58 THE BAMBOO GARDEN CHAP. VI 
Hong-Kong, and by the kindness of the director I have been 
furnished with a specimen of it. 
The first serious attempt to clear up the fog surrounding 
this difficult subject has been made by Mr. Bean, the 
distinguished cultivator under whose care the collection of 
Bamboos at Kew has grown into a lovely garden, skilfully 
arranged with a view to exhibiting to their best advantage 
the grace and beauty of the plants. In a series of articles, 
which appeared in the Gardeners’ Chronicle in the early part 
of the year 1894, Mr. Bean has very carefully and lucidly 
described the hardy Bamboos in cultivation.at Kew. But 
even he, since those articles were written, has seen reason 
to modify some of the views which he then took as to the 
identity of certain species. The Kew plants have now been 
compared with those of other collections, and with the dried 
specimens in the herbarium, and the result of these investiga- 
tions has been the revision of the nomenclature of the hardy 
Bamboos in accordance with the list given below, which, 
endorsed as it is by the high authority of Kew, may, it is 
hoped, be considered as final so far as the species at present 
in cultivation are concerned. Several of the species have, 
for the reasons given in cach case, been renamed. 
