80 ANNALS OF THE ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN, CALCUTTA. 
is small, with narrow, very hard, nearly solid culms, small often hairy culm-sheaths, 
and short leaves; while in Burma, in Bengal, and in moister localities in South India, 
the culms are much larger, the culm-sheaths longer and stouter, and the leaves longer. 
It is very easily grown either from seed ог from root offsets, and the culms take 
5 years to form clumps in favourable localities. On its growth and cultivation, Colonel 
Doveton's excellent paper in ‘Indian Forester) vol. ix, p. 529, may be consulted. The 
following account of its uses in the Central Provinces (and indeed the remarks apply 
really to all places in India when it is the principal species) is worth quoting from 
that paper:—‘ This bamboo is used for rafters and battens, spear and lance-shafts, 
* walking sticks, whip handles, stakes to support sugarcane, for the manufacture of 
* small mats used like slates in roofing, mats for floors, covers of carts, sieves, hand 
*punkahs, umbrellas, light chairs and sofas, vessels for holding grease and oil, bows, 
“arrows and cordage, and for the manufacture of many other minor articles. It is 
“also used for the buoyage of heavy timbers in rafting, and when converted into 
“charcoal, is in request for the finer smith's work. Dry stems are also used for 
*torches, and the production of fire by friction. The leaves are much sought after 
“as food for buffaloes and are fairly good fodder for horses. The seed is used іп 
*times of famine as food grain, and while wheat sold at 12 seers for the rupee, 
* bamboo seed sold at from 40 to 50 seers. It will probably come into use for the 
* consolidation and support of embankments.” 
Puate No. 68.—Dendrocalamus strictus, Nees; the larger leaf- and  flower-bearing 
variety. 1, leaf-branch; 2, part of flower-panicle,—of natural size; 3, culm-sheath— 
reduced to about +; 4, spikelet ; 5, flowering glume; 6, palea ; 7, anther ; 8, ovary and 
style; 9, 10 caryopsis ; 11 leaf-sheath—en/arged. (1 to 9 from a specimen gathered by 
myself in the Northern Circars, 10, 11 from Dehra Dún specimens.) 
Puare No. 69.—Dendrocalamus strictus, Nees; the smaller leaf- and flower-bearing 
variety of the Deccan and Carnatic. 1, leaf-branch ; 2, part of flower-panicle—of natural 
size; З, culm-sheath—reduced ; 4, spikelet—enlarged (all from my Madras specimens); A у 
spikelet of the variety (var. Prainiana) from Table Island, Great Cocos ; characterized by 
smaller spikelets, fewer flowers and nearly glabrous flowering glumes. 
Note.—(The excellent figure by Fitch in Brandis’ Forest Flora shows almost better 
than either of these two Plates the most usual form and size of the flower-heads. 
Тһе fig. 80 of Roxburgh's Coromandel Plants is a poor one, but represents, in my 
opinion, this species and not, as Munro says, Ozylenanthera Thwaitesii. The spikelet 
clearly shows separate and not monadelphous stamens.) 
2. DENDROCALAMUS SERICEUS, Munro in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxvi. 148. 
A densely tufted bamboo with strong culms resembling those of D. strictus, Culm- 
sheaths. striate, long-ciliate on the edges, covered with stiff bristles with swollen bases ; 
imperfect blade short, triangular, acute. Leaves lanceolate, long acuminate, 5 to 15 in. 
long, “7 to 1 in. broad, usually rounded at the base into a longish petiole; hairy or 
hispid above, hairy beneath, scabrous on the edges; point long, twisted; main vein 
prominent beneath, shining, secondary veins 6 or 7 pairs, intermediate about 7 ; leaf- 
 sheaths striate, somewhat keeled, strigosely hairy in lines down the sides, ending in a 
ciliate truncate callus; ligule narrow, fimbriate, serrate, Inflorescence a large panicle 
