INDIAN ВАМВОЗЕЖ; GAMBLE. 85 
"5 in. thick; culm-sheaths long and stiff, variable in size, those of lower part of large 
stems 16 to 18 in. long, about 8 in. broad, glabrous, shining within, rough and either 
glabrous or with scanty patches of brown stiff appressed hairs without, truncate at top, 
and furnished on either side with a small glabrous triangular point; imperfect blade about 
2 as broad at the base as the top of the sheath, often 12 in. long, narrow, ovate-lanceo- 
late, sides incurved, glabrous without, but with many thick black sharp hairs at the base 
within; ligule 2 in. broad, smooth, entire. Leaves variable, small on side branches, but 
on new shoots reaching 15 in. long and 95 in. broad, usually unequal-sided, rounded 
at the base into a short thick petiole, above broadly lanceolate and cuspidate, acuminate 
at the tip which is scabrous and twisted, smooth above, rough beneath, finely serrate at 
the edges; main vein narrow, raised, secondary уешв 6 to 17 pairs, fairly prominent, 
number on either side sometimes unequal, intermediate 5 to 7, having pellucid dots 
between which form cross bars resembling transverse veinlets when dry; /ea/-sheaths 
glabrous above, furnished below with white appressed stiff hairs, somewhat keeled below 
the shining callus, produced at the mouth to meet the ligule, which is broad and usually 
elongate and obliquely truncate or jagged. Inflorescence a huge, much-branched panicle 
with many whorls of branchlets, bearing half-verticellate semi-globular heads of purple 
flowers, supported by rounded scarious bracts; rachis-joints 1 in. or less long, thick, 
fistular, scabrous and white-pruinose, especially below the swoollen nodes, furrowed on 
one side; heads variable, from "5 in. up to 15 in. in diameter, spikelets chiefly fertile. 
Spikelets purple, oval, depressed, “4 in. long, glabrous; empty glumes usually two, short, 
rounded, nerved; flowers 2 to 4, usually all fertile; flowering glume broad, orbicular, 
somewhat recurved, ciliate on the edges; palea of lower flowers as long as flowering 
glumes, 2-keeled, ciliate on the keels and bifid at the acute apex, 2-nerved on the back, 
that of last flower not keeled, hairy at the acute apex only, many-nerved. Stamens 
long, exserted, pendulous; anthers purple, the connective produced into а long, black, 
hairy, twisted point. Ovary sub-orbicular, hairy, with a long hairy style and trifid 
plumose stigma, Сатуор518 broadly ovoid, rounded at the base, beaked with the indurated 
style, hairy or glabrous above, glabrous below, embryo visible. Munro іп Trans Linn. 
Soc. xxvi. 151; Brandis For. Flora 570. BAMBUSA MoNoGYwNa, Grifith Notule, p. 63, Icon. 2, 
BAMBUSA MAXIMA, Buch.-Ham. in Wall. Cat. 5039. | Вамвоза F'ALCONEERI, Munro in Trans. 
Linn. Кос. xxvi. 95 (part). г 
North-East Himalaya, Assam Valley, Khasia Hills, Sylhet, extending eastwards to 
Upper Burma, and westwards to the Sutlej, though doubtfully indigenous beyond 
m is the common bamboo of the Darjeeling Hills and Тега, of the Duars and 
the Assam Valley, and is in universal employment for building and basket and mat 
work, though as a building bamboo its comparative sofinoss and thin walls make it 
inferior to such species as Bambusa Tulda and Balcooa. It is largely grown in Dehra 
Dún, and is met, with here and there in the hills of Garhwal and Jaunsar, but always 
Abe villages and never in forest, so it can hardly be indigenous. és. ав ваув 
that it is ‘common along banks of streams in evergreen and moist forest’ in Katha 
and Bhamo, where it is locally known as ‘ Wabo-myetsangy?? (Burm.) Abdul Huk, 
collector, has sent it from the Ruby Mines. In the Dehra Dún and Lower North- 
West Himalaya it is called Chye. In Darjeeling it is known by the names of Tama 
(Хер.) and Рао (Lepcha); in Assam as Kokwa and Pecha (Bengali), Fonay (Mikir), and 
ri d (Garo). The young shoots are eaten as a vegetable. The inner layer of the 
