392 BOTANICON SINICUM. 
Hian by large and small bamboos. The Chu pu says that 
kin and lu are two names; the fin and the J are black 
bamboos, good for arrows. The first is also mentioned in the 
Shan hai king. The name lu, according to the Shuo wen, is 
also written $§ lu. | a 
Several other ancient names for bamboos are met within — 
the Shan hai king. 
7 Kui chu, also written #E ff kui chu. The Shan hai 
king says it is very poisonous. Kuo P‘o explains that this — 
bamboo grows in the district of #E [J Kui yang (in Southern 
Hunan). It is 40 feet high and 1 foot in cireumference. 
3k 7 Fu chu. Kuo P‘o says it is the same as the A 4g 
k‘iung, a bamboo with high (distant) joints ; the culm is solid 
(not hollow) ; it is fit for walking-sticks, whence the name 
tk % 7% fu lao chu (bamboo for an old man to lean on). 
%i Mei, a bamboo repeatedly mentioned in the Shan hai 
king. Kvo P‘o says:—This bamboo now grows in ue 
Han chung (Southern Shensi) ; it is thick inside, the joints: 
are distant. Its sprouts, which come out in winter, are eaten 
by the people. [Comp. supra, 373]. be 
See also the bamboos mentioned in the Rh ya 169-174]. 
That is all we know regarding the bamboos mentioned i in 
the ancient Chinese records, Most of those ancient names 
have most probably disappeared for a long time from the 
Chinese language. on 
565.—A. Rivibre, in his admirable monograph on ambos 
[Les Bambous ; Paris, 1879] notices 23 species of the tribe 
Bambusee (genera Bambusa, Arundinaria, Phyllostachys) . 
known to our botanists as coming from China, for the greater 
part from Canton and Hongkong, But the number of distinct 
species of bamboos growing in China is, no doubt, much larger. 
Phyllostachys nigra, Munro, Ph. bambusoides, 8 S. & Z., Bam 
busa nana, Roxbg., B. dumetorum, Hance, are dwarf species 
