68 THE BAMBOO GARDEN 
ARUNDINARIA SIMONI, var. STRIATA 
Rather less in stature than the type, from which it differs 
mainly in having the foliage striped with a silver variegation. 
This, however, is very variable and not to be depended upon. 
The rhizomes are quite as rampant as those of the type, and 
equal caution must therefore be observed in selecting a place 
where it may run about without doing mischief. It is some- 
times sent out by nursery gardeners under the erroneous 
names of BamBuSA PLIcATA and BamBusA MaAximowiIczi. It 
flowered but did not seed in Mr. Smith-Barry’s garden in 
Fota Island, Co. Cork, in the year 1893. I very much 
doubt whether it be right to separate Srriata from the type. 
The variegation is as often absent from the former as it is 
present in the latter. 
The Japanese name NARIHIRA-DAKE (BAMBUSA NARIHIRA, 
Marliac) is a synonym of ARUNDINARIA SIMONI. It was so 
named after Narihira, the hero of a romance of the eleventh 
century called the Jsé Monogatari, one of the classics of 
Japan, written in prose, with poetry interspersed. The name 
of the author is not known. BAmBusa NARIHIRA is sent out 
by certain nursery gardeners as a distinct species, but there 
is no doubt as to its identity with ARUNDINARIA SIMONI, and 
the distinction cannot be maintained. 
