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A. jaleata, var. glomerata.— This also grows in the Temperate 

 House and flowers almost every year on a certain number of 

 culms, but the plant as a whole does not suffer. According to 

 Gamble this sporadic flowering is characteristic of the type in 



a wild state. 



Mitford).— The first intro- 



i a- * li • T v UV7U1UD > jMLwjwru,). — xiie ureu intro- 



duction of this species to Britain took place apparently in 1847. 



Mr 



from 



t • i. j r^ ~ V v«.~mv, U v V4.vwwu jxiuDL ur an ui tnu plants in 



Irish and Cornish gardens were derived. In the same year seeds 

 were obtained by Van Houtte, and in 1848 young plants were 

 offered for sale by him. Nearly all these plants flowered simul- 

 taneously in 1876 by which time the species was cultivated in 

 most European countries and in the United States. The plants 

 aied but produced seeds freely and from them the present 

 generation of plants was raised. 



The flowering of Arundinaria Falconer^ however, like that of 



many 



m various places or even in the same place, flower during one 

 nZT T ' f Lie . ut -- C °lonel Prain has noted the same thing in the 

 Bamboo forests of the East. Although the general flowering of 

 a species may occur in one particular year, it is heralded by the 

 nowering of a few forerunners the previous year and followed by 



t^t ff 5 gard ^ the next ^ The y ear 1H76 was th0 sreat flowering 

 ffA A ™™\™aria Falconeri and our specimens show that 



& no ^red then at Kew, Mount Edgcumbe, and wild in 



ntwl ,V T? 1 ?! P i a ?r tS had flowe red at Trentham in 1875, whilst 

 others at Holland House did not flower until 1877. 



m^^T a J *?!, Present time to be in the mid 8t of another but 

 Kew S?^ 6d fl flowerin g P eri «d. As long ago as March, 1903, 

 irln a t Rii flow l nn ff. specimens from Mr. J. C. Hawkshaw's 



ihl late hS ?S 0n i be '^;P h0 ^ k : in 1904 the ? were received from 

 T nrr T,? i ^^ Ellis of Frensham Hall, and in 1906 from 



nlant, a T^° W K S ^i 1 at Derreen ' Kenmare ; but none of the 

 plants at Kew have yet flowered generally. 



over K be T te 5 that ' 4 * Fa lconeri does not always flower 



during IIS Tltlmt ° ne time - 0dd culms flowered at Kew 



Kew fn°™m lUa \ ™ uriT0 — Flowered in the Temperate House at 



Glalnevin ll an . b 2 re ^ A11 the Kyw P Jant « ** d > but at 

 S^ecov^eT W6red at thG Hftme time > 80me died Whil8t 



tht'JmeT™?' Mnnro—Flowered in the Temperate House at 

 tne same time as the preceding, and died also. 



DotthTfe? ieb - f Zncc - (Bambusa Metake, Sieb.).-In L:tdy 



at Florence in iR?y % T "4?"ot r,>nzi also records its flowering 

 the Kew S.w W ( ? ard ' Chron " 1872 > P- 1228). Specimens in 

 me Kew Herbarium show that it was flowering in Japan in 1877. 



Kew inT899. Sa ' Munro — lowered in the Temperate House at 



