124 THE BAMBOO GARDEN CHAP. 
STACHYS VIRIDI-GLAUCESCENS being for ever compared with 
itself,— 
These two Antipholuses, these two so like, 
And these two Dromios, one in semblance, 
were enough to addle the brain of the wisest Duke that ever 
administered the law in Ephesus. 
As a matter of fact PHYLLOSTACHYS QUILIOI is a tall 
bold Bamboo of noble aspect and quite unlike any of its 
congeners. At Shrubland the culms have reached a height 
of 18 feet 6 inches with a circumference of 33 inches. The 
plant has a far looser habit than either P. MITIS or P. AUREA, 
the stems being gracefully arched though hardly as lissome 
as those of P. VIRIDI-GLAUCESCENS and P. FLExUOSA. The 
rhizome, though not quite so active as it is in the two latter 
species, runs far more freely in this country than that of 
P. MITIS or P. AuREA. A distinctive feature in the species 
is the great length of the branches in proportion to the 
height of the culm, which gives a spreading appearance to the 
frondage. The leaves are much larger than they are in 
the other members of the Phyllostachys group, though they 
vary considerably in size. In a portion of a stem before me 
some are as much as 8 inches in length by an inch and 
three-quarters in width ; others are but 2 inches long, but the 
breadth is far greater in proportion than is to be found in 
other species. In the larger leaves there are from seven to 
eight secondary nerves on each side of the midrib. The 
serration of one edge of the leaf is very conspicuous. In 
some cases it is sharp on both edges; it is altogether 
different from the same feature in P. MITIS, AUREA, etc. Nor 
is the colour less distinct, being a dark green often spotted 
