138 . SELECT PLANTS FOR INDUSTRIAL CULTURE 



Genista monospenua, Lamarck. 



Mediterranean regions. One of the best of Broom bushes 

 for arresting sand drift. G. sphserocarpa, Lamarck, is of like 

 use, and comes also from the Mediterranean Sea. 



Gentiana lutea, Linne. 



Sub- Alpine tracts of Middle and South Europe. A perennial 

 most beautiful herb, yielding the medicinal gentian root. It 

 could be easily raised in our higher mountains. Chemical 

 principles : gentian-bitter and gentianin. 



Geonoma vaga, Grisebach and Wendland. 



From West India to Brazil. A dwarf decorative Palm, ad- 

 vancing up to 3,000 feet on the mountains. 



Genm nrbauum, Linne. 



Europe, North Africa, extra-tropical and Alpine Asia, South- 

 East Australia, North America. The " Avens " of Britain. 

 A perennial herb with a powerful anti-dysenteric root, which, 

 according to Muspratt, contains up to 41 per cent, of tannic acid. 



Gigantocllloa apus, Kurz. [Bambusa apus, Roemer and Sehultes.) 

 Indian Archipelagus, at elevations up to 5,000 feet. Height 

 of stem to 60 feet. When young, it is used for strings and 

 ropes. 



Gigantochloa aspera, Kurz. 



Java. Found by Zollinger to attain a maximum height of 

 170 feet. 



Gigantochloa atter, Kurz. 



Java, in the region from 2,000 to 4,000 feet. Height of stems 

 to 70 feet. One of the extensively cultivated species. 



Gigantochloa maxima, Kurz. 



Java. Height to 120 feet, the stems nearly a foot thick. 

 One of the most extensively cultivated of all Asiatic bamboos, 

 ascending into mountain regions. 



Gigantochloa nigro-cilliata, Kurz. {Oxytenanthera nigrodliata, 

 Munro.) 



Continental and insular India. Stems to 130 feet long. 



Gigantochloa robusta, Kurz. 



Mountains of Java. Height to 100 feet. Kurz noticed in 



