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and erect. The leaves, too, stand upright at first, but as they 
grow longer bend over with their own weight. They vary in 
length, some being as much as 9 inches long by about five- 
eighths of an inch broad. Their colour a dark glaucous green, 
of rather a lighter shade on the under side. They taper off to 
a longish petiole at the base, and are pinched in somewhat 
about an inch from the very fine point. They are thicker 
than is the case in most Bamboos, slightly hairy and serrate, 
especially on one edge. The veins are more conspicuously 
and beautifully tessellated than in any Bamboo that I have 
observed. The prominent secondary nerves are in number 
from four to six on each side of the midrib. The leaf sheaths, 
which are very persistent, are slightly hairy on the top. 
This description applies to the plant in a young state. 
I have no doubt that with age its stature must increase 
sreatly, and, at the same time, probably the size of the leaves 
and the length of the internodes of the stems. 
This Bamboo has every appearance of running freely at 
the roots. Hong-Kong is given as the habitat of the species ; 
but Mr. Bean says that it is not included in the Flora of 
that island (Gardeners Chronicle, 24th February 1894). It 
was, however, there that Hinds first found it in 1841. It is 
cultivated in Japan, but I have no knowledge as to whether 
it is indigenous there. 
