INDIAN BAMBUSEZ; GAMBLE. 59 
but explosives would be of much effect. Cleghorn, quoting Buchanan's Journal iii. 961, 
says in respect to this: “In Hyder Alis time, the town of Bednore, in North-West 
“ Mysore, was defended by a deep trench filled with clumps of this bamboo," and 
remarks that in 1856 wheu he visited the place, he found some clumps still remaining 
(Forests and Gardens of South India, p. 207). It is often badly attacked by a small 
Hemipterous insect recently described as Oregma bambuse, which exudes drops of sticky 
liquid and blackens the surfaces of the leases. 
Ррате No. 48.—Bambusa arundinacea, Willd. 1, leaf-branch; 2, part of flower- 
panicle—of natural size; 3, top of young shoot; 4, culm-sheath of lower internode— 
reduced ; 9, leaf-sheath; 6, thorns; 7, spikelet; 8, flowering glume; 9, palea; 10, lodi- 
cules; 11, anther; 12, ovary, style and stigmas; 13 & 14, caryopsis; 15, the same 
enveloped in glume and palea; 16, part of rachis of var. orientalis—enlarged. (Nos. 3, 4 
from Kurz’ drawings; No. 16 from Wight’s specimen; No. 5 from a fresh Diin specimen; 
the rest from my own Circar collections.) 
SPECIES OF WHICH THE FLOWERS ARE NOT KNOWN. 
21. BAMBUSA AURICULATA, Kurz іп Journ. As. Soc. Deng. xxxix. (1870), 86. 
An evergreen, arboreous, tufted bamboo. Culms 39 to 50 ft. high, 2 to 25 in. 
in diameter, glossy green, yellow when old, seurfy when young, branches curving 
downwards; nodes hardly thickened ; internodes 18 to 30 in. long, the lower ones shorter, 
walls thick. Cudm-sheaths 10 to 12 іп. long, 9 to 10 in. broad at base, attenuate 
upwards, and сопуехју truncate at 4 in. in breadth, thickly black-ciliate on the margins, 
the back covered with appressed black or tawny bristles, except for a vacant patch 
down the middle; imperfect blade 6 to 9 іл. long, triangular acute from а base 
about 4 in. broad, which is slightly rounded, and then decurrent on the sheath to 
form а rounded naked auriele which is green when fresh; striate on both sides, some- 
what hairy within, densely appressed-hairy without in two longitudinal streaks which 
leave the middle line free; ligule "2 in. broad, sharply dentate. Leaves lanceolate or 
linear-lanceolate, 8 to 16 in. long, 1 to 2-5 in. broad, rounded or attenuate at the base 
into a short "1 to :3 in. long petiole; ending above іп a long twisted scabrous point ; 
smooth above,- except the scabrous points on marginal veins; minutely puberulous 
beneath when young, afterwards glabrous or roughish, often glaucous; one or both edges 
scabrous; main veins yellow, shining, prominent, secondary veins 8 to 12, intermediate 
6 to 7, pellucid glands between, which give the appearance of transverse veinlets when 
dry; leaf-sheaths smooth, faintly striate, polished, hairy at first, somewhat keeled, 
ending in a smooth callus, and a small thick rounded glossy naked auricle which is 
often dark in colour. Inflorescence, &c., unknown. ^ GiGANTOCHLOA AURICULATA, Kurz For. 
Рога Burma i. 557. 
Assam, Chittagong and Burma. Collected by Tara Kisor Gupta for С. Mann 
in Sylhet, by Brandis and Kurz and others in Burma. 
This species is included by Munro under Bambusa vulgaris, but it is, as correctly 
pointed out by Kurz, quite distinct, and this is clearly seen by an inspection of the 
handsome clumps of both species in the Royal Botanic Garden of Calcutta. The 
round naked auricles of the culm-sheaths and leaves and the peculiar arrangement 
of the bristles in patches on the sides of the culms-sheaths and of their imperfect blades, 
