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rotundate at the base, or attenuated into a flat petiole, 3 to 4 in. long by 4 to 6 lines 
broad, hirsute or glabrous above, hirsute beneath ; primary veins 4 to 5 on each side, 
inconspicuous ; sheath striated, often pubescent when young, glabrous in age ; 
mouth fimbriate, inflorescence as in No, 1; verticels sometimes 14 inches in 
- diameter, very dense, almost echinate ; spikelets about 6 lines long ; sterile, very 
acute, glabrous, 4 to 5 flowered, the 2 lower florets unipaleaceous, shining on the 
back, mucronate at the apex ; the 2 next bipaleaceous and fertile, the upper one 
very short or obsolete, the lower palea membranaceous ; striato nervose subulate, 
with a long spine at the apex ; margin glabrous ; the upper palea in the fourth 
flower convex obtuse, in the third bicarinate obtuse, the keels fimbriate. 
Stamens 6 monadelphous shortly mucronate or nearly obtuse or apiculate with 
1 to 2 greenish hairs, Style 2 to 3 cleft at the apex ; ovary (young) hirsute at 
the apex.’—Junro. Monogr., p. 180. 
Konkan Ghats. I have not seen this ; its leaves are said to be exactly like 
those of Dendrocalamus strictus ; it is distinguished from the last by the short 
points to the anthers and its striated membranous lower palea. 
I have received an imperfect flowering branch of a bamboo cultivated in 
Cumpta. It approaches in part to O. monostygma of Beddome. 
Dendrocalamus strictus. Nees, Munro. Monogt. Bom. 147; Bedd. Fl. 
Sylv. t. 325; Brand. For. Fl. 569; Bambusa stricta, Roxb. Fl, Ind., U, 
198; Dalz. and Gibs. Bomb, Fl. 299. 
Ver.—Bas, Bans (North India), Bas, Udha (Dalz and Gibs.). 
Culms straight, up to 30 to 40 ft. high, nearly solid, or with a very narrow 
cavity, variously bent; branches often leafless, numerous, rigid or flexuose, 
horizontal or spreading in all directions. Sheaths at the base of the branches 
striated, coriaceous, very smooth and shining inside, 8 to 10 in, long, terminat- 
ing into a long apex. Leaves shortly-petioled, lanceolate distichous, hairy 
above and below, rounded at the base, variable in size, generally 3 to 9 in., ¢ to 1 
inch broad. Spikelets spinescent, 3 to 9 lines long, in dense globular heads. 
1 to 4 inch in diameter, arranged in long interrupted spikes. Empty glumes 2 to 6, 
flowering glumes 2 to 3, acute or with a spimescent point. Palea of lower flower 
sometimes 2-keeled. Keels ciliate of upper flower convex, glabrous. Stamens 
6. Ovary stipitate hairy. Style long hirsute. Stigma plumose, entire. 
Caryopsis ovoid 3 to 4 lines long, ovate, narrowed into the hairy style. 
Indigenous and cultivated everywhere in this Presidency, common also in 
Madras, up to 3,500 ft. in Bengal, Burma and Punjab. Absent from Sind. 
In Ceylon it is found only in a cultivated form, 
The three most important species are B. arundinacea, B. vulgaris, and Denr- 
drocalamus strictus. The latter attains, as already stated, 20-40 ft., sometimes 
in good soil 100 ft. All this growth is attained within a year, The stem dies 
after flowering and ripening its seed. I have seen it in flower during the 
months of December and January. Its stem is solid and elastic, and is used for 
