10 COLONEL MUNRO'S MONOGRAPH OF THE BAMBUSACE^ 



known to the Lepchas by different names, and that in Khasiya the natives enumerate 

 fourteen different kinds, the names of which are detailed at p. 268 of the second volume 

 of the * Himalayan Journals.' Most of these I have been able to identify with scientific 

 names. With such careful observers as Hooker and Thomson these native names are 

 of great value ; but apparently " non cuique datum" with similar care and facility to 

 express native sounds in European languages. 



A large number of Bamboos are now in cultivation, and perhaps twenty species at 

 Kew alone. I am informed there are at least fifty in Paris. Few of these, perhaps of 

 Arundinaria only, are hardy in England, or even in the warmer parts of Ireland. Dr. 

 Moore mentions, in the 'Treasury of Botany,' "that several brakes of Arundinaria 

 falcata were planted in the county of Cork, in 1848, and that, ' in ten years, the canes 

 had reached a height of from 16 to 20 feet, being about a foot in circumference at the 

 base. The joints of the stems were nearly of equal growth, and owing to this regularity 

 presented a curious appearance, to those particularly who had not seen tropical vegeta- 

 tion." A fine plant of Guadua latifolia is stated to be growing in the Botanical 

 Gardens at Berlin. 



There is a specimen preserved in the British Museum of Bambusa vulgaris, which is 

 stated to have grown forty feet in forty days at Chats worth, the noble seat of the Duke 

 of Devonshire. 



I have throughout this paper made considerable use of Ruprecht's excellent memoir 

 on Bambuseas in the Russian 'Transactions' already referred to, but have in all cases 

 marked with " " any paragraphs which I have copied verbatim. 



BAMBUSACE^ 



M'onographice descriptce Auctore Colonel William Munro. 



Bahwjsaob*, Kunth in Mem. clu Mus. xi. 75 (1815) ■ Roem. et Sell. Syst. Veg. ii 850 (1817) ; Link 



Nat 



) 



Bat. ii. 284 (1866). Bambuse^ Nees in Agrc-st. Bras. 520 (1829); in Linnaea ix. 101 (1884) ; 



Nat. Syst. 2nda edit. 383 (1836) ; in Fl. Afr 



Nat 



Ruprecht in Act. 

 sinea. A-iardl 



153 (fide Nees) Festucacea, Subtribus II. Bamb,,^ Endl. Gen. 102. Futoce*, abtribn* 

 Bambu*d« t Lmdl. m Veg. King. 3rd ed. 116 (1853). Festneaecarnm genera. Knn.l, in 



426 (1833). 



E 



Gramma frutieosa vel arborescentia, culrno mme excelsissimo, 120-pedali et ultra, nunc alte ecandente, 



nunc 



el inermi. 



In nonnulhs e nod.s cul mi mferioribns - multe fibrilte lignos* pro g erm„,a„t, qnamn, inferiors, 

 vera? rad,ees, m tcrram intrant, superiors spinas, bene dictas 'horridas,' mentiuntur." i„ ptarimj 

 spec.ebus m cnlmorum vetnstiorum cavitate eoneretiones siliee*, Tabasheer diet*, invent* rani 

 sed nnnquam in seetione "Triglot." Iterum in m „ltis loeis enlmi vel tnriones (snrenli) tarn 

 numerosi snnt ut sylvnlas vel etiani sylvas densas fere inpenetrabiles constitnant. 

 Folm ,,« plant* statnra minora, omnia nisi in Platoniu basi artieulata, s*pe eito deeidua, inter- 



uum venulis transversis impress conspicuc tessellata. 



