Oxytenanthera, } GRAMINE A. 41233 
2727. Bampusa Bacooa Roxb.; F. I. ii. 196; F. B. I. vii. 391; 
E. D. B. 129, 
chia: N. Bengal; C. Bengal; E. Bengal. 
A large bamboo; stems 50-70 feet high. Beng. Balku, 
balkua 
2728, Banus VuLGARIS Schrad.; F. B. I. vii. 891; HE. D. 
B. 149. 
Cultivated. 
A large bamboo; stems somewhat —— 20-50 feet 
high; native of Malaya. Beng. Bas : 
2729. BAMBUSA ARUNDINACEA W- ids; #. oe He 4900). Bed, 
vii. 395; E. D. B. 118. B. spinosa F, I. ii. 198; E. D. 
139 
In most of the provinces. 
A tall, thickset bamboo; stems 80-100 feet nt 
Hind. Bans, kattang, magar bans, nal bans ; 
Bans, behar bans; Kol. Katanga ; ae Mat. 
1117. Gigantochloa Kurz. 
Trees or large, climbing shrubs; stems simple below; stem- 
sheaths usually stiff, hairy above, auricled ; leaves long. Spikelets 
few, in heads on the long, pauieie branches of a compound 
Panicle. Lower glumes 2-3, empty; flowering glumes like the 
empty; palea of all the Ft wering glumes 2-keeled, the siti 
ciliate ; Jodicules 1-3, sometimes obsolete; stamens 6; 
connate in a short, thick, at length elongated, sega tea 
ovary hairy; stigmas 1-3, hirsute. Grain usually oblong, or 
linear and furrowe ed; pericarp membranous. 
2730. Groavrocauos macrosTacHya Kurz; F. B. I. vii. 399; E. D. 
Go2ie 
Chittagong. 
1 evergreen bamboo; stems 30-50 feet high. 
1118. Oxytenanthera Munro. 
Trees or large, climbing shrubs; rootstock stout, usually creep- 
ing or stoloniferous; a sheaths strigose , blade de current ; 
dric or conical, LSowetii: with Joruiiens 1 flower “usually fertile, 
large panicle. Hmpty glumes 1-3; flowering glumes elongate, 
