58 Select Plants for Industrial Culture and 



Arundinaria Veitchii, N. E. Brown. 



Japan and even northward beyond Sachalin-Island. Concerning 

 this very hardy bamboo information is extant in the Gardeners' 

 Chronicle of 1889, p. 521. Eldest name, A. kurilensis [Rupr.]. 



Amndinella Nepalensis, Trinius. 



Middle and Southern Africa, Southern Asia, Northern and 

 Eastern Australia. This grass commences its growth in the spring 

 weather, and continues to increase during the whole summer, 

 forming a dense mass of foliage, which grows as fast as it is fed off 

 or cut. In New Zealand it is only a summer-grass, but valuable for 

 its rapid growth at that season and for thriving on high dry land 

 [Dr. Curl]. 



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, Retzius. 



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

 beautifully variegated with white and violet [Hance]. 



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. 

 The leaves serve for rough forage, particularly those of a more succu- 

 lent variety [J. Buchanan]. 



Arundo Donax, Linn4.* 



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

 South- Western Asia and Northern Africa ; indigenous northwards as 

 far as the Danube, hence in some places called the Danubian reed. 

 It is one of the most important plants of its class for quickly pro- 

 ducing scenic effect in picturesque plantations, also for intercepting 

 almost at once the view of unsightly objects, and for giving early 

 shelter ; attains occasionally a height of 30 feet. Comparatively 

 hardy. The canes can be used for fishing-rods, for light props, rustic 

 pipes, distaffs, baskets and various utensils ; also for some musical 

 instruments like clarinets and oboes. 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 arge scale to long distances [J. E. Brown], in the 



