BAMBOOS OF INDI A

Bamboos of India
convolute, glabrous except at the ciliate point. Stamens exserted; anthers narrow, long, apiculate, hairy at the tip.
Ovary ovate acuminate, style hairy, stigmas 3, short, plumose. Caryopsis elliptic-oblong, glabrous except at the long
mucronate apex.
FLOWERING
Wight recorded its flowering in 1847 and 1851 from Nilgiris; Beddome from Anamalai in 1865 and 1871; Clarke from
Coonor in 1870; King from Ochterlong Valley in 1878 and Gamble in 1883 and 1889 from various places in India.
Recently in 1994, flowering was observed on few cultivated culms in Maharashtra.
DISTRIBUTION AND ECOLOGY
This species is endemic to South India and the mountains of South-Central Sri Lanka.
USES
P. monadelpha is found suitable for fencing, thatching and basket making.
Pseudoxytenanthera ritcheyi
Pseudoxytenanthera ritcheyi
(Munro) Naithani, J. Bombay Nat.
Hist. Soc. 87: 440. 1990; Tewari,
Monogr. Bamboo 127.1992. (Fig. 73).
Bambusa ritcheyi Munro, Trans.
Linn. Soc. London 26: 113. 1868;
Oxytenanthera monostigma Bedd. Fl.
Sylv. 233. 1873; Gamble, Ann. Roy.
Bot. Gard. Calcutta 7: 74, t. 65.1896
and in Hook f., Fl. Brit. India 7: 402.
line 73
➤ Fig. 73. P. ritcheyii. A - leafy branch
with spikelets; B - flowering branch;
C - culm-sheath; D - spikelet; E, F &
G - empty glumes; H - flowering
glume; I - palea; J - stamen; K - pistil.
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