Inventory 50, Seeds and Plants Imported. 



Plate V. 



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A Clump of the Tulda Bamboo in Panama (Bambos tulda, S. P. I. No. 44240' 



A Wardian case filled with plants of this species of bamljoo was sent to Washington in the svji'ing 

 of 19(17 from Sibpnr, near Calcutta, India, bj' ilaj. A. T. Gage, superintendent of the Royal 

 Botanic Garden there. Two years later plants were sent to Panama and central Florida, and 

 some of these have grown intobeautiful clumps; there is one at Mr. Xehrling's ])lace near Gotha, 

 ria., and this clump in the Canal Zone. Later, thousands of seedlings from imported seeds 

 were distributed. This species is ranked as one of the most useful plants of Bengal. Its culms 

 are imported to America and used in the making of split bamboo fishing rods. (Photographed 

 at Culebra, Canal Zone, 1917.) 



