1232 BENGAL PLANTS. [Bambusa. 
Cultivated in the western parts. 
An erect, annual grass. Vernac. Jao, jab. Barley. 
4116. Bambusa Schreb. 
Shrubs or trees, usually large and cespitose, rarely climbing ; 
stem- heute broad, blade often ies ngular ; leaves short- petioled, 
not tesselate by nervules, but sometimes so by pellucid glands ; 
sheaths variously auricled. Spikelets simon Se ered, generally 
disposed in a large, leafless panicle. bearing heads on spiciform 
branches, or in leafy panicles or in panicled spikes. Lower glumes 
1-4, empty or in tigar an ale g glumes ovate-lanceolate, 
“uppermo st imperfect ; palea 2-keeled ; "odie ules 2 or 8, membra- 
nous, ciliate, oa obsolete ; stamens. : 6, free ; ; ovary oblong or 
obovate, tip hairy; styles short or long; stigmas 2-8. Grain 
oblong or linear-oblong, furrowed on one side; pericarp thin. 
rent. 
Shrubby ; stems not spinous; blade of stem-sheaths linear .......-- nana, 
Arboresce 
sas 9 foe spino 
gules narrow, eee blade of stem-sheaths triangular or reni- 
Tulda 
Ligule of stem-sheaths erg toothed; of _ broadly triangu- 
lar, membranous; blade of stem-sheaths 2-morphic, lower short, 
wide, ciliate ck totiatted ee upper em percesneoe ..-Balcooa. 
Ligule of stem-sheaths toothed or fimbriate; of leaves short and 
ciliate; blade of stem-sheaths triangular, with rounded base 
vulgaris. 
Stems spinous arundinacea. 
2725. Bampusa nana Roxb.; F. I. ii. 199; F. B. I. vii. 390; 
E. D. B. 133. 
Cultivated. 
A a shrubby bamboo, 6-10 feet high; native of 
China. Beng. Chhota bans. 
2726. youn. Tutpa Roxb.; F. I. ii. 193; F. B. I. vii. 387; 
. B. 144, 
C. Bengal; E. Bengal; Chittagong ; 
A gregarious bamboo, 20-70 feet “Hind. Peka; 
Beng. Tulda, djowa, initongs. matela bans. 
