BAMBUSA ANGUSTIFOLIA 
I HAVE renamed this dainty species, which, so far as I can 
ascertain, has not hitherto been described, on account of the 
obvious convenience of giving it a title by which it may be 
recognised. The French nursery gardeners send it out as 
BAMBUSA VILMORINI. 
It is a lovely lttle Bamboo, perhaps an ARUNDINARIA, 
with very slender, round culms, about a foot in height and 
about a quarter of an inch or less in circumference. The 
piping is exceedingly minute. The nodes, which are rather 
prominent for such a Lilliputian, are from 1 inch to 1} inch 
apart. The colour of the stem is hight green shading to purple. 
The branches are borne singly or in pairs, but as they are 
much longer than the internodes the plant has at first sight 
an appearance of being many-branched. The sheaths, which 
are not very persistent, are slightly downy, and the almost 
imperceptible ligule is armed with a few very fine long white 
hairs. The limbus is very small, as befits the rest of the 
members. The leaves which are from 2 to 43 inches in length 
by from three-sixteenths to a quarter of an inch in width, at 
once suggest the name ANGUSTIFOLIA. They are tessellated, 
serrated on both edges, and sometimes striped with white. 
They taper to a fine point, being pinched in about half an 
