396 : BOTANICON SINICUM. 
(z.)—Culmo tereti subsolido. 
21.—B. sinotake. Usus ad muros struendum. ) Utraque colitur 
pro sepibus vi- - 
22.—B. suwoo tstk ; var. tsintsik. a vis. 
Tsintsik is the Bamb. glaucescens, Sieb., or B. floribunda, 
Zoll. [See Francuer & Savatier, le., LI, 183.) 
23.—B. jatuke. % ff. Ob usum tritissimum pro jaculis: 
nimirum magni estimata. 3 
The # ff (arrow bamboo) is figured in the Phon zo 
[XCV, 3, 4]. We have seen [supra, 564] that the arrow 
bamboo is mentioned in the Chinese Classics. [Compare also : 
Heyy, /.c., 238] Arundo madagascarensis, Kth.] 
* 
(c.)—Culmo sulcato, fistuloso. ‘ 
24.—B. moo soo. i YF or YL Tf. Species culta ob 
soboles jumiores pro cibo maxime queesitos. Culmi adulti_ 
ad elificandum ac fabricandum adhibentur. atthe 
Phon zo, XCIV, 12, 13:—jr ff ff. According to 
Mkne [ Productions véyétales du Japon, 1885, p- 28, 182], 
the bamboos whose sprouts are eaten in Japan are the moso, 
the madake [v. supra, No. 17], the ofetchiku, the hatehiku 
and the metake [18]. Of these the moso and the madake 
are of large size and employed for making various domestic 
utensils, Perhaps the mvo soo is the Bumbuss edulis ae 
Phyllostachys m'tis [Rivibre, Le., 231], which is kno 
in China to furnish edible sprouts. Its large stem is sulcated 
In Algeria, where it is cultivated, it attains a height © 
nearly 50 feet. : i 
25 :—B. hatsik. E:lulis, atque pro baculis ad equitandum- 
-Variat culmo variegato, ooseitsik. oe 
In the Icones ined., VIII, Srepoup figures the B. hatsil 
with the Chinese name yf /f (insipid bamboo). Compan 
the Phon zo, LIL, 5, % ff Zi (edible sprouts) 5 also XC 
