ANNAXS OP THE EOYAL BOTANIC GARDEN, CALCITTTA.
ai-e soon devoured by a small BosfnGhus beetle. They are used for bviikling, scaiioldia^,
the making of mats and baskets, aud when very young, they are, according to
Roxburgh, pickled and eaten.
Pla'I'e No. 2Q.—Bamhiisa Tulda, Eoxb. 1, leaf-branch; 2 & 3, parts of flowering
panicle—0/ natural size; -i & 5, culin-sheaths—retfiwei? considerahly; 6, leaf-sheath; 7,
spikelet when young; 8, do. when older; 9, flowering glumo; 10, palea; 11, loilicules;
12, anthers; 13, ovary, style and stigmas; U , caryopsis—ai/ enlarged. (No. 5 from Kurz'
drawing. No. l i from WalKch's 5027; re$t from fresh specmvens collected in the Koyal
Botanic Garden, Calcntta.)
2. Bambusa notans, Wall. 3IS. in Earl. 5031.
A moderate-sized graceful bamboo, with culms arising singly from a creeping rhizome
much branched above, nalced below. Culms green, smooth, not shining, wliite-ringed
below the nodes, 20 to 40 ft. high, 1-5 to 3 in. in diameter, straight; nodes not much
raised, often hairy, lower ones bearing rootlets; internodes 15 to 18 in. long, thick-walled.
Culm-sheaths rather variable, 6 to 9 in. long, covered on the back Avith appressed
scattered black hairs, the base bearing a ring of soft deciduous hairs; roundedly truncate
at top; imperfect blade of lower nodes and uppermost shoots 8 to 9 in. long and very
broad, that of middle nodes shorter, acute, margins recurvcd, clothed within with
appressed black haii-s, rounded at the base and again decurrent on the top of the sheath,
and bearing large waved auricles, one usually erect, the other decurrent, both densely
fm-nished with long curved bristles; liguh to -2 in. smooth, dentate. Leaoes linearlanceolate,
6 to 12 in. loag, 1 to 1"5 iu. broad; rounded or attenuate at the base into
a -1 to -2 ill. petiole; ending above in a twisted scabrous point; green on both sides
when fresh, when dried white beneath, glabrous above except the scabiid hairs on the
midiib and marginal veins, glabrous or slightly hairy beneath; scabrous on the edges;
mail! vein rather narrow, prominent, pale beneath, secondary veins 7 to 10, intermediate
8 to 9, pellucid glands frequent; leaf-sheaths striate, hairy when young, ending in a
smooth callus aud produced in a falcate amide with a f ew long bristles; liguh elongated,
obtuse, haiiy. Inflorescence a stiff panicle bearing spicate branches with clusters of stiff
erect spikelets in bracteate heads, rachis smooth. . Spikelets many, sterile, or bearing
gemniiparous glumes, f ew fertile, '7 to 1 in. long, glabrous, acute; empty cjlumes 2 to
3, glabrous, mucronate, gemmiparous; fertile flowers 3 to 5; flowering (jlmies ovate,
acute, mucronate, many-neiwed, minutely hairy within; palea flattened, shorter than
flowering glume, ovate, 2-keeled, with the long white ciliar on tho edges of tho keels
pverlapping; rachillce clavate, haiiy and ciliate at the top, uppermost 2 to 3 flowers
usually imperfect. Lodiades 3, broad, obtuse, long fimbriate, fleshy at first, many-nerved,
one narrower than the other two. Btamens sometimes 7, anthers long apiculate or slightly
penicillate at apox. Ovary sub-obovate, stalked, glabrous below, puboscont above; stylo
sliort pubesccnt, stigmas 2 to 3, shortly plumase, twisted, nearly glabrous. Caryopsis
oblong, obtuse, hairy on the top. Munro in Trans. Liiin. SOG. xxvi. 92; Brandis For.
Flora 567. Ba j i b u s a Fa l c o n e e i , Manro in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxvi. 95 (in part). Bambusa,
Wall. Cat. 5030A.
Lower Himalaya from the Jumna to Assam, Eastern Bengal. It is doubtful if this
is really wild west of the Sarda, but it is very common in villages and along roads
and canals in Dehra Diin. In the Sikkiin Hüls it is found up to 5,000 ft.
