ARUNDINARIA AURICOMA 
A DWARF Bamboo, with exceedingly brilliant golden variega- 
tion, very ornamental, and worthy of a conspicuous position. 
The culms are about 3 feet in height, round and shght in 
structure, being only about a quarter of an inch in circum- 
ference. They are fistulous, but the piping is very diminutive. 
The colour of the stems is purple. The nodes, which are not 
prominent, are from 3 to more than 5 inches apart. The 
lower rim of the node is dark and shining. The sheaths 
are hairy at the base, and have the edges fringed with 
delicate hairs (hardly visible except under a lens), more on 
one side than on the other ; they show very rare cross veins, 
are tipped with a very narrow ligule and a tiny limbus which 
is soon lost. On either side of the ligule is a tuft of two or 
three curly hairs. The branches, which are long in proportion 
to the height of the culm, are borne singly, or more rarely in 
pairs. The leaves, which are boldly striped with bright yellow, 
are from 5 to 7 inches in length by 1 inch in breadth ; they 
are pinched in at about half an inch from the sharp point, 
more conspicuously on one side than on the other. The base 
is rounded, and ends in a well-defined petiole. Both edges 
are serrated, but the teeth are sharper on one side. A marked 
character of the leaf is the velvety softness of the under 
