1384 INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 



eruptions, leaves emenagogue, and the tabashir is useful in 

 paralysis and flatulence. (Balfour's Cyclopedia Vol. I., 261.) 



" Tabashir is a cooling medicine, generally given in fever 

 to assuage thirst, also expectorant." (Barren, Bhuj, " Used as 

 a medicinal ingredient in cases of diarrhoea, dysentery, &c." 

 (Mr. Darrah, Assam.) 



1348. Dendrocalamus strictus, Nees. h.f.b.l, vii. 

 404. 



Syn. :— Bambusa stricta, Roxb. 193. 



Vern. : — Bans ; bans kaban ; bans khurd ; kopar (H.) ; 

 Karail (B.) ; Mathan ; saring ; burumat (Kol) ; Halpa ; veddar ; 

 vadur (Gond) ; Bas ; udha (Bomb.) ; Bhovarlit (Mar) ; Kanka ; 

 Sadhanapu vendaru (Tel.). 



Habitat : — Throughout India. 



Arborescent unarmed Bamboos with densely branching 

 root-stocks. Stems 10-50 ft. by 1-3 in. diam, hollow in most 

 climates solid in dry, young glancous green old yellowish nodes 

 swollen lower often rooting, internodes 12-18 in. upper 

 branches decurved. Stem sheathes variable lower 3-12 in. 

 glabrous or strigose with yellow brown pairs, striate top 

 rounded ciliate, slightly auricled blade triangular hairy especi- 

 ally within ligule narrow. Leaves deciduous narrowed from 

 the rounded petioled base to the twisted tip, midrib prominent 

 nerves 3-6 pair with interposed pellucid glauds. Sheath 

 striate hairy callus prominent auricle shirt ciliate with flexuous 

 deciduous hairs ; ligule narrow, serrate. Pancile large leads 

 dense, 1-1J in. much smaller M.S. forms. Rachis smooth inter- 

 nodes l|-2 in. Spikelets usually hairy, ovary stipitates turbinate 

 style long stegma simple, feathers Grain broadly ovoid shinong 

 beaked hairy above. 



Uses : — The silicious matter found near the joints is officinal, 

 and used as a cooling, tonic and astringent medicine. The 

 leaves are given to animals during parturition, from a supposi- 

 tion that they cause a more rapid expulsion of the placenta. 



