ARUNDINARIA FALCONERI or THAMNO- 
CALAMUS FALCONERI 
A TALL and singularly graceful Bamboo, growing to a goodly 
height in favoured localities even in the British Isles. But 
in the Midlands it is sadly dwarfed, rarely growing to a 
height of more than 8 feet, and is cut down to the roots 
every year by the winter’s frosts. Indeed, in many places 
it seems to dwindle away, year by year throwing up feebler 
shoots, until it finally disappears. It is, however, so beautiful 
where it does succeed, even in its less vigorous form, that 
it is worth a trial in a sheltered nook. In the year 1895 
I saw a lovely specimen in a Surrey garden, where, dying 
down every winter, it makes a most graceful growth of about 
8 feet in the early summer. When I saw it in the month 
of September it was a perfect picture of elegance. The 
tapering culms are very slender in proportion to their height, 
and both stems and foliage are of a most brilliant green. 
The internodes of the culms are thickly covered with a 
white waxy bloom. The leaves are about 4 inches long, 
narrow, thin, pointed, and petiolated, with striated venation 
on the upper surface, and having, according to Munro, a few 
inconspicuous transverse veins on the lower surface very 
far apart, but I have not been able to detect these. The 
edges are slightly serrated. The secondary ribs or nerves 
