The plant introduced by Fortune is described (as to 
foliage only) and figured by Van Houtte (Flore des Serres, 
t. 1535) in 1863, that is soon after Fortune’s return from 
his last journey to Japan and China, as “ Bamb. Fortune, 
foliis niveo-vittatis.” Van Houtte says of it, “a charming 
plant, which we find at Mr. John Standish’s, amongst the 
plants brought by Robert Fortune from China.” The figure 
represents a dwarf plant with long cilia on the margin of 
the leaf, which is rounded at the base. Of this, now 
one of the most generally cultivated of all the hardy 
Bamboos, the flower is unknown ; 1t is common in Japan, 
whence herbarium species have been sent by various col- 
lectors, and it is readily to be distinguished from B. Simoni 
by the different habit, broader leaves, finely hairy under- 
neath, and more rounded at the base. It is probably, as 
Miquel has suggested (Ann. Bot. Lugd. Bat. ii, 285) B. 
variegata, Siebold; it is the Arundinaria Fortunet, foliis 
variegatis, of Riviére (in Bull. Socr. d’Acclimat. 1878, p. 797) 
who says of it that in Algeria it grows only twenty to 
twenty-four inches in height, with culms one-sixteenth to 
one-eighth of an inchin diam., and has the habit of a Pha- 
laris. It is B. picta, Sieb. and Zuce. (not of Lindley) 
according to specimens collected by Siebold in Japan, and 
which are preserved in the Kew Herbarium. According 
to the Kew collector Oldham, it is common, quite wild, on 
hills behind Kanagawa. 
It may be well to call attention here to two published 
allied species of Bamboo of which the flowers are unknown, 
they are B, argenteo-striata, Regel. Gartenfl. 1865, 363, 
_ t. 490, f. 5 (a miserable drawing of a single leaf). It1s 
described as having culms four to five feet high, and as 
thick as a swan’s quill, quite glabrous leaves with rounded 
bases, and as differing from B, Fortunei in the want of hairs 
on the margin and nerves of the leaves. It was introduced 
by Maximowicz from gardens in J apan, and may be only 
Fortunei. The other 3s B. viridi-striata, Sieb. mss. © 
André, 11]. Hortiesl. vol. xix. p- 319, t. 108, introduced from 
Japan apparently by both Siebold and Maximovicz, it has 
short slender brittle culms, and leaves broader than those — 
of Simoni and Fortune, striped gold and green, and with 
@ rounded or even cordate base. 7 
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