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for roofing, basket and wattle work, and they make excellent lance-staves. 
In the bamboo forests of the Panjab and the North-West the different 
pach and descriptions of this bamboo are classified under a multitude of 
"The analysis of the grain made by Professor Church is as follows :— 
Dendrocalamus strictus. 
The grain of this bamboo, after NE of the husk, gave, on 
analysis, the following results in 100 part 
Water - - E - « 13'9 
Albuminoids - - - = II*5 
Starch, &c. - - - E - 66°3 
i - ^ : - - d ues 
Fibre - - - - - 6°9 
Ash - eo £46. - - ero 
per cent. only—a difference which is not an unusual one. The ratio 
of albuminoids to carbohydrates plus the starch—-equivalent of the oil— 
will then be 1:6 instead of 1:6. These figures are very near those 
iven by Bambusa arundinacea* and. B. Tulda,t which the present 
me closely resembles in chemical Composition and P actin Its 
husked grains are, however, smaller than those of B. Tu pu are 
larger than those of B. arundinacea, as shown in the aarde ‘table 
Bambusa Tulda- - - cia husked fruits weigh 100 grains. 
Doris indt strictus 2 » » 
Bambusa arundinacea 300 5 » » 
There is more oil, but also more fibre in this grain than in that of 
the other bamboos to which reference has been made 
ABC: 
CXXV.—RAMIE OR RHEA. 
(Boehmeria nivea, Hk. & A 
Boehmeria nivea, var. raris Gaud.) 
The report on the results of the trials of machines aud methods for 
decorticating Ramie stems, held at Paris on the 23rd September 1889, 
. was published in the Bulletin for last month (p. 268 
It is evident from this report that considerable progress has been 
made towards a solution of the problems involved in the treatment of 
. Ramie fibre, and it remains for those interested in the subject in India 
and the Colonies, to initiate locally such further experimental trials of 
Sure * s * Food Grains of India, p. 
ee t Kew Bulletin, December 1887, p. &. 
