CHAP.VI PHYLLOSTACHYS MARLIACEA 159 
The grooves caused by the pressure of the branches are very 
distinct. The branches are long and graceful, borne in twos 
and threes, in which latter case one falls off. One branch is 
much longer than the other. The sheaths in their young 
state are a pinkish brown, deeply spotted with dark purple, 
like the sheaths of PHYLLOSTACHYS QuILIoI. They are tessel- 
lated, and have a small ligule and limbus, the former furnished 
with rather coarse brown hairs. The leaves vary in size, some 
being as much as 44 inches long by three-quarters of an inch 
or 1 inch wide, lanceolate, with a fairly long petiole. Both 
edges are serrated, the one more conspicuously so than the 
other. The colour is an intense green on the upper face, 
glaucous on the lower. There are from three to five second- 
ary nerves on each side of the midrib. The scales of the 
tiny buds, which are the embryo branchlets, are tipped with 
a reddish purple colour. 
The habit of the plant is elegant, beautiful both in form 
and colour. The culms, when in the second year the branch- 
lets are fully developed and have all their foliage, bending 
over in graceful arches. 
BAMBUSA MARLIACEA was introduced some years ago from 
Japan, and named after M. Latour-Marliac. It is perfectly 
hardy, and scarcely lost a leaf in the great frosts of February 
1895. In our climate it does not show signs of running 
much at the roots, the culms up to the present all growing 
close together. 
