170 THE BAMBOO GARDEN CHAP. 
on the lower side on either hand of the midrib are from two 
to three in number. The leaf sheaths are smooth, as it were 
cut short at the top, without any fringe, and having an 
elongated ligule, slightly hairy on the back (Munro). 
Habitat, N.-E. and N.-W. Himalayas. Altitude, 7000 to 
9000 feet. 
The confusion between ARUNDINARIA FALCATA and THAM- 
NOCALAMUS FALCONERI has been very general. The majority of 
the plants hitherto cultivated in this country as ARUNDINARIA 
FALCATA have proved to be THAMNOCALAMUS FALCONERI. Mr. 
Osborne, gardener to Mr. Smith-Barry, at Fota Island, Co. 
Cork, informs me that the late General Munro identified the 
specimens grown there under the former name as true THAM- 
NOCALAMUS FALCONERI. The so-called ARUNDINARIA FALCATA 
flowered in the gardens of the Luxembourg, in the South 
of France, and at Algiers in 1876. Mr. Smith-Barry’s plants 
flowered and seeded at the same time; it is, therefore, 
probable that the mistake in nomenclature was universal, 
and that all these plants were truly THAMNOCALAMUS FAL- 
CONERI. Indeed, if Munro is right, and so far as I know 
this has never been called in question, ARUNDINARIA FALCATA 
is simply a perennial herb, flowering, fruiting, and dying 
every year, and shooting again from the stool in the spring. 
The French and Algerian plants are spoken of in quite 
another category, as plants with which flowering, fruiting, and 
death constitute a rare phenomenon. Messrs. Riviére them- 
selves seem to have had personal experience of only one 
of the two species, and I cannot but think that they have 
fallen into the common error of confounding THAMNOCALAMUS 
FALCONERI with ARUNDINARIA FALCATA. It may seem pre- 
