ARUNDINARIA CHRYSANTHA 
A SEMI-DWARF, capriciously variegated Bamboo, by some 
experts thought to be a variegated form of ARUNDINARIA 
HUMILIS, though it is an altogether taller plant. It differs 
materially from the golden ARUNDINARIA AURICOMA (p. 100), 
inasmuch as the lower surface of the leaf is markedly ribbed, 
and lacks the soft velvety down of the later species. On the 
other hand, the down on the sheaths is very conspicuous ; 
moreover, it is far less brilliant in colour, and the variegation 
is occasionally rather muddy ‘and uncertain, a great portion 
of the plant retaining a uniform green colour, the brightness 
of which is clouded and dimmed by the tendency to variega- 
tion. Like ARUNDINARIA HUMILIS, ARUNDINARIA CHRYSANTHA 
runs freely at the roots, which ARUNDINARIA AURICOMA does 
not appear likely to do. 
The highest culms which I have seen are from 44 to 53 
feet high, but it will probably exceed that growth in time. 
The stem is fistulous, very slender, and round. The nodes . 
are not prominent, but have rather a sharp lower rim, and 
the internodes are rarely more than an inchin length. The 
branches are numerous, giving an appearance of verticillation 
to the stems. The sheaths are very hairy on one edge. The 
ligule is conspicuous and fringed with delicate hairs. The 
