450 Select Plants for Industrial Culture and 



Pseudostachyum polymorphism, Munro. Himalaya ; ascends to 



6,000 feet. Very tall. 

 Teinostachyum Griffithi, Munro. Tall and slender. Referred by 



Knrz to Cephalostachyum. 



Besides these, various others are specially enumerated in the 

 alphabetic sequence of this work. See index also. 



Schizostachyum brachycladum, Kurz. 



Sunda-Islands and Moluccas. Stems at length 40 feet high, very 

 hollow. The short branches give to this Bamboo a peculiar habit. 

 One variety has splendidly yellow stems. 



Schizostachyum elegrantissimum, Kurz. 



Java ; at elevations from 3,000 to 6,000 feet. Unlike all other 

 Bamboos, this bears flowers at an age of three years, and is there- 

 fore of special importance for scenic effect. Height 25 feet ; stems 

 stout. It requires renewal after flowering, like many allied plants. 



Schizostachyum Hasskarlianum, Kurz. 



Java. This and S. serpentinum afford the best^kiiids of Bamboo- 

 vegetables for cookery ; the young shoots, when bursting out of the 

 ground, being used for the purpose. Kurz mentions as culinary 

 " Rebong" -Bamboos : Gigantochloa aspera, G. robusta, G. maxima, 

 G. atter. For ornamental culture the same meritorious writer 

 singles out: Schizostachyum brachycladum, the varieties of Bain- 

 busa vulgaris, with gaudy and glossy coloring of the stems, in con- 

 trast "with the black-stemmed species of Phyllostachys from China 

 and Japan. 



Schizostachyum irratuxn, Steudel. 



Sunda-Islands and Moluccas. Stems to 30 feet high, remarkably 

 slender. 



Schizostachyum Zolling-eri, Steudel. 



Hills of Java. Much cultivated. Height to 35 feet ; stems 

 slender. 



Schkuhria abrotanoides, Roth. 



From Peru to Argentina. This annual herb yields locally an 

 insecticidal powder. 



Schoenocaulon officinale, A. Gray. (Asa-Graya afficinalis, Lindley j 

 Sabadilla officinalis, Brandt and Dierbach.) 



Mountains of Mexico. A bulbous-rooted herb with leafless stem '> 

 thus far specially distinct from any Veratum. It furnishes the 

 sabadilla-seeds, and yields two alkaloids, veratrin and sabadillin ; 



