398 BOTANICON SINICUM. 
North-China Herald, 1882, p. 306. See also Rrvibre [315] 
Bambou carré. ; 
Szct1o B.—Sasa. Cutmo Smmprict Herpaceo. 
See above the quotation from Amen. exot., 899, where 
sasa is given as an equivalent for the Chinese classical term | 
4% (small bamboo of the Shu). 
32.—B. kumasasa 8, |]j 8 ff (white mountain bamboo). — 
Varietas Fuirino kumsasa sive Jakiwasasa. Culta pro sepibus — 
septisque lacuum. is 
Compare supra, Coma sasa in Amen. eot. and in the Phon 
20, under ##@, XVI, 8,9. This is the Bambusa kumasasa, Zoll., 2 
Franoner & Savarimr. lc. II, 184. But Phyllostachys bambue 
sordes, 8. & Z., is likewise called kumasasa by the Japanese. — 
Francoer & Savatier, I.c., 11, 182. Under the Chinese — 
name 3% jo, P. [XV,75] describes a plant of Southern China — 
which has the appearance of a small bamboo. The young — 
shoots resemble those of reeds, The leaves are dark green, 
but pale on the under side, soft and fresh at all seasons of the 2 
year. The people in the south make hats of them; they eS. 
_ are used also for wrapping up tea, salt and balls of cooked 
_ glutinous rice. Women put them in the soles of shoes 
W.D. [296] calls this bamboo Bambusa latifolia, an arbitrary 
identification, for B. latifolia is a species from tropical 
America. According to the Shuo wen, jo properly means ~ 
skin of the bamboo. 
33.—Bambusa ginmei sasa. Culta pro sepibus septisqu 
lacuum. : 
