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S7. GllAMINJi^. 



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1. B. arundinacea, Retz. Munro in Trans. Linn. Soc. 26. 103 ; Bedd, 

 Fl. Sylv. 231; Brandis For. Fi. 564 ; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 299; 

 Gamble Ind. Timbers, 428. Baiis, Vern. ; Dougi, hidrgalu, K. ; Kalak, 

 padai^ Konkan. The Spiny Bamboo of Western India. 



An excellent bamboo, used for all purposes. 



2. B. vulgaris^ Wendl. ; Munro I.e. 106; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 

 299 ; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. 232 ; Brandis For. Fl. 568 ; Gamble Ind. Timbers, 

 428. KuUuk, bamhoOj vansa kullaha, Vern. The Yellow and Green 

 Striped Bamboo. 



A native of the southern and central parts of Ceylon. Cultivated in 

 Bombay, Kolhapur, Poona, Satdra, &c., but not indigenous. Stems with 

 green and yellow stripes. 



Much used in Ceylon for a variety of purposes. 



2. DENDROCALAMUS, Nees. 



Unarmed bamboos. Inflorescence paniculate, spikelets congested 

 in heads. Characters of Bamhusa. Lodicules 0, Ovary hairy, 

 style long^ filiform, undivided or 2-3-fid at the apex, base persistent, 

 Caryopsis with a thick pericarp. Embryo not conspicuous on 

 surface, 



D. strictus, Nees, Munro Trans. Linn. Soc. 26 ; 147 ; Brandis For. FL 

 569; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. 285 ; Gamble. Ind. Timb. 430. Male Bamboo. 8hih, 

 basa, udha, medar, mace, mandgay, Vern. Throughout India. Throughout 

 the presidency, usually in deciduous forests. The common unarmed 

 bamboo. 



3. OXYTENANTHERA, Munro. 



Erect or scandent bamboos. Spikelets often elongate and curved^ 

 verticellate, few-flowered. Flowers 1-3, the terminal one or thp 

 last but one fertile, racbilla obsolete. Flowering glume many- 

 nerved, spinose-mucronate. Palea in the fertile flowers convex on 

 the back, keels obsolete, in the other flowers bicarinate. Lodicules 

 none. Stamens 6, monadelphous, anthers with a mucro or bristle 

 or with a few hairs. Style slender, divided at the apex into 2-3 

 long and plicate stigmas. Caryopsis linear-oblong with a longitu-? 

 dinal furrow. 



2 flowers to spikelet. Style hairy. Anthers acute, 



not apiculate ... ... ... ... ... 1. O, StocJcsii, 



Spikelets slender, 1-flowered. Style glabrous. 



Anthers apiculate ... 2. O. monostigma, 



2. O. monostigma, Bedd. Fl. Sylv. 233 ; Gamble Ind. Timbers, 429. 

 Bamhusa Bitcheyi, Munro. Choua, K. 



In the Anamallays. Common throughout the Konkan and North 

 Kdnara ghd,ts, usually as undergrowth in deciduous forests. Culms 

 often as large as those of Dendrocalamus^ cavity small. A soft bamboo, 

 young stems covered with deciduous brown tomcntum. Flowers 

 frequently, at least clumps or single stems arc often found in flower. 



