390 : BOTANICON SINICUM. 
Li ki, 1, 148 :—Vessels of bamboo used in connection 
of bamboo. 
Shi king, 101:—With your long and tapering Bamb 
rods (ff 42) you angle in the i Ki. 92:—Look at those 
recesses in the banks of the K‘i with their green bamboos 
so dense went, ler, so strong and luxuriant. 303 :— 
a aur like the = riant th eal of ne pine ieee 
P.. XXXVU, 18:—Chu Bamboo. -Ch., XX XV, 67s 
Iuang, LVI, 18. 
—-564,.—Besides the general name for the bamboo, chu, t 
appear in the Chinese Classics some other names referti 
peculiar sorts of bamboo. 
In the Shu nay (108, “Tribute of Yao “Prova 
| Yang chou (present Chekiang, Kiingere Anhui 
read :—After the waters of the marsh of Chin (sup 
to answer to the T‘aihu) had been settled, the bar 
small and large, then spread about. The Chinese text: 
‘siao and $ tang. K‘una AN-Kvo explains tang by 
large bamboo, and sao by ff ¥f, bamboo good for 
K‘une Yina-1a says a small bamboo. 
The Rh ya [43] identifies tang with 7. li 
explains :—A bamboo whose joints are 10 feet apart. Rh 
174, siao identified with 4% [see farther on}. 
The dictionary T's/ yin (Sung dynasty] notices th: th 
‘Was in ancient #5 Ye a river Tang which derived i 
from the tang bamboo. This river has still the same 
The city of Tang yin hien [Northern sei C hang 
is situated on it, 7 
The Chu pu, a treatise on bamboos [3rd or 4th cent 
states that the siao bamboo is produced in ff Lu on 
#8 i Tsou mountain, and that it is used for making 
