BAMBUSA NAGASHIMA 
THIS is apparently another dwarf Bamboo, with me very 
small, at present in its third year, but as it has been checked 
by transplanting, it may possibly, with time, increase in 
stature, still it must always be on a very small scale indeed. 
The culms, which are round and slender and of a. purplish 
green colour, are about a foot or 18 inches high, and hardly a 
quarter of an inch in circumference. They are flattened at 
the top. The pipe is very diminutive. The internodes are 
about an inch and a half in length. The nodes are well defined, 
and have a shining purple band round their base, with a 
protection of waxy bloom beneath them. The sheaths on 
the middle and upper parts of the stem overlap the succeed- 
ing node, leaving, however, a portion of their own particular 
internodes bare. The ligule and limbus are very minute, the 
former bearing a tuft of delicate white hairs on either side, a 
feature which is more conspicuous towards the top of the 
culm. The leaves are sometimes as much as 54 inches long 
by three-quarters of an inch broad. They are tessellated, 
serrated on both edges, and bright green in colour. They are 
pinched in towards the top terminating in a fine point, 
round at the base, and having a well-defined petiole. The 
secondary nerves on each side of the midrib are from three to 
