NATIVES OF CHINA AND JAPAN 
ARUNDINARIA SIMONI 
Tuis, the tallest of our Arundinarias, and, with the exception 
of PHYLLOSTACHYS MITIS, of our hardy Bamboos, was introduced 
into France in 1862 by M. Simon, French Consul in China, 
and named after him by Carriére, who described the plant.’ 
In the Bamboo Garden at Kew old-established specimens 
have reached the height of 18 feet with a circumference of 
3 inches. My own plants in their fourth summer grew to 
13 feet, and, in spite of the disastrous check of the month of 
February, the succeeding shoots last summer (1895) main- 
tained the same height. In warmer climates the young shoots 
usually appear early in May. Here, unfortunately, they do, 
not begin to pierce the earth until midsummer, and, as 
they go on being produced until late in the autumn, the 
result is that a number of culms are born which cannot 
ripen and are surely doomed to die. These are apt to give 
the plant an untidy appearance and, being an eyesore, have 
to be removed. Like most of its genus, ARUNDINARIA SIMONI 
has a round. stem, tapering off and slightly flattened at the 
apex, but less so than is the case in many of the Arundi- 
1 Curiously enough Munro’s monograph of 15th November 1866 makes 
no mention of this species. 
