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of my belief, in the same year that the remaining portion of the old clumps. 
in Sleeman’s Park at Jubbulpore and the old bamboos of the Maharaj Bagh 
at Nagpur seeded and died. 
Possibly I am wrong about the Nagpur Katangs. I remember that in or 
before 1879 the Forest Department, under the immediate care of Colonel 
Doveton, began to cultivate these bamboos at Telin Kerry, two miles west 
of Nagpur, for profit. The supply of Nagpur and Kamptee was aimed at. 
Possibly the seeds for this interesting experiment came from the old bamboos 
of the Maharaj Bagh. 
I learn that the general seeding of the Katang bamboos at Dehra, in the 
Doon, occurred in the Spring of 1882. 
In the hot weather of 18851 visited the upper valley of the (Cuttack) 
Mahanadi river and the Jeypore Zamindari of Madras. Returning by way 
of Dhamiari and of Rajim (where the Pairi river falls into the Mahanadi), 
I found a large number of bamboo clumps coming into seed. The Zamindars 
and Government oificials promised to save all the spare seed for me, and this 
they kindly did. 'Two sacks of well-ripened seed reached me at Ghazipur, and 
thence it was distributed throughout India ; some was sent to Australia, to 
Oyprus, to China, and even to Cornwall. The Secretary to the Agricul- 
tural and Horticultural Society of India took the rest for their corresponding 
societies. He also kindly brought to my notice writings of Sir William 
Sleeman in the printed proceedings of some society, possibly of the Asiatic 
Society,in which was noticed a general seeding of the bamboos at Dehra 
Doon in or about the year 1832, 
In 1886 I revisited Rajim to find that all the clumps had died off. Here 
and there was to be seen an exceptional stalk, and a few attenuated and al- 
most abortive shoots had sprung up from moribund roots. These were striv- 
ing to flower and seed, _ 
This season I visited the Mallkna hills, about thirty-five miles south-east 
of Rajim. Here also were dead clumps; around them young seedlings 
struggling for life—the outcome of the seeding of 1885. 
From several sources reports were heard that all the Katang bamboos in 
that mass of Vindhyan sandstone hills from amid which the Jouk river 
begins its northward course had seeded in the previous year (1885). This 
mass of hills lies about thirty miles south-east of the Malkna hills, south 
of an imaginary village named as Tarnot on the Government maps cf the 
Chhattisgarh Feudatory States. 
It was in this year (1886) that, with a well-known member of this society, 
I saw the waters of the Udanti, a branch of the Tel, which again is an eastern 
affluent of the Mahanadi. The Udanti rises on the western side of the 
same mass of hills whence the Jouk runs northwards. The Udanti first 
runs southwards, then turns to the east. We had occasion to visit the 
favourite mud-bath of an old solitary bull buffalo on the banks of the 
