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specimens of the bamboo were received at Kew from Mr. J. M. 
Wood, Director of the Botanic Garden at Durban, Natal. They 
had been communicated to him by Mrs. W. Putterill, and were 
collected on the Drakensbergen, near Harrismith, at an altitude of 
5,000 to 7,000 feet, 
The examination of the flowering specimens proved that Munro 
was right in referring the species to Arundinaria. A technical 
vil, p. 748. The species is quite distinct from the common 
had gone the round of the English papers and caused enquiries 
concerning the bamboo, the samples received were submitted to a 
wholesale merchant dealing with such articles, The report was 
unfavourable, the conclusions arrived at being that the “ South 
African canes, unless far superior to the samples sent, would have no 
pe in the market in competition with the Chinese.” Mr. Bowker 
imself, however, wrote :—* The bamboos 
natives for spear handles, house-building, 
folds, &e. They can be got from 3 feet to 25 feet in length, and in 
umbrella handles, walking sticks, &c.; the 
