40 Hosseus, Botan. u. kolonialwirtsch. Studien über die Bambusstaude. 
a bombao jungle on fire. There was a great deal of noise comparable 
to musketry; but the bamboo were not of the large kind here 
spoken of.“ The Hon. Robert Lindsay describing his elephant- 
catching in Silhet, says: „At night each man lights a fire at his 
post and furnished himself with a dozen joints of the large bamboo, 
one of which he occasionally throws into the fire, and the air it 
contains being by the heat, it explodes with a report as loud as a 
mnsket“ (Lives of Lindsays III p. 191). 
Die Bedeutung der Bambusstaude im Wirtschaftsleben der Völker. 
Für die Bedeutung der Bambusstaude im Wirtschaftsleben 
der Völker möchte ich einem der tüchtigsten Forscher W a 11 a c e x ) 
in seiner Muttersprache das Wort geben: 
,,Düring my many journeys in Borneo, and especially during 
my various residences among the Dyaks. I first came to appreciate 
the admirable qualities of the Bamboo. In those parts of South 
America which I had previously visited, these gigantic grasses 
were comparatively scarce; and where found but little used, 
their place being taken as to one dass of uses by the great variety 
of Palms, and as to another by calabashes and gourds. Almost 
all tropical countries produce Bamboos, and wherever they are 
found in abundance the natives apply them to a variety of uses. 
Their strength, hightness, smoothness, straightness, roundness 
and hollowness, the facility and regularity with which they can 
be split, their many different sizes, the varying length of their 
joints, the ease with which they can be cut and with which holes 
can be made through them, their hardness outside, their freedom 
from any pronounced taste or smell, their great abundance, and 
the rapidity of their growth and increase, are all qualities which 
render them useful for a hundred different purposes, to sewe 
which other materials would require much more labour and pre- 
paration. The bamboo is one of the most wonderful and most 
beautiful productions of the tropics, and one of natures most 
valuable gifts to un civilized man“ usw. 
Während meines Aufenthaltes in den Kew Gardens 
bei London * 2 ) 1911 bearbeitete ich auch das gesamte Material 
in den Museen, das mit dem Wirtschaftsleben der Völker und den 
Bambusstauden zusammenhängt. Ich gebe hier die Beschreibung 
der einzelnen Stücke in Kew, nachdem ich bereits einen Teil über 
die Hüte 3 ) publiziert habe. 
Kleidungsstücke. 
Bei den Chinesen finden wir als häufiges Kleidungs¬ 
stück, vor allem von den Kulis getragen, Bambus -Hemden. 
Wenn es sehr heiß ist, da sieht man diese oft als einzige Bekleidung 
!) W a 11 a c e , The Malay Archipelago. I. pp. 120—126. 
2 ) Auch an dieser Stelle sei den Herren der Kew Museen, vor allem Leutnant- 
Colonel D. P r a i n , mein verbindlichster Dank ausgesprochen. 
3 ) Hosseus, C. C. , Hüte aus Pflanzenstoffen. (Beih. Bot. Centralbl. 
1912. pp. 79—87.) 
