CHAP. VI PHYLLOSTACHYS HETEROCYCLA 161 
(1895). But the plants which were received from Japan 
had only vertical roots without a scrap of active rhizome, and 
this must be developed before any stem buds can be formed. 
I have every hope that next summer new shoots may make 
their appearance, and that we may be able to claim the plant 
as thoroughly established. 
It appears to be likely to grow into a tall Bamboo of the 
stature of PHYLLOSTACHYS MITIS, and perhaps equally slow 
to make a start ina new home. The branches are borne in 
twos and threes (the third falling off), one much longer than 
the other. The internodes are grooved by the pressure of the 
branches. The leaves are small, from 24 to 4 inches long by 
half an inch wide. They are bright green on the upper surface, 
glaucous on the lower, minutely tessellated, serrated more 
on one edge than on the other. They are finely pointed, and 
the petiole is well defined. The secondary nerves on either 
side of the midrib are from three to four in number. My 
plants having made no new growth I have only seen the 
sheaths of the branchlets, which have a ligule rather large in 
proportion to their size, but hairless, with a very small 
limbus. As might be expected from their glaucous colour, 
the lower surfaces of the leaves have a very fine covering of 
silvery hairs. The upper surface is practically smooth. 
I believe that the first living plants of this species 
introduced into England were those received here and at 
Kew from Japan in the winter of 1893, though it was 
shown at Paris at the great Exhibition of 1878, and named 
HETEROCYCLA by Carriere. 
