206 83. GRAMiXEiE. [Oxytenanthera. 



and North Kanara glitits, usually as undergrowth in deciduous forests. 

 Culms often as large as those of Dendrocalamus, cavity small. A soft 

 bamboo, young stems covered with deciduous brown tomentum. Flowers 

 frequently, at least clumps or single stems are often found in flower. 



O. Stocksii, Munro ; Trans. Linn. Soc. 26 to 130 r Bedd. Fl. Sylv. 233. 

 Juinda, Vern. Commonly cultivated along the coast, rare in the ghat 

 forests of North Kanara. A strong Ijamboo. used for punting poles and for 

 making native umbrellas, Flowering culms are frequently found. 



DENDRO CALAMUS, Nees. 



Unarmed bamboos. Inflorescence paniculate, spikelets con- 

 gested in heads. Characters of Bamhusa. Lodicules 0. Ovary 

 hairy, style long- filiform, undivided or 2-3-fid at the apex, base per- 

 sistent. Caryopsis with a thick pericarp. Embryo not conspicuous 

 on surface. 



D. strictus, Nees, Munro Trans. Linn. Soc. 26 ; 147 ; Brandis For. Fl. 

 569 ; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. 235. ; Gamble. Ind. Timb., 430. Male bamboo. 

 Shib, h'-tsa. udJid, medar, mace, mandgay, Vern. Throughout the presidency, 

 usually in deciduous forests — the common unai'med bamboo. I am unac- 

 quainted with any species of the genus Arundinnrla from the Bombay Presi- 

 dency, although there may be one or two species found on the higher Konkan 

 ghats. I have, howevei-, a species of bamboo which Mr. Gamble says is 

 Teinostachyum Wightii. It has thin culms | to f in. in diameter, hollow, 

 and foinns large dense clumps along the margins of streams and nalas, 

 common on the Supa ghafts, also in the Karwar taluka and between 

 Nilkund and Gairsoppah, in €he evergreen foi-ests of North Kanara. 

 Flowers not seen. Uooda, M ; woutenidgi, K. This bamboo is much used 

 in the construction of temporary bridges over the streams and nahis of the 

 ghats, during the south-west monsoon. Leaves large, 6-10 in. by H to 

 2 in. ; ligula bearded. It is sometimes slender and semiscandent, the tips 

 bending over like carriage whips, when without support. 



