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variety of the last species, and differs from it in more solid culm, the triple 
thorns, the central larger and often compound, and almost always present 
throughout the whole plant, very strong and sharp ; leaves generally smaller, 
often hairy on the lower surface ; a paler-coloured and more striated flower, panicle 
smaller and more coriaceous spikelets and with fewer flowers. It is not men- 
tioned in Dalz. and Gibs. Bombay Flora, nor in Graham’s Catalogue of Bombay 
Plants. 
B. vulgaris, Wendl., Munro, Monogr. Bomb. 106 ; Dalz. and Gibs. Bomb, 
Fl, 299 ; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. Manual 233 ; Brand. Forest Fl. 568; B. thouarsii, 
Kunt. I. 356 ; B. arundinacea, Aiton. 
Ver.—Kulluk, or Bambu (Bomb.) ; Una gass (Ceylon). 
Culm 29 to 50 ft. high, unarmed, green, yellow or mottled green and yellow ; 
joints 4 to 6 in, diameter ; walls of the hollow stem thin, Branches green, striated 
or sulcated. Sheaths hirsute above with dark hairs, Leaves thin, linear- 
lanceolate, acute, 6 to 10 in, long, # to 13 in. broad, Flowering branches often 
leaf bearing. Spikelets sessile, oblong-lanceolate, laterally subcompressed, 4 to 1 in, 
long, glabrous, 4 to 12 flowered, distichous, appearing as bifid, fasciculate or on 
long paniculate spikes. Empty glumes 2 ; flowering glumes ovate-lanceolate, 
narrow at the base, mucronate and ciliate at the apex ; fimbriate keels of palea 
appear at the top of the flowering glume. Lodicules transparent, thin. Anthers 
with short hairs at the apex. Style long, filiform, hirsute, divided at the end 
into 2 or 38 stigmas, 
This species grows in Ceylon, where it is known as Una, Indian Archipelago, 
tropical America, and the West Indies (Brandis, For. FI.), Cultivated in the 
Western Deccan, Poona, Satara, Kholapore, Silhet, Cachar, Chittagong, and in 
the Eastern Punjab, Those who go to Mahableshwar through the Satara Road 
must have seen it planted along its margins, 
For remarks on the uses of this species see notes appended to the description 
of B. arundinacia. 
B. arundo, Kiem, Nees, Linn. IX, 471; Stend. Synop. Pl. Gramin Ef. 
329 ; Dalz. and Gibs. Bomb. FI, 299. 
Culm thorny ; mouths of the sheaths naked ; leaves (floral) orate-lanceolate, 
6 to 7 in. long, 4 to 5 lines broad, rounded at the base, shortly-petioled, smooth ; 
spike terminal, ample, leafy, the branches spreading, simple or compound ; 
spikelets an inch long, erect, approximated in threes, upper ones alternate, 6 to 8 
flowered ; culm 8 to 9 ft. high. Native name ‘“ Chiwaree,” Onthe Ghats, Of 
this walking sticks are sold at Mahableshwar.” 
I have not seen this flower, 
Oxytenanthera Stochsit, Munro, Monog. 130, 
Mr. Beddome has copied from Munro the following description, see p. 233:— 
“ Culms slender ; internodes 4 to 7 in. long, glabrous ; the nodes with few 
branchlets ; leaves linear, lanceolate ; imneronato acute at the apex ; cordate 
