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Murray in Watt Dictionary of Economic Prod, vi, pt. 4, 89. 



Koerneck & Werner, Handbuch der Getreide Arten. 



Howard, A. and Howard, G.L.C. The varietal characters of Indian wheats. 

 Mem. Dept. Agr. Ind. (Bot. ser.) ii (1908), and many other papers on wheat 

 which were mostly published by the Department of Agriculture in India. 



Schulz, A. Die Abstammung des Weizens. Mitt. natf. Ges- Halle a. 

 S. I. (1912), 14-17. 



Percival, J. The wheat plant : a monograph. 463 p., 218 f. London 1921. 



Huber, J. A. Ueber Abstammung und Systematik des Weizens. in Natur- 

 forscheriii, (1927), 577-582. 



Cooke mentions 2 varieties which are chiefly grown in the Presidency : 

 (a) Var. spelta. This is Linne's Triticum Spelta. 

 \b) Var. pilosa. This is Triticum pilosum, Dalz. & Gibs. 



104. Hordeum, Linn. 

 1. Hordeum vulgare, Linn. Sp. PL (1753), 84. 



The following three varieties are grown in the Bombay Presidency. 



(a) Var. hexastichon^ Hordeum hexastichon, Linn. Sp. PL (1753), 85. 



(b) Var. distichon = H. distichon, Linn. I.e. 



(V) Var. nudum = H. nudum, Arduini ex Schult. Mant. ii. (1824), 437. 

 We refer to : 



Schulz, A. Die Abstammung der Saatgerste, Hordeum sativum. Mitt. 



Natf. Ges. Halle a. S.I. (1912), 18-27. 



Wiggans, R. G. A. classification of the cultivated varieties of Barley. Cornell 

 Agr. Exp. Stat. Mem. 46 (1921), 365-456. 



Blaringhem, L. Sur las caracteres d'especes elementaires d'Orges 

 {Hordeum). Bull. Soc. Bot. France 71 (1924), 623-27. 



TRIBE XVII. BAMBUSE^ 



105. Bambusa, Schreb. Gener. Plant. (1789) no. 607. (Cke. ii, 1046). 



Species 73. — Eastern Asia, Australia. — One species indigenous in the Presi- 

 dency, and 2 commonly cultivated. 

 I. Stem and branches unarmed 



1. Spikelet subcylindric ; fertile flowers 5-9 .. 1. B. nana. 



2. Spikelet compressed, flattened, distichous, 



fertile flowers 5-6 ... ... ... 2. B. vulgaris. 



II. Stem and branches armed ... ... 3. B. arundinacea. 



*1. Bambusa nana, Roxb. Hort. Beng. (1814), 25, Fl. Ind. ii, 190; Munro 

 Monogr. Bamb. in Transact. Linn. Soc. xxv (1866), 89 ; Gamble Ind. Bamb. 

 Ann. Roy. Bot. Gard. vii (1896), 40, t. 38; Brandis Ind. Trees 669 ; Camus, 

 Bambusees (1913), 121, pi. 37, f. B.—B. glaucescens, Siebold Cat. ex Munro.— 

 B. glauca, Lodd. Cat. — B. caesia, Sieb & Zucc. ex Munro. — B. sterilis, Kurz 

 in Miquel Ann. Mus. Bot. Lugd. Bat. ii, 285. — B. viridi- glaucescens, Carriere 

 in Revue Hortic. (1869), 292 {non Riv.). — B. aurea, Franchet & Savatier (non 

 A. & C. Riviere). — Ischurochloa floribunda, Btise in Miq. PL Jungh 390; 

 Miquel Fl. Ind. Bat. iii, 422. — Arundinaria glaucescens, P. Beauv. Agrost. 144 ; 

 Ruprecht in Act. Acad. Caes. Petrop. (1840), 23, t. 1, fig. 3 ; Munro Monogr. 

 I.e. 22. — Panicum arborescens, Linn. — Triglossun arundinaceum , Fisch. apud 

 Roem. & Schult. Syst. 846. — Ludolfia glaucescens, Willd. in Mag. Gesell. 

 N. F. Berlin (1808), 320. 



Description : Stems densely tufted, 2-3 m. high, rarely more, 3 cm. in diam., 

 glabrous, green when young, then yellow, unarmed, hollow, much branched 

 from the base ; branches fascicled, semiverticillate, often dichotomous. 

 Sheaths of young shoots glabrous, striate, very long, attenuate, apiculate, 

 lanceolate, truncate at the apex, surmounted by an imperfect limb rather 

 long-acuminate and decurrent into 2 ciliate auricles. Leaves often small, 

 2"5-7*5 cm. long, the larger ones often attaining 14 cm. by 5-7 mm., rounded 

 at the base, long-acuminate, smooth or pubescent below, scabrous on the 

 margins, glaucous-bluish ; secondary nerves 5-7 pairs, not tessellate, but 

 provided with pellucid glands. Spikelets 12-45 mm. long, few clustered or 

 solitary on the branches of short diffuse panicles, straw-coloured, shining, 



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