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Spec. Chab. Ciidni Tinarmed, 20—50 fret: branches green, 

 opaque, striated and furrowed, widely piped : sheaths above hirsute 

 with dark-coloured hairs : leaves linear4anceoIa*e, acute,, 6—10- 

 mches long, 9—18 broad : spikelets oblong-lanoeolate, acuminate, 

 compressed, herbaceous, 6 — S-iGLowered. ' 



■Western coast. One of the largest of the species, 



(2) B. AEOuDnrACEA. ( WilU.J 

 Ident. Willd. sp. II. 245. — Eoxb. 1. c. p. 191. 



Syn. Bambos arundinaeea, Ret%, — Arundo Bambos, Linn. — 

 NastuB arundinaceus. Smith in Bees Cycl. 



Migrm. Eoxb. Cor. 1. 1. 79.— E,upr. Bamb. t. 13, £g. 50. 



Spec. Chae. Culm thorny : sheaths downy, bristly in the 

 mouth : leaves lanceolate, rounded at the base, scabrous above and 

 at the margins : spikes from all the -nodes branched, compound and 

 decompound, regularly clustered: spikelets sessile, oblong-lanceo- 

 late. 



Mountainous districts. 



(3) B. spinosa. (Uoxb.) 



Ident. Eoxb. 1. c. p. 198. 



Syn. Arundo arbor, lAnn. flor. Zeyl. p. 47. — Arund-arbor 

 spinosa, Rumph. 



Migrm. Eheede Mai. I. t. 16. 



Spec. Chae. Culm thorny : sheaths bristly at the mouth : floral 

 leaves lanceolate, acuminated, attenuated at the base, smoothish : 

 terminal spike large, leafy, expanded : branches lax, elongated, 

 bent down or pendulous, simple or. compound : spikelets erect, in 

 two's or three's : outer valve very acute : style 2-cleft to the middle. 



Bengal. 



(4) B. siEiCTA. fRoxh.J 



Ident. Eoxb. 1. c. p. 193, and Cor. I. t. 80. 



Syn. Dendrocalamus strictus, Neea. 



Spec. Chae. Culms straight, thorny, or unarmed : leaves short- 

 petioled, lanceolate, rounded at the base : branches of the panicle . 

 simple,, very long: clusters of spikelets very dense, oval, equi- 

 distant. 



Coromandel and "Western coasts. A small straight species and 

 the kind used for boar-spears. 



