DHA PHILIPPINE BAMBOOS 
TABLE 8.—Growth of culms of Bambusa spinosa, etc.—Continued. 

Height in meters at first measurement. 

32 23 44 39) 35 27 24 L6G o4'| ° ee 





16 Ey Na aol [SS 2 Pa ae AW 22 15 20 lsat 
AB 19 16 4 56 56 70 eye eG 44 
1.00 70 50 20 | 98 94 1.04 .92| 1.01 97 
1.15 .99 85 74 ao 1.29 1.10 95 | 49) eer 
1.73 1.22 1.07 17 1.73 1.49 1.65| 1.66) 148] das 
ieee ieee 1.34 1.19 1.97 2.09 2.11| 2.33} 208! 1.92 | 
2.09 1.00 1.64 1.23 2.35| 2.06 2.51 | 1.79| 2.13| 2.26 | 
2.26 2.00 1.21 1.79| 2.80 2.25 1.97} 2.23) 2.35] 218 
3.47 2.75 2. 88 2.13 2. 86 2.64 2.89) ~ 2.20) 2.38 | "azar 
| 2.49 2.35 2.24 1.80 1.98 2.63) 2.91 2.36} 2.76| 2.68 | 
1.95 3.07 2.31 2.65 2. 33 2. 43 2.30 2.58| 2.46| 2.94 
1.85 2.61 2.89 2.94 1.93 1.94 1.09 1.49; 174] 1.63 
1.58 2. 68 2.03 2.15 1.11 CE (ac 194| 118] 1.23 
1.06 1.47 1.89 2.57 78 TBilene Gece 90 tie 91 
EP ae: 96 1.43 TP cee ot I 
ee 91 Ho, |\eae TD” SE Oe 

Total height. 
23. 02 24.01 23.79 22. 87 22. 84 22. 62 | 20. 93 | 21.98 22. 93 | 23.05 


From the table it would appear that the period of most rapid 
growth of any individual culm depends rather on the height of 
the culm than on the season. 
The culms for which measurements are given in Table 8 were 
all large or fairly large; smaller culms show slower rates of 
growth, but mature in about the same length of time. 
In Table 9 are given measurements of the growth of culms 
of Bambusa vulgaris. This table is constructed in the same 
manner as the previous table for Bambusa spinosa. The rates 
of growth are slower than those for Bambusa spinosa, as might 
be expected from the fact that Bambusa vulgaris is a smaller 
bamboo. These figures show even more clearly than do those 
for Bambusa spinosa that the time of most rapid growth depends 
more on the stage of the development of the culm than on the 
season. 
