Contents: Preface. Introduction. 1. Bambusa bambos (l.) voss. 2. Bambusa bambos var. gigantea (Bahadur and Jain) Bennet and R.C. Gaur. 3. Dendrocalamus strictus (roxb.) nees. 4. Ochlandra beddomei Gamble. 5. Ochlandra ebracteata Raizada and Chatterjee. 6. Ochlandra keralensis Muktesh, Remesh and Stephen. 7. Ochlandra scriptoria (dennst.) C.E.C. Fisch. 8. Ochlandra setigera gamble. 9. Ochlandra sivagiriana (gamble) E.G. Camus. 10. Ochlandra soderstromiana Muktesh and Stephen. 11. Ochlandra spirostylis Muktesh, Seetha and Stephen. 12. Ochlandra travancorica var. hirsuta gamble. 13. Ochlandra travancorica var. travancorica (bedd.) Benth. ex gamble. 14. Ochlandra wightii (munro) C.E.C. fisch. 15. Pseudoxytenanthera bourdillonii (gamble) H.B. Naithani. 16. Pseudoxytenanthera monadelpha (thwaites) soderstr. and R.P. Ellis. 17. Pseudoxytenanthera ritcheyii (munro) H.B. Naithani. 18. Pseudoxytenanthera stocksii (munro) H.B. Naithani. 19. Schizostachyum beddomei (C.E.C. Fisch) R.B. Majumdar. 20. Sinarundinaria densifolia (munro) C.S. Chao and Renvoize. 21. Sinarundinaria floribunda (thwaites) C.S. Chao and Renvoize. 22. Sinarundinaria microphylla (munro) C.S. Chao and Renvoize. 24. Sinarundinaria wightiana (nees) C.S. Chao and Renvoize. Field key to bamboos of Kerala. Literature cited. Glossary. Index to species names.