et 
Tas. 7146, 
ARUNDINARIA Simoni. Var. variegata. 
Native of Japan. | 
Nat. Ord. Gramines.—Tribe BamBusez. 
Genus ArunpInaRiIA, Michaux; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. iii. p. 1207.) 
ArunpInaRrIA Simoni; culmis ccespitosis gracilibus 12-40-pedalibus, ramulis 
fastigiatis gracillimis teretibus superne floriferis, foliis 6-8 poll. longis 
3-2 poll. latis breviter petiolatis auguste lineari-lanceolatis attenuato 
* acuminatis minute tessellatis basi attenuatis acutis subtus glaberrimis v. 
costa. minutissime ciliolata, marginibus serrulatis, vaginis ciliatis, ore 
pilis elongatis caducis instructa, ligula brevissima ciliolata, spicis sim- 
plicibus rarius divisis suberectis gracile pedunculatis, rachi puberula, 
spiculis 6-10 subremotis 4-1 poll. longis unifloris, gluma inferiore vacua 
solitaria lanceolata acuminata 5-nervi, palea glume equilonga ciliata, 
lodiculis ciliolatis, stylis 2 basi brevissime cunnatis. 
A. Simoni, Rivitre in Bull. Soc. @ Acelimat. 1878, p. 774, figs. 43-50. Les 
5 Bambous, p. 286, figs. 48-47, and p. 288, figs. 4-50, and p. 295. 
is A. Fortunei, Fenzi in Gard. Chron. 1876, vol. ii. p. 773, and Munro l, ce. p. 774 
(sine descript.) (non. Riv.) 
Bambusa Simoni, Carr. 
Var. variegata, foliis viridibus albo striatis. 
Arundinaria Simoni was first described under that name 
by Riviére in 8178, from specimens cultivated at Algiers, 
and which had been sent there from the Jardin des Plantes 
at Paris. It was introduced (in 1862) into the latter esta- 
blishment from China, by Consul Eugene Simon, with 
the information that it was a native of Japan. It had, 
before it flowered, been known as Bambusa Simoni, Carriere. 
The same plant, in a flowering state, and under the name 
of Bambusa Simoni, was sent in 1876 to M. Fenzi of 
Florence, and to Colonel Munro in this country. These 
gentlemen, confounding it with a plant introduced by 
Fortune from Japan, and which was known in gardens 
as Bambusa Fortunei, agreed in proposing for it the name 
of Arundinaria Fortunei, but gave no description. The 
name A. Fortunei cannot therefore take precedence of 
Simoni; added to which there is no evidence that Fortune 
ever saw A. Simoni, and very good evidence that what he 
troduced was a different species. : 
Noyemner 1st, 1890, | 
