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MONOGRAPH OF THE BAMBUSACE^E 



Thorn 



ion on Singalelah, a mountain on the Islumbo pass, between Eastern Nepal and 

 Sikkim, at an elevation of 11,000 feet. The distribution of many of these Arundinarim 

 seems to be limited more by elevation than by any other cause. 



At the same time I 



on Id observe that at least three or four species appear to be peculiar to Ceyl 



to 



N 



eili^lK Tries, and one or two to Hong Kong. Jameson mentions that Chusqaea 

 arista ta, Munro, makes its first appearance at 13,000 feet elevation on the eastern chain of 

 the Andes, and that at 15,000 feet it completely covers the whole surface, forming what 

 the natives call a " Carizal," impenetrable to man or beast, and continuing upwards to 

 nearly the limits of perpetual snow. It is certainly very curious that a tessellated Chus- 



should attain this great elevation on the Andes, and a 



tessellated Arundinar 



1 1 nea 



should occur nearly as high in the Himalayas. 



The whole of the eight genera of the berry-bearing Bamboos are to be found only 

 in the East, some species of the genera Cephalostachyum, Dendrocalamus, and JPseu- 

 dosfi'c/it/um attaining considerable elevations. Of true Bamboos, Guadua (if it is a good 



genus) is confined entirely to Amer 



and the whole of the other species of this 



division, with the sole exception mentioned above of Bambusa vulgaris, are confined to 

 Africa and the East. I have only seen one uncultivated Bamboo from Africa in ilower ; 



in Angola by Dr. Welwitsch, and is most probably the same as 



and that 



found 



Pximlmsa abyssimca of Bichard 



Buprecht 



Buroliell's herbar 



tainly describes Bambusa cape a sis, and 



contains one good specimen in flower; but I believe this is a 



cultivated plant, probably introduced from India, called Bambusa vulgaris hy Nees, and 

 identical with Bambusa Bulcooa of Roxburgh. I have also seen some leaves of a species 

 of Arurnlinaria from the Cape, called by Nees Nastus tessellatus. Elacourt mentions 



that 



whole province of Madagascar is 



called Bulu 



prevalent ther 



that four very beautiful different kinds of Bamboo 



ailed Galembulu, from a species of Bamboo 

 and Ellis also, in his book on Madagascar, says 



ele-ance of their growth, to the beauty of the scenery in that island 

 the kindness of M. Brongniart, been permitted to exa 



tribute much, by the extreme 



I have, through 



» 



I lad 



gascar, belonging to the Museum 



the Bamboos collected 



in 

 d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris, containing 



flowering specimens of three species, which are, strange to say, all berry 



Bamboos 



One of them is marked 



r> 



Bulu referred to by Elacourt 



Voulou of the nativ 



and is probably the same 



Kunth. Another is a ne^ 

 Himalaya and Tenasserim 



It is Beesha ? capitata, Munro, Nastus cap* lotus of 



species of ■.Cephalostachyum, a genus found in the Easter 



a slender one which I had previously 



And the third is 



ScUzostaekyum parvifolium, from a specimen collected by Gerrard 



plant described by Ellis 



.. 



an 



thick as a quill, growing 9 to 10 feet Ion 



elegant slender 



It is probably 



creeper, with a stem 



ely 



tree to tree alongside of the roads 

 which Bory describes as covering 

 island, also Melocam 

 in Ceylon and India 



if 

 & 



and hanging in most elega nt festoons from 



Eastern Archipelago 



gigcmtea, "WalliohV 



I have seen from the Mauritius Nastus borboaic 

 vast extent of country in the higher portions of the 



Numerous species are found 



and the islands of the 

 giganteus (Bambusa 



bambusohles and Bambusa vulg 

 ind the most gigantic of all in T 



• A specimen of the stem of Deudrocalam. 



in the British Museum, received from Pulo Geum, measures 2 



