ARUNDINARIA HINDSII 
A VERY distinct and beautiful species sent out by French 
nurserymen as BAMBUSA ERECTA. The Japanese name is 
KANZAN-CHIKU. I have seen it described in French catalogues 
as une espéce de serre, and certainly it was cut down to 
the ground by the exceptional frost of February 1895; but 
as during the summer of the same year it grew again 
more vigorously than ever, both with me and at Kew, in an 
even more unpropitious climate, I have every hope of ac- 
climatising it. But, even should it have to be reduced to the 
rank of a perennial herb, it is well worth growing on 
account of its many distinctions and its ornamental habit. 
Munro only saw a fragment of a culm 18 inches high, and 
his description is therefore necessarily very imperfect, and 
indeed inaccurate. 
The tallest culm which I have seen is about 7 feet high. 
The stem is round and very straight, hence the name “ erecta.” 
The rather long nodes are flat below, and prominent above, 
at the points where the fasciculated branches spring. The 
internodes are from 3 to 7 inches in length, smooth, and 
covered with a beautiful white waxy secretion like the 
bloom on a grape, making a fine contrast with the deep blue- 
green of the whole plant. The branches are quasi-verticillate 
