INDIAN ВАМВОЗЕЖ; GAMBLE. 7 
keels and 2-nerved between them, uppermost not keeled, often nearly glabrous, 6 to 
8-пегуей. Stamens long-exserted, filaments fine; anthers yellow, shortly apiculate. Ovary 
turbinate, stalked, hairy above and surmounted by a long style ending in a purple 
feathery séyima, Caryopsis brown, shining, ovoid to sub-globose, "3 in. long, hairy above, 
beaked with the persistent base of the style, pericarp coriaceous. Mig. Fl. Ind. Bat. iii. 
421; Munro in Trans. Linn, бос. xxvi. 147; Beddome Fl. Sylv. сеххху. t. ссехху; 
Brandis Por. Flora 569, t. 70; Кит For. Fl. Burma іі. 558, Ind, Forester i. 346; Voigt 
Hort, Sub. Cale. 718. Вамвов srricra, Roxb. Согот. Pl. i. 58, t. 80. BAMBUSA STRICTA, 
02$. Hort. Beng. 25, Fl. Ind. п. 193; Kunth in Journ. de Phys. (1822) 148, Enum. 431; 
Schultes Syst. Veg. vii. 1339; Ruprecht Ватђ. 56, tab. xii, fig. 56; Steudel Syn. 330; Dalz. 
and Gibs. Bomb. Fi 299. BAMBUSA VERTICILLATA, Rottler (according to Munro). BAMBUSA 
PUBESCENS, Lodd. in Lindl. Penny Cycl. iii. 857 (1835). ВамвовА TANGA, Buch.-Ham. in 
Wall, Cat. 50384. 
Dry hills throughout India and Burma. It is found to the north in the Punjab 
Salt Range, and extends down along the base of the Himalaya and in the Siwalik 
Range to Nepal, but does not occur in Sikkim orin the Assam Valley. It is conimon 
throughout the hills of the Eastern and Western Gháts and of Central and South India, 
ascending to 3,000 ft., and is found in the Eng and drier upper mixed forests throughout 
Burma, but is absent from Ceylon. Southwards, it is said to extend to Singapore and 
Java (Büse and Munro) In the valleys of Burma and South India it reaches a large 
size with hollow culms, longer leaves and culm sheaths; but in the dry Пессап hills 
and in the Siwaliks it is small and has nearly solid culms, small leaves and sheaths, 
It has been found in an interesting, nearly glabrous-flowered, variety, in the Great Cocos 
Islands by Dr. D. Prain (Voyage of the * Investigator"). 
This is the most common and most widely spread and most universally used of 
the Indian bamboos, and is commonly known as the ‘male bamboo.’ Its culms 
are employed by the natives for all purposes of building and furniture, for mats, 
baskets, sticks and other purposes. It furnishes, when solid culms are procurable, 
the best material for lance shafts, In Burma, when large culms are obtainable, 
they are much in request for masts for native boats. It flowers gregariously over 
large areas, as it did in the Central Provinces in 1865; in Garhwal in 1879; 
in Oudh in 1880; in Kurnool in 1887; in the Golgonda Hills in 1890, and in 
North Arcot in 1891; but it may be found flowering sporadically, a few clumps at a 
time, almost every year, in any locality, and such clumps then usually die off. These 
flowerings, however, do not produce as much good seed as when the gregarious flowering 
takes place. The flowers appear in the cold season between November and April, the 
seed ripening in June. The leaves fall in February or March, and the young new 
ones appear in April. The young culms are rather late, usually beginning to appear 
in July some time after the rains begin. It is locally known in North India as Bans 
and Bans kaban; it is Karail (Bengali), Salia bans (Uriya), the Telugu Sadanapa Vedru 
or kauka; the Burmese Myinwa. Dalzell and Gibson give the Bombay names ‘ Bans’ 
and ‘ Oodha,’ but a series of specimens received from Bombay from Messrs. Wroughton, 
Millett, Osmaston, Fisher, Betham, show Oodha to be Bambusa Ritcheyi (Ozytenanthera 
monostigma), and that this species is called Més (Роопа), Manwel, bándhi (Thana), Ката 
wán (Panch Mahals). In size of culm and in the size and characters of the culm- 
sheaths, leaves and spikelet heads it is most variable. On dry hill slopes in the 
Siwaliks, on the rocky hills of Central India (e.g, Mount Abu) and the Deccan, it 
