i d the following year Mr. Duthie, E ante of the Gowina t 
Y Pinisi Gardens, Saharunpur, sent a specimen to Kew for identifi- 
. eati Zi : 
am C 
* have been asked to identify. It isa ipit ‘of the EA Tersi, and 
c. It has been sent to m 8 o h occasi 
without flowers. It is said to flower only once in three 
This r a grass which, under the name of Bunkuss appears, from 
nat th 
the Bengal Catalogue of Indian products, to pe been show 
London nene of 1862 (section 1,  pp- 137, 168), as used in 
ufui for making ropes. 
r. Dnthie's TA, though CM imperfect, were submitted 
e late General Munro, C.B., r n the hope e = cane 
able Deme of grasses m might e sits him to it 
was. e ed in identifying it ith Sbodictogór- utilis 
(Trinius in ies etrop. vi, ii, p. ; Spec. Gram., t. 
added :—* Tt 
in Royle's Illustrations (p.416). It is very common in all 
rts of the Lower Him alayas ; and I have seen it from Afghanistan, 
riffit 
ed iy subsequently informed us that. it was also known under 
= Bha ib 88, thatit was used. for the manufaeture of 
i & varie ty of other articles of which a E collection 
to the Kew Museum in 1880 (see Report, 
60). i 
re indebted to Sir Dietrich Brandis, K.C.LE., late Inspector- 
lof Forests to the Government of India, for pointing out that 
riously known as Bhabar, Bhaib, and Bankas were all 
i The following nite upon the subject is contained in a 
| paper entitled “ b prie regarding Forest Administration in the 
"N.W. Provinces and Oudh ” (Calcutta, 1882, pp. 7, 8) :— 
“The export of ia: rin known as Bhabar, Bhaib, Bankas 
ndropogon involutus, not as has often been erroneou usly stated, 
‘omosum), from the Siwalik Hills, em from tr "ees of 
erable. 
eft for ro making, and it ds by no means impossible - 
vedo tor "erg paper-mills in Tome India will ec 
the ein ipa of this rass fo manu : 
Early i in 1883 the India Office fı ished us with a copy ofa ‘report 
p= C. E. Edwards, the mana, of the he Lucknow Paper | 
rector ent o rieulture and Commerce of the 
obser- 
