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Indian Forest Records. 
[Vol. IY. 
Aeea No. II. (See portion marked E on map.) 
The Kanoth bamboo forests of the North Malabar Forest Divi¬ 
sion of the Madras Presidency. 
(1) Name and Situation. 
These forests are situated in the Kottayam Taluka of the Malabar 
Collectorate, some 20 miles inland from the seaport of Tellicherry and 
directly below the Wynaad forests of the Western Ghats. To the south 
of the bamboo area runs a small stream, known as the Edayer, the 
northern limit being the Tellicherry-Manantoddy high road. 
(2) Description of the forests. 
The area covered with bamboos is extremely limited, so that, were a 
mill to be erected and supplied from this area, it would necessarily have 
to be run on a small scale. The forests containing the baftiboos lie in 
the valley of the Edayer (see map) and though forests extend up the 
range of hills to the south, and also cover the Western Ghats to the east, 
they contain but few bamboos. On the more level ground, to the south 
of the main road and extending up the valley to Nedumboil Chuttram, 
the bamboo growth is in many places extremely fine, and some of 
the culms exceed in size and weight any stems of this species weighed 
elsewere. 
(3) Area of forest covered with bamboos. 
The total area of the block is 19,018 acres ; of this, the forests lying in 
the valley cover some 3,000 acres and are densely stocked with bamboos. 
The rest of the area contains semi-moist-deciduous forest, in which 
bamboos occur, but only scattered here and there in small quantities. 
(4) Species of bamboos and mode of growth. 
The prevailing species is Bambusa arundinacea and therefore the same 
as that prevailing throughout the entire length of the Western Ghats. 
It forms in these forests very fine clumps, containing many large culms. 
The average length of 200 cut stems was 56J feet and 10‘7" mid-girth, 
representing a length of about 10 feet and a girth of 2" in excess of any 
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