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F. Franceschi of the Southern ae ioe Acclimatizing Association, 
Santa Barbara, California. According tv him, this bamboo, which 
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and Mar ab ove 
o be practically identical with them. The original of B. Oldhami 
differs slightly in so far as the branches are “considerably thicker 
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of some of them is of the same kind as in the other specimens. 
B. Oldhami has, like the allied B. kingiana, more the habit of a 
Dendrocalamus, but the floral characters are those of Bambusa, as it is 
understood at present. I may mention here : connection with this 
resemblance, that a part of Hance’s 1050 at Kew, which is quoted 
unro under Dendrocalamus, is in fact a Bambusa, so similar 
to B. kingiana that the small flowering branchlet of which it consists 
cannot be distinguished externally ae it.—Orro STAPF 
1, top of sheath and base a blade; 2, two florets, laid open; 3, an anther ; 
4,48 arate, 5, pistil, All enlarged 
