94 THE BAMBOO GARDEN CHAP. 
internodes are very short, not more than 13 inch, or at most 
2 inches in length, in a culm 3 feet long. The marbled 
sheaths, which are very loosely and irregularly tessellated, 
are very thin, and have an almost imperceptible flat ligule 
(which towards the top of the culm has a number of fine silky 
hairs) and a very minute limbus. The sheaths have, more- 
over, a little very delicate felting at their junction with 
the node. The branches are borne in threes, two short and 
one long, 
and are very long in proportion to the internodes, 
being in such a culm as I am describing as much as from 
7 to 8 inches in length. The leaves are bright green, about 
41 inches long by three-eighths to five-eighths of an inch 
broad. They are serrated on both edges, prettily tessellated, 
and are pinched in at about half an inch from the very sharp 
point in so marked a manner that they seem to terminate in 
a little tongue. The secondary nerves on either side of the 
midrib are four or five in number. The petiole is short, the 
rounded base of the leaves being almost sessile. The rhizome 
is very active, new shoots appearing at a foot or more from 
the main plant. 
The length of the branches, which overlap each other and 
are very upright, gives the dense foliage the appearance of 
being verticillate, and the fully-developed culm assumes the 
shape of a fox’s brush. 
As to the complete hardihood of BAMBUSA MARMOREA it 
is a little difficult to pronounce a verdict. We have hardly 
sufficient experience to judge. It passed unscathed through 
the winter of 1893-94, braving 24° of frost. But the winter of 
1895 killed it down to the ground. It must be said though 
that the season was exceptional in many particulars. The 
