attaining a height of eight to ten feet in the open air, and 
flowering sparingly. In Algiers it is described by Riviére 
as forming rhizomes that bury themselves one and a half to 
two feet, and from which new culms arise in the beginning 
of May, which during the first year are simple, clothed with 
spathaceous sheaths, and attain twenty to twenty-five feet 
in height. Towards the end of the second year these culms 
ramify in whorls from above downwards and flower. The 
. leaves are eight to ten inches long and quite glabrous ; the 
caryopsis is one half to two-thirds of an inch long, and 
resembles that of rye. Flowering specimens of this species, 
under the name of B. Simoni, are in the Kew Herbarium 
from the Jardin des Plantes, from the gardens of Gen. 
Munro, of Sir J. Walrond, of Mr. Ellacombe, and of Mr. 
George Paul of the “ Old Nurseries,’ Cheshunt, Herts ; 
and under the name of B. Fortunei from the temperate 
house of the Royal Gardens, Kew, where it flowered in 
1877; and under that of Maximowiczii variegata from Gen. 
Munro. The specimen here figured is from a magnificent 
plant grown by Mr. Paul in a tub in a Camellia house at 
Cheshunt, the culms of which are fourteen feet high and 
as thick as the thumb. It was procured from France from 
M. Samaurez, under the right name. An authentic speci- 
men from Fenzi of his Fortwnei is also in the Kew Herba- 
rium, and is unquestionably A. Simont.—J. D. H, 
2, under surface gof portion of 
Fig. 1, T fet ea 
eos hep of cheats with See 4, pale; 5, lodicule; 6, stamen 
leaf; 3, portion of rachis of spike and glume ; 
and pistil; 7, pistil:—all enlarged. 
