42 Select Plants for Industrial Culture 



Arundo Ampelodesmos, Cyrillo. 



Southern Europe, Northern Africa. Almost as large as a 

 Gynerium. The tough flower-stems and leaves readily available for 

 tying. 



Arundo Bengalensis, Roxburgh. 



China, India. Closely allied to A. Donax. The long panicle 

 beautifully variegated with white and violet (Hauce). 



Arundo conspicua, G. Forster. 



New Zealand and Chatham-Islands. Although not strictly an 

 industrial plant, it is mentioned here as important for scenic effect, 

 flowering before the still grander A. Sellowiana comes in bloom, but 

 not quite .so hardy as that species, still bearing considerable frost. 



Arundo Donax, Linn<$. 



The tall, evergreen, lasting Bamboo-reed of Southern Europe and 

 Northern Africa. It is one of the most important plants of its 

 class for quickly producing a peculiar scenic effect in picturesque 

 plantations, also for intercepting almost at once the view of 

 unsightly objects, and for giving early shelter. The canes can be 

 used for fishing-rods, for light props, rustic pipes, distaffs, baskets 

 and various utensils. Readily flowering when strongly manured. 

 The root is used medicinally in France; ^easily transplanted at any 

 season. Cross-sections of the canes are very convenient, placed 

 closely and erect, for sowing into them seeds of pines, eucalypts 

 and many other trees, seedlings of which are to be forwarded on a 

 large scale to long distances (J. E. Brown), in the same manner as 

 bamboo-joints are used in India. 



Arundo Karka, Roxburgh. 



India, China, Japan. The Durma-mats are made of the split stems 

 of this tall reed. 



Arundo Pliniana, Turra. 



On the Mediterranean and Adriatic Seas. A smaller plant than 

 A. Donax, with more slender stems and narrower leaves, but similarly 

 evergreen, and resembling the Donax-reed also in its roots. 



Arundo saccharoides, Grisebach. (Gynerium saccharoides, Humboldt.) 



Northern parts of South-America. Attaining a height of 20 feet. 

 Like the following, it is conspicuously magnificent. 



Arundo Sellowiana, Schultes. (Arundo dioica, Sprengel non Loureiro, 

 Gynerium argenteum, Nees.) 



The "Pampas-grass" of Uruguay, Paraguay and La Plata-States. 

 A grand autumnal-flowering reed, with gorgeous feathery panicles. 

 As an industrial plant it deserves here a place, because paper can be 

 prepared from its leaves, as first shown by the author. 



