11® Indian Forest Records . [Vol. IV. 
APPEN 
Experimental Bamboo Sample Plots taken in the North and West Kanara 
(These figures refer to the Gangavalli, 
SPECIES. 
Serial 
Locality. 
Area 
of 
sample 
plots, 
in acres. 
Class. 
Type of Forest. 
Bambusa arundinacea. 
No. of ex¬ 
perimental ' 
| stems cut. 
No. 
No. of 
No. of 
No. of 
clumps 
counted. 
new 
stems 
counted. 
old 
stems 
counted. 
1 
I 
1 
1 
Compartment 45, Block XXV. Ganga- 
2 
Moist deciduous 
90 
291 
1 
872 ; 
100 
valli Forests, West Kanara Divi- 
forest with many 
sion.. 
Bambusa arundi- 
nucsa. 
2 
Compartment 44, Block XXV. Ganga- 
1 
Ditto ditto 
45 
112 
224 j 
52 
valli Forests, West Kanara Divi- 
03 
sion. 
o3 
3 
Compartment 7, Block XXIV. Ganga¬ 
1 
O 
o 
Moist deciduous with 
110 
206 
335 
102 
valli Forests, West Kanara Division. 
large >clumps of 
S 
bamboos. 
4 
Block XXV, Gangavalli Forests, West 
1 
pQ 
m 
Ditto ditto 
55 
118 
201 
100 
Kanara Division. 
Jj 
5 
Compartment 70, Block XXIV. West 
1 
43 
m 
Ditto ditto 
68 
149 
284 
50 
Kanara Division. 
6 
Compartment 62, Block XXIV. West 
1 
Ditto ditto 
78 
153 
223 
50 
Kanara Division. 
! 
! 
Average per acre in 1st class area 
1 
64 
147 
306 
Average of 
one stem. 
7 
Compartment 8, Block XXIV. Ganga¬ 
1 
c3 
O 
c3 
Dry deciduous 
86 
113 
178 
50 
valli Forest, West Kanara Division. 
O 
O 
rO 
a 
| 
8 
Compartment 9, Block XXIV. Ganga¬ 
2*4 
& 
1 
Ditto 
46 
165 
242 
50 
valli Forest, West Kanara Division. 
o 
d 
<N 
Average per acre in 2nd class area 
1 
39 
82 
124 
Average of 
one stem. 
9 
Gund Forests, North Division, Kanara. 
5 
Moist teak and bam¬ 
boo forest, the 
growth of bamboos 
very fine. 
144 
271 
1,860 
_ 
10 
Average per acre .... 
1 
•• 
29 
54 
372 
Average of 
one stem. 
Note I.—The figures arrived at by enumerations made in the Gangavalli Valley have also been utilized in calculating 
Note II. —New stems’are those which have come into existence in one monsoon but have not passed through a second 
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