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INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 
eruptions, leaves emenagogue, and the tabashir is useful in 
paralysis and flatulence. (Balfour’s Cyclopedia Vol. I., 261.) 
"Tabashir is a cooling medicine, generally given in fever 
to assuage thirst, also expectorant.” (Barren, Bhuj, “ Used as 
a medicinal ingredient in cases of diarrhoea, dysentery, &c.” 
(Mr. Darrah, Assam.) 
1348 . Dendroealamus strietus, Nees. h . f . b . i ., vii . 
404 . 
Syn. : — Bambusa 3tricta, Roxb. 193. 
Vern. : — Bans; bans kaban ; bans khurd ; kopar (H.) ; 
Karail (B.) ; Matban ; saring ; burumat (Kol) ; Halpa ; veddar ; 
vadur (Gond) ; Bas ; udha (Bomb.); Bhovarlit (Mar); Kanka; 
Sadhanapu vendaru (Tel.). 
Habitat : — Throughout India. 
Arborescent unarmed Bamboos with densely branching 
root-stocks. Stems 10-50 ft. by 1-3 in. diam, hollow in most 
climates solid in dry, young glancous green old yellowish nodes 
swollen lower often rooting, internodes 12-18 in. upper 
branches decurved. Stem sheathes variable lower 3-12 in. 
glabrous or strigose with yellow brown pairs, striate top 
rounded ciliate, slightly auricled blade triangular hairy especi- 
ally within ligule narrow. Leaves deciduous narrowed from 
the rounded petioled base to the twisted tip, midrib prominent 
nerves 3-6 pair with interposed pellucid glauds. Sheath 
striate hairy callus prominent auricle shirt ciliate with flexuous 
deciduous hairs ; ligule narrow, serrate. Pancile large leads 
dense, i-l|| in. much smaller M.S. forms. Rachis smooth inter- 
nodes 11-2 in. Spikelets usually hairy, ovary stipitates turbinate 
style long stegma simple, feathers Grain broadly ovoid shinong 
beaked hairy above. 
Uses: — The silicious matter found near the joints is officinal, 
and used as a cooling, tonic and astringent rriedicine. The 
leaves are given to animals during parturition, from a supposi- 
tion that they cause a more rapid expulsion of the placenta. 
