VI PHYLLOSTACHYS QUILIOI _ , hee 
with brown, the lower face very glaucous. The petiole is 
relatively long and well defined, springing from a rounded 
base, while the sharp point is much curved to one side, 
The leaf sheaths, which are purple at the tips, are fringed 
with a quantity of coarse, long, bristly hairs. The ligule 
is long and rounded. 
The sheaths which envelop the culm form one of the 
most peculiar features of the species. They are of a pinkish 
brown colour deeply mottled with purple spots, such as are 
sometimes found in the sheaths of P. mitis, but far more 
intense. The ligule is not very conspicuous, the limbus long, 
narrow, and dark in colour. As the sheaths fall, pushed 
aside by the branches, they reveal a most brilliantly polished 
dark green stem with very salient knots stained with purple. 
The two branches grow with great rapidity, the longer one 
reaching three times the length of the internode within the 
groove of which it was once so tightly imprisoned. 
The bud scales are green at the base, pinkish brown 
round the edges. 
I think I have pointed out sufficient characters to show 
cause why PHYLLOSTACHYS QuILIoI should be considered a 
distinct species. ‘To me it is a Bamboo to be recognised among 
a thousand, and I have shown it now to many distinguished 
botanists who have, without exception, adopted the same view. 
P. QUILIOI is also known by the synonym Mazeti after 
M. Mazel, in whose garden near Anduze (Gard) it has, 
according to Messrs. Riviere, attained noble proportions. 
The name QUILIOI was given to commemorate its first 
introduction into Europe in the year 1866 by the French 
Admiral, Du Quilio, who brought it from Japan. 
