and a short auricle furnished with a few 
stiff, curved, white, deciduous bristles, edges ciliate; ligule short. Inflorescence an enormous 
panicle, often formed by а whole eulm, branchlets spicate with loose clusters of about 5 
pale spikelets; rachis variable, usually stiff, shining, smooth, sometimes dull, striate, 
occasionally angular and soft, almost fistular. Spikelets lanceolate, aeute, *5 to 1 in. long, 
'2 in. broad, sessile, glabrous except for the prominent ciliate edges of the palea, consist- 
ing of 2, 1 or no empty glumes, then 3 to 7 flowers, the lower ones hermaphrodite, the 
upper male only, finally one to three imperfect flowers ; empty and flowering glumes ovate- 
lanceolate, acute or mucronate, many-nerved, glabrous, *2 to "3 in. long; palea slightly longer, 
2-keeled, ciliate on the keels, sub-acute. Lodicules three, small, hyaline, ovate, fimbriate on 
the edges, one usually longer and more acute, 1- to 3-nerved. Stamens exserted, drooping, 
filaments slender; anthers yellow, obtuse, sometimes with an apiculate bristle. Ovary elli ptic- 
oblong, glabrous except at the tip; siyle short, glabrous, soon dividing into 3 long plumose 
stigmas. Caryopsis oblong, “2 to °З in. long, smooth, grooved on one side, ending in a short 
beak formed by the base of the style, always surrounded by the persistent glume and 
palea, embryo conspicuous. Roxb. богот. Pl. і. 56, t. 79; Ногі. Beng. 95 (1814); Fl. Tad. 
ii. 191; Poir. Enc. үш. 701; Spreng. Syst. Veg. її. 119; Link Hort, Berol. i. 249; Schultes 
Syst. Veg. vii. П. 1840; Kunth Enum. 431; Graham Bombay Cat. 939 (1839); Рай. and 
Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 299; Ruprecht Bamb. 51, tab. xiii. fig. 50; Munro in Trans. Linn. Soc. 
xxvi. 103; Brandis For. Flora 564; Beddome Flora Sylv. cexxxi. t. сеххі.; Kurz For. Pl. 
Burma ц. 554; Thwaites Enum. Pl. Zeyl. 315; Voigt Hort. Sub. Cale. 7 19; Hb. Heyne Wall. 
Cat. 50234. ВАМВОВА SPINOSA, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 25; Е. Ind. ii. 198; Buch.-Ham. in Trans. 
Linn, Soc. xiii. (1822) 480, Wall. Сай, 5024; Nees in Linn, ix. ( 1834) 475; Spreng. Syst. 
Veg. п. 112; Rupr. Bamb. 52 tab. xii. fig. 52, tab. xii. fz. 52; Munro in Trans. Linn. 
Soc. xxvi 104; Beddome Flora Sylv. cexxxi; Brandis For. Рога 566; Steudel Syn, 329 ; 
Benth. in Fl. Hongk, 434; Voigt Hort, Sub. Cale. 719. Вамвова ORIENTALIS, Nees in Linn. 
ix. (1834) 475; Rupr. Bamb. 52, tab. xiii. fig. 91; Munro in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxvi. 105; 
Beddome Flora Sylv. cexxxi. BawBusA Arunpo, Hè. Klein ex Nees in Linnea ix. 471; 
Rupr, Bamb. 53 iab. xui. Лу. 53; Wight ex Steud. Nom. ей. IL i. 183. BAMBUSA 
Neestana, Arn. ex Munro in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxvi. 103. BAMBUSA PUNGENS, Blanco 
И. Filip. ed. I. 270. Вамвов ARUNDINACEA, Retz Obs. v. 94 (1789); Pers. Syn. i. 393. 
Авохро Вамвов, Linn. Sp. Pl. 81; Пу, Rheede Hort. Mal. i. 95, tab. xvi. 
| Throughout India, Burma and Ceylon, except in the Himalaya and Sub-Himalayan 
region and the valleys of the Ganges and Indus. It is scarce in the Central Provinces, 
