PHYLLOSTACHYS MARLIACEA 
ALTHOUGH there is no classical authority for numbering this 
handsome species among the Phyllostachys group, it is 
impossible to doubt that it must be referred to that genus. 
All those outward characteristics (apart from the flower and 
seed, of which we know nothing) which are found in 
PHYLLOSTACHYS MITIS, AUREA, NIGRA, VIRIDI-GLAUCESCENS, 
etc., are present here, and it would be strange indeed if it 
should prove to belong to any other tribe. Indeed it presents 
such a marked likeness to PHYLLOSTACHYS QUILIOI, that I do 
not think that any expert could tell them apart without 
examining the wrinkled base of the stem to which PHYLLO- 
STACHYS MARLIACEA owes its Japanese name, SHIBO-CHIKU, 
“the wrinkled Bamboo,” and which makes it so useful for 
canes and umbrella sticks. 
I have but one plant of it, for it is a rare Bamboo not 
easily obtainable, which in its third year grew to a height of 
8 feet, and, in spite of the check of last winter, has slightly 
added to its stature and greatly to its bulk in 18965. 
The culm, when freed from its sheaths, is very beautiful in 
colour, shining like dark green enamel. The internodes at 
the base of the stem are very close together, being not more 
than 1} to 2 inches apart. The nodes are well defined. 
