ARUNDINARIA ANCEPS 
A LOVELY waif, picked up at the sale of a dead nurseryman’s 
effects by Mr. Jordan, the superintendent of Regent’s Park, 
who very wisely bought the whole stock. What was its 
birthplace, how it came here, must remain a mystery ; for 
the only man who could tell the tale is dead, and his 
books destroyed or lost. However, it has fallen into good 
hands, where it will be well cared for, and will be a pleasure 
to thousands in one of the very best of our London gardens. 
I have carefully searched such descriptions as we possess of 
the Indian Arundinarias, and can make it tally with none, so 
I can only surmise that it may be one more treasure from the 
imperfectly ransacked Chinese Flora. Its nationality being 
uncertain, and the species showing no one conspicuous feature 
by which it may specially be recognised, and which would 
lead to the choice of a descriptive name,—though it is 
obviously as a whole perfectly distinct,—I have ventured 
to name it AncrEpPs,! the “ Doubtful” Arundinaria. 
At a little distance the habit of this Bamboo is so like 
that of ARUNDINARIA NITIDA, that the two species might at 
first sight be taken for one another, but there are marked 
differences not difficult to detect: 1st, The stems of A. 
1 Sequor hune Lucanus an Apulus anceps— 
Hor. Sat. ii. 1. 34. 
