tine Banib usee hy B. Wrayi and />'. Griffit/i/i. From a geographical 

 point of view it is very interesting to note that the centre of Xastus 

 lies quite at the periphery of the common area of the other Bambutee, 

 in Madagascar and in the island of Bourbon, and that it just reaches 

 Western Sumatra ( An-k .la. Junghuhu, according to Munro). Here in 

 the most western part of the Malavan flora it is joined by its nearest 

 ally, B. Wrayi, whiKt 11. '/. ■//////, ,7 was found in the extreme north of 

 Burma and in Manipur by Mr. C. B. Clarke. 



Mr. L. Wray. jtm., states that this Bamboo was only found in the 

 two localities mentioned above. According to him it dies off after 

 having fruited. The Lemangs call it Bnloh Bertumpitan, and they 

 " use the large canes for the outer case of their arrow blowpipes ; the 

 " small ones for the inner tube. They strengthen them over a fire when 

 " green and hang them up in the smoke of their cooking places to dry." 



In numerous Merile spicubn the 4th or 5th glume was deformed by 

 insect action. The basal poriiou was much enlarged and adnate to the 

 likewise enlarged next internode of tjie rachilla. This portion, a kind 

 of oblong gall, contained the larva of the insect in the cavity. 



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foll.m 



ing interesting 

 ed at Kew from 



B. 



at described above 

 ;iculars respecting it 

 Wray, dated Perak 



(Bambusa Wrayi) 

 ; are contained in a 1c 

 , June 14th, 1892 :— 





Mr. L. 



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, junr., to Koyal Gardens, Kew. 



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Perak Government Museum, Larut, Pera 



Straits .Settlements, June 14th, 1802. 



I beckntly went up a mountain called Gunong Inas, in the 

 north of this State, and procure! live plants of the bamboo of which the 

 Semangs make their blowpipes, known by the Malay name of Buloh 



If these plants grow I will send them to you before the cold weather 

 sets in. I have sent them up the hills here, where they will be at 

 nearly the same elevation as their natural habitat. 



1 was also fortunate enough to find a clump of these bamboos in 

 flower, and I send you the specimens. As I expect this is a new 

 species, and that you will describe it. I have sent you all the specimens, 

 as it is better to have the whole material available to describe from. I 

 would ask you, after having kept what you require for your herbarium, 

 to kindly send the duplicates to Dr. King, of Calcutta. 



The plant grows at from 4,500 feet to nearly 6,000 feet elevation, 

 generally on the ridges of the hills. The canes are about 1 inch in 

 diameter near the ground, and taper away to T \r inch. These long thin 

 ends drop down till (they touch the ground. The canes are from 40 to 

 60 feet long. They are furnished with whorls of leaves at all the 

 upper joints, and, as can be imagined, the bamboo is about the most 

 elegant of its kind. from what 1 saw I arrived at the conclusion that 



form any idea at what age this happens, but I saw a cane which had 

 been partly cut through by a knife, and it was still in vigorous 

 growth ; and as this hill has not been visited since 1886 this particular 

 cane must be at least six rears old, and as there would be many 

 successions of canes before a plant reaches maturity the age of these 

 bamboos must be very considerable. When they fruit, the barren canes 



