PHYLLOSTACHYS BORYANA 
THis beautiful species is considered to be, like P. NIGRO- 
PUNCTATA, a variety of PHYLLOSTACHYS NIGRA. It is larger 
and bolder than either of the other two species (if, indeed, 
they may be reckoned as separate species), and is one of the 
handsomest and most vigorous of all the hardy Bamboos ; 
indeed I should place it with P. HENoNIS and P. VIRIDI- 
GLAUCESCENS in the very front rank for beauty and elegance. 
They are the three Graces. The culms in this Bamboo differ 
from those of the type, and of PHYLLOSTACHYS NIGRO-PUNCTATA, 
in their colour, which, green at first, in their second season 
ripens into a rich yellow, duller than that of the culms of 
P. AUREA or P. MITIS, and splashed here and there with 
purplish brown blotches. The bud scales at the axils of the 
branches are very different from those of P. NIGRA and P. 
NIGRO-PUNCTATA, being of a pale yellowish green. The habit 
of the plant differs greatly from that of P. NIGRA and P. 
NIGRO-PUNCTATA, the branches being far longer in proportion 
to the length of the culm. Altogether, it is a puzzle to me 
why it should be accredited with such near relationship to 
species which it is so strangely unlike in many essential par- 
ticulars. As regards hardihood, it is quite as trustworthy as 
P. NIGRO-PUNCTATA. I have never lost a plant, though my 
