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green on the upper face, while they show less glaucous colour 
on the lower than is the case with most of the family. On 
an adult stem they vary a little in size from about 2 to 3 
inches in length by about three-eighths of an inch in width. 
They taper to a very fine point, and are attenuated at the base 
to a longer petiole than is usual among these Phyllostachides. 
The tessellation is very distinct, close, and regular. The pale 
midrib is well defined, flanked on either side by sometimes as 
many as Six or seven secondary nerves. One edge is markedly 
serrated, in the other the teeth are rare or absent. The leaf 
sheaths are inclined to be purple in colour, with a much-cut- 
up ligule fringed at the insertion of the leaf with purple hairs. 
The rootstock runs pretty freely even in this climate, and will 
probably develop the power more strongly as the plants 
mature themselves. 
It is to its habit that PHYLLosTacHys HENONIS owes its 
surpassing loveliness. The two-year-old culms, burthened 
with the weight of their own leaves clustering in triplets 
and borne upon innumerable branchlets, bend almost to the 
earth in graceful curves, forming a groundwork of most 
elegant beauty, from which the stems of the year spring up 
in slight zigzag, arching over at the top and waving their 
feathery fronds, the delicate green leaves seeming to float in 
the air. It must be from this quality that it derives its 
Japanese name HaA-CHIKU, the two Chinese characters with 
which it is written, signifying the “light or volatile Bamboo.” 
