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外文翻译 原文 The Past Amd Present Uses Of Bamboo In Jamaica Material Source: Biomedical and Life Sciences Economic Botany Volume 49 Author: John H.Rashford Although it is widely known that bamboos are extremely useful to the people of Asia,their value to inhabitants of the neotropics is not as well recognized. This paper documents the past and present uses of bamboo in Jamaica.Since its introduction to the island,thecommonbamboo,Bambus vulgaris Schrad.themost common bamboo in the world(Farrelly 1984)--has become ubiquitous and is used in a great variety of ways. Some 10 to 16 m in height (Little and Wadsworth1964), this giant evergreen tropical grass grows in clumps formed by many culms clustered together at the base, or in many clumps forming dense stands that in Jamaica are called bamboo walks (especially when framing road-sides). BAMBOO IN JAMAICA Bamboo occurs in Jamaica from sea level to ca 1000 m elevation (Adams 1972). In addition to being commonly cultivated around dwellings (Jamaica Agricultural Society 1954), it is also a giant naturalized weed restricted primarily to river courses, ponds, water holes, roadways, inaccessible hillsides, pastures, and areas in ru-inate, i.e., agricultural land abandoned from cultivation (Eyre 1966; Johnston 1903; Lewis 1965; Symes 1971). Bamboo is now so wide-spread that it is not surprising that there are many Jamaican places called by the rather logical name of Bamboo (Hawkes 1976). One of the best-known is a small town in the parish of St. Ann between Browns Town and Claremont. Another is a village in the parish of St. Catherine which Alex Hawkes (1976) described as a place of hospitable people and charming scenery. The most famous of the bamboo places, though, is Bamboo Walk in the parish of St. Eliza-beth--identified as Bamboo Avenue in some publications (Fodor 1971; Sibley 1978). It is a 4 km stretch of Jamaicas main coastal road between Middle Quarters and Lacovia which is fringed by bamboo