VI PHYLLOSTACHYS VIOLESCENS 141 
marked ligule, convex at the top and fringed. The limbus 
is narrow, varying in length, a dark brownish green in colour. 
As in all the members of the Phyllostachys family, the culm 
sheaths are early pushed aside by the branches, wither and 
fall off. 
At Shrubland the plants are 13 feet high with a circum- 
ference of 2 inches. 
