772 Jour., Bom. Nat. Hist, Soc, Vol. XXXIII, No. 4 {Oct. 15, 1929. 



5-9-flowered ; sometimes with bractiform subfoliaceous scales at their bases ; 

 rhachilla glabrous, flattened. Glumes all flowering or rarely the lowest empty, 

 ovate, acute, many-nerved. Pale shorter than the glumes, keels minutely 

 ciliate at or near the tip only. Stamens long-exserted, pendulous ; anthers 

 obtuse or finely apiculate, yellow. Ovary obovoid, pubescent at the apex. 

 Style very short, divided from almost the base into 3 long and hairy stigmas. 

 Grain elliptic, furrowed, shortly beaked, top hairy. 



Distribution: China, Japan.— Cultivated in Manila, Luzon, Java, Malay 

 Peninsula, India, Europe. 



* 2. Bambusa vulgaris, Schrad. apud Wendl. Collect. PI. ii (1810), 26, t. xlvii; 

 Rupr. in Act. Acad. Caes. Petrop. (1840), 137, t. xi, fig. 47 ; Munro, Monogr. 

 107; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. ccxxxii ; Brandis lad. Trees 670; A. & C. Riviere 

 Les Bambous 191 ; Gamble Tnd. Bamb. 43, pl. 40 and in Hook. f. F. B. I. vii, 

 391. Camus Les Bambusees (1913), 122, pl. 76, f. f A.— B, Thouarsii, Kunth 

 Not. Gen. Bambus. in Journ. Phys. (1822), 148 ; Rupr. Bambus. 48, t. xi, f. 

 48. — B. surinamensis , Rupr. in Act. Acad. Caes. Petrop. (1840), 49, t. xi, 49. — 

 B. Sieberi, Griseb. Fl. Brit. W. Ind. 528.— B. hutnilis, Reichb. ex Rupr.— 

 B. arundinacea, Moon Cat, 26 ; Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. ii, 316. — B. auriculata, 

 Kurz. aPud Houz. de Lehaie. 



Description : Stems unarmed, 6-15 m., 5-10 cm. in diam., first green, then 

 yellow, or striped, polished ; nodes hardly raised, with usually a ring of brown 

 hairs ; internodes 25-45 cm. long, walls rather thin. Stem-sheaths 15-25 cm. 

 by 17-23 cm., often streaked with yellow, thickly hairy above, top rounded, 

 refuse ; blade 5-15 cm., appressed hairy on both surfaces, base rounded, decur- 

 rent with rounded, falcate, fimbriate auricles ; ligule broad., toothed or 

 fimbriate. Leaves linear-lanceolate, 15-25 cm. by 16-40 cm., pale, petioled, 

 glabrous, tessellate by pellucid glands, tip twisted, scabrid, nerves 6-8; sheath 

 laxly hairy; ligule short, ciliate, auricle rounded. Panicle large, leafy. 

 Spikelets 15-20 mm., in bracteate clusters of 3-10 oblong, acute, bifid, empty 

 glumes, 1-2 ovate, many-nerved with the tip ciliate ; flowering glumes 6-10, 

 larger. Pale as long as the glume, keels white, ciliate. Lodicules 3, winged, 

 ciliate. Anthers obtuse, hairy, apiculate, purple. Ovary narrow, hairy ; 

 style long. 



Distribution: Mauritius, Bourbon, Madagascar, Hawaii, Java. — Cultivated 

 in other countries. 



A handsome variety is grown in Indian gardens. 



Var. striata, Auct. mult. — Bambusa striata, Lodd. ex Lindl. in Penny 

 Cyclop, iii (1835), 357 ; Munro Monograph 121 ; Curtis Bot. Mag. xxx (1874) t. 

 6079. — Var. vittata, A & C. Riviere 1 . c—B. vulgaris vel culmis variegatis, 

 Hort. Gall. — B. variegata, Hort. — Var. aureo-variegata, Hort. 



Rather smaller in size. The stems are striped with yellow and green, the 

 stripes alternating at every node ; the branchlets are yellow and the leaves 

 somewhat smaller and paler. On drying the stripes disappear. 



Distribution : Probnbly the result of cultivation in China and Japan. 



3. Bambusa arundinaria, Retz. Obs. v (1789), 24 sub Bambos ; Willd. Sp. Pl. ii 

 (1799), 245 ; Roxb. Corom. Pl. i, 56, t. 79, Fl. Ind. ii, 191 ; Poir. Encycl. viii, 

 701; Rupr. in Act. Acad. Caes. Petrop. (1840), 51, t. xiii, fig. 50 ; Munro, 

 Monogr., 103 ; Brandis Ind. Trees 671 ; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. ccxxi ; Gamble Ind. 

 Bamb. 52 et in Hook. f. F. B. I. vii, 395; Duthie Fodd. Grass. N. Ind. 70 ; 

 Cke. ii, 1046 ; Camus Les Bambusees (1913), 128, pl. 75, f. A.—B. Arundu, 

 Klein ex Nees in Linnaea ix (1834), 471 ; Rupr. Bamb. 1. c. 53 t. 13, f. 53.— 

 B. Neesiana, Arn. ex Munro 1. c — B. orientalis, Nees I.e. 475 ; Rupr. 1. c. 52, 

 t. 13, f. Sl.—H. pungens, Blanco Fl. Filip. ed. i, 270. — B. spinosa, Roxb. Fl. 

 Ind. ii, 198. — Ar undo Bambos.. \ Ann. Sp. Pl. 81. — A. indica arborea, Auct — 

 Nastus arundinaceus , Sm. in Rees Cycl. xxiv, no. 1. 



Description : Cke. ii, 1046. 



Locality: Gujarat: (Gamble); Dangs (WV.odrow). — Konkan : Kanary 

 Caves (McCann A215 !, A216 !) ; Wada Range (Rvan 494 !) ; Vetora (Sabnis 

 33282 !); Western Ghats (Gamble).— Deccan : Igatpuri (McCann A218 ! ) ; 

 Karli (Gammie 16169!); Khandala, St. XavieVs Villa (McCann A224 ! , 

 A225 !).— Kanara : Karwar (Hallberg & McCann A217 ! ) ; 3 miles from 

 Mirjan (Hallberg & McCann A 220 !). 



Distribution : India, Burma, Ceylon.— Often cultivated. 



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