Bamboo

the common name for the large tree- gra es belonging to the genus Bambusa, of upwards of thirty species are known, mostly of fhe tropics. Some of them send up from their rhizomes fifty or sixty feet high a single season, and in others one of the hollow may reach a foot in diameter or more three feet in length. They sometimes secrete of silica, known as tabasheer, in their Their leaves are broader and more di talked than those of most, gra es, and flowers more nearly approach the type of having generally three lodicules, perianth-leaves, six stamens, and three carpels. China, Japan, Java, etc. the canes are emf or an infinity of purposes, masts, sails, tables, chairs, flower-pots, etc. Bam borough (Bamsgovas, or BAMBRUGR), ) a village and land, on the The old castle, by Ina, King shipwrecked the Conquest, to Parliament. with their lighthouse—the Grace Darling, Bambouk, Central Africa, of Bambarra, Senegal river a length of mountainous, valleys, where abundantly. unhealthy; dingo race, found and exchanged Bamian, between the on the way known as the feet. In the considerable colo al statues These remains city or Buddhist destroyed by Bampton Salisbury, left now producing delivery of eight part of Lent on the authority the Church, the Creeds, Bampton Lectures. parish in, the county of North umber. coast, about 16 miles from Berwick. alleged to have been founded in 548 JS: ay any es _ eS | 5 |.t 4 7m; J ee. ne aE if tart wan: 1" al y Ry se 1 a: oa) a tied’ Christian fn a appointed the man, Anglican ceo us tropical The veined The branch 50 they sugar food, producing yielded has eee applied area river Wall a chia and produces cattle. copper, It Temesvar, Temesvar. various purpose. borough North amp tons hire, merly representation county. North-Western market neighbourhood, the chief. but of 1469, ment forces, Eastern It valuable climate capital India. miles, Ban. ( 319 Faith. The first appointment was made 1780. The lecturer, who must be at least Master of Arts of Oxford or Cambridge, is for one year by the neads of colleges, year before his lectures are delivered. New- Mozley, Liddon, and other distinguished preachers have been among the lecturers. Ban. [Bayns.] Banana, Musa sapientium, a handsome herb a monocotyledonous plant, long cultivated in and sub-tropical countries for its fruit, sheathing bases of the large, oblong, pinnate leaves form a false stem 20 to 30 feet high. spike of irregular flowers is succeeded by a of 100 to 200 fruits, weighing together from to 80 pounds. The long, berry-like fruits, as ripen, convert nearly all their starch into and pectose, and form a valuable article of the staple food in many. tropical countries, 44 times the weight of food per acre by the potato. The importation of bananas enormously increased of late years. The plan- CM, paradisiac a) is very closely related to the anana.