ARUNDINARIA PUMILA 
A VERY pretty and ornamental little dwarf Bamboo. At 
first one might be tempted to confound this species with 
ARUNDINARIA HUMILIS, but closer observation leads to the 
conviction that it is quite a distinct plant. It is less tall, 
the leaves are a darker green, shorter, and not so broad, and do 
not taper so gradually to a point as those of ARUNDINARIA 
HUMILIS. The tessellation is closer, the teeth of the serrated 
edges are, if anything, less conspicuous, and the nodes are less 
well defined and far less downy ; but, on the other hand, they 
have a waxy bloom not to be found in A. HUMILIS. The 
stem is much more slender and more entirely purple, except 
quite at the base. 
The culms are about 15 inches high or rather more, round, 
and fistulous, very slender, about three-eighths of an inch in 
circumference, slightly flattened at the top. The nodes are 
not prominent, but well defined, with a deposit of waxy 
bloom on the under side. The internode is about 23 inches 
long. The upper sheaths are very hairy at their base, but 
this feature is not present in those at the lower end of the 
culm. The ligule and limbus are small, the former without 
hairs, except towards the top of the stem where the sheath 
ends in a true leaf. The culms are not much branched. 
