APPENDIX 217 
TAISAN-CHIKU a tropical Bamboo (? B. vuLGARIs) acclima- 
tised in the hotter parts of Japan where 
it only puts forth shoots in late summer. 
Not hardy in this country. 
YADAKE = PHYLLOSTACHYS BAMBUSOIDES. (NV.B.— 
Plants received from Japanese nurseries 
have not proved true to name. ) 
YAKIBA-ZASA (see also SupDzU-) 
DAKE =BAMBUSA SENANENSIS, not to be dis- 
tinguished from ARUNDINARIA VEITCHII 
In time, when more consignments shall have been received 
from Japan, it will be easy to identify all the Japanese names 
with their European equivalents. The difficulty of doing so 
at present lies in the fact that formerly when plants were 
received their Japanese labels were lost or destroyed as 
valueless by European nurserymen who, of course, were un- 
able to decipher them; so the Bamboos were sent out under 
improvised and often inappropriate names, unless indeed they 
had the good fortune to be named by a skilled botanist, 
when some fitness of nomenclature was observed. Another 
stumbling-block has been the great number of provincial 
and even local names in Japan itself, while a third crux 
has been created by the native nurserymen, who have not 
always been over-scrupulous in sending out plants true to 
name. Perhaps, however, it is hardly to be wondered at that 
in a family where the distinctions are often exceedingly 
minute and inconspicuous, there should be almost the same 
confusion among nursery gardeners in the East as in the 
West. The great impetus which has been given to the culti- 
vation of Bamboos in Europe during the last few years will, 
it may be hoped, be an encouragement to greater accuracy 
among the Japanese growers in future. 
It must be borne in mind that TAKE (in composition, 