INDIAN BAMJ3U6M; GAMBLI!. ""
This species is extremely difficult of separation from D. TuUa, Boxb., when flov,-ers
are not available: the leaves and culm-sheaths agreo very ne^ly, and .t rs only m
flower or growing that tho two can bo dislioguishod. The bost drstnrctron rs that
culms, which in B. nula» come singly from a creeping rootstoek, whrlc m B. TuUa
thoT are from a central tuft; but even this is not a constant character. rhe spikelets
are much stifler and shorter and tho bristles of the leaf-shoaths are usually spreadmg,
while those of B. TuUa are generally erect and regular. It is known, aecordmg to
Munro as PeccUe m Sylhet and as BWmli, mukkl in Assam; as MaUo m bikkim. i
have collected, and M.-. G. A. Gammie has sent, specimens from Sikkim under the names
MaJlo« «o4¡-ta» (Lepclia), and Mr. Gammie has also sout a variety with striped culms
under the Lepelia namo Pao-shi-Xns-ying which I take to belong to this species. I also
identify as this tho following specimens sent by G. Mann from Assam:—7oii« imhal
(Assamese) from Sibsagar, Deotans (Assamese) from Kamrup, Wa-malms (Kuki) from
North Cachar, Serin¡Jai (Khasi) from Shillong; but I am by no means sure of the
identification, as any of them might be B. Tulda instead, though they seem to me to bo
more lilie B. v.«hms. After searching, during three years' residence in Dehra Dun, for
Bamlmm Falmieri, Munro, Trans. Linn. Soc. xxvi. 95, I have come to the eonclusion that
the liint given by Munro as to the flowers and by Brandis in For. Flma 508, as
to the leaves, is probably the true state of the case, and that Munro's B. Falconeri
simply consists of tho flowers of B. nutans gathered by Falconer in September 18i0
with the leaves of Dmimalamus Hamilbuii gathered by Falconer in 1S39 and by
Straohey and Winterbottom iu Garhwal. Dtndmcakmus Hamiilmii is undoubtedly tho
largo bamboo of tho Diln and of the villages of the Lower Garhwal Hills, for I have
often found it in flower, and B. nutans is commonly grown with it in the Diin, so
tliat tho mistake is by no means improbable, aud my view is certainly borne out by
an examination of the specimens in Herbaria. I propose, therefore, to omit B. Fakoaen
from consideration in this work.
The culms of JJ. nutans are strong, straight and good, and much esteemed. In the
Dehra Diln the villagers cultivate it by planting offsets, and tho cut culms fetch good
prices. It is a graceful specios worth growing for ornament, and its culms being well
apart, makes it easy to work for profit. It seems to flower only at long inteiwals, for
iu the Diin at any rate there is no record since 1840, but last year (1883) I found
one mutilated clump bearing flowering branches at the base, and this year (1894) I have
found one whole clump iu flower, so it may be about to flower generally.
P l a t e No. St).—Bamlusa nutans, Wall. 1, leaf-branch; 2 & 3, parts of flower
paiiide—0/ natural size; 4 & 5, culm-slioaths fi-om mid-stem and lower nodes—niiiecá to
about i ; 6, leaf-shoath; 7, spikelet cluster with sterile and fei-tile spikelets; 8, flowering
glume; 9, palea; 10, lodicule; 11, anther; 1'2, ovary, style and stigmas; 13, rachilla—
lilarjed. (Nos. 4, 6, 6, from fresh Deln-a Diin specimens, the rest from Falconer's
specimens.)
3. B.u i b d s . 1 i e e e s , Ham. 881; in Wall. Cat. 6026-B.
A large, thickly cajspitoso bamboo. Culms dark green, 60 ft. high, 3 in. in diameter,
smooth; nodes foi-med by a ring consisting of the ba^es of fallen sheaths; internodes
20 in. long, wall "3 to -4 in. tluck. Culm-skiaths 8 to 10 in. long, as much
i n breadth, nearly glabrous, hardly attenuate upwards, somewhat rounded at top;
AKS. HOY. EOT. Gaud. CAI.CL-ITA, VOL. YÍI.