PHYLLOSTACHYS BAMBUSOIDES 
Many and various are the impostors that have laid claim to 
this title, ARUNDINARIA SIMONI especially being a pretender 
to this or any other name. From Japan under this designa- 
tion I received YA-DAKE, the “ Arrow Bamboo,” which turned 
out to be nothing but Mi&TaKE under another name; and for 
a long time PHYLLOSTACHYS VIRIDI-GLAUCESCENS was made to 
do duty for this species, even in Botanic Gardens. But at 
last the real Simon Pure has been brought over from Hong- 
Kong, and the cheats are all sent out of court discredited and 
put to shame. 
In some essential features PHYLLOSTACHYS BAMBUSOIDES 
differs from all the members of the Phyllostachys group which 
have reached us. It has been described as a czespitose plant, 
whereas a leading characteristic in all the others is the active 
rhizome. The branches, instead of being much longer than 
the internodes, are comparatively short, and whereas in the 
other Bamboos of the family the branches are so disposed that 
the shortest of the three. (where, indeed, the third is not 
wanting altogether) is in the middle, in this case it is the 
longest of the three branches which occupies that position. 
In its native home the culms are said to grow to a height 
of from 10 to 12 feet. With me in their second year 
