N. O. GRAMINE®. 
1381 
awn-like, enclosing the three spikelets pales 2 lower one firm, 
d-ribbed rounded on the back and ending in a long stiff awn 
rough with forward prickles lower pale a little smaller than 
the upper bifid-2-veins and with the margins indexed Lodicules 
2 entense hardy stamens 3 exserted ovary hardy on top. 
Stigmas 2-feathers Fruit (the grain) usually with the pales 
adherent to it. 
Uses : — Barley is demulcent, and easy of digestion, and is for 
these reasons much used in the dietary of the sick. In India 
sattu, or powder of the parched grains, is much employed in 
the form of a gruel in cases of painful and atonic dyspepsia. 
In European practice, Barley water, a decoction of the grain, 
is principally prescribed, and is valuable in cases requiring 
demulcent treatment. Dr. Irvine states that in Patna the ashes 
of the leaf are employed in the formation of cooling sherbets ; 
and Stewart writes that the ashes of the stalks are prescribed 
for indigestion in the plains of the Panjub. Preparations of 
malt have acquired some reputation of late years in Europe and 
America, since they are more demulcent and nutritious than 
those of the unmalted barley. Malt extract may be prepared 
by boiling two to four ounces of the germinated and dried grain 
in a quart of water and straining. When hops are added, the 
decoction becomes wort, and acquires tonic properties, which 
have been found especially valuable in cases of debility following 
on long continued chronic suppuration. 
1347. Bambusa arundinar.m, Retz., h.f.b.i., vii. 
395. Roxb. 191. 
Syn. B. orientalis, Nees ; Arundo bambos, Linn . ; 
Sans. : — Vansa, kichaka. 
Vern. Bans, kattang, magar bans, nal bans (H); Bans, 
behur bans (B.); BuSh (Ass.) ; Katanga (Kol.) ; Mat (Santali) ; 
Wah-kanteh (Garo.) Bariala (Chittagong); Magar, n&l (Pb.); 
Wans (Guz.); Kalak, padai (Konkan) ; Vas (Panch Mahals); 
Mand gay (Bomb.); Bh&ns, chansa, bambu (Duk.) ; .Kati wadur 
