376 Select Plants for Industrial Culture and 



Phyllanthus Cheremila, Roxburgh. (Gicca disticha, Lirine.) 



Insular India. A small tree. Hardy in Florida to 27 30', where 

 Mr. Reasmer finds it to be a desirable fruit-tree. The berries 

 are small and acid, serving for jam. Mr. L. A. Bernays admits 

 this plant among those recommended in his work on " Cultural 

 Industries for Queensland," 1883, having tested it as far south as 

 Moreton-Bay. 



Phyllocladus rhomboidalis, Cl. Richard. 



Celery-Pine of Tasmania. A stately tree, often to 60 feet high, 

 with a stem 2 to 6 feet in diameter. The timber is particularly valu- 

 able for the masts and spars of ships. It will only grow to advantage 



i in deep forest- valleys. Dwarfed in alpine elevations. 



Phyllocladus trichomanoides, D. Bon. 



Celery-pine of New Zealand ; Maori-name, " Tanehaha." This 

 tree attains a height of 70 feet, with a straight stem reaching 3 feet 

 in diameter, and furnishes a pale close-grained timber, strong, heavy 

 and durable, according . to Professor Kirk, greatly valued for mine- 

 props, struts, caps, sleepers, water-tanks, bridge-planks and piles, also 

 spars ; the Maoris employ the bark for dyeing red and black and 

 yellow, according to admixtures. It contains from 23 to 28 per cent, 

 tannin and is therefore valued by the tanner, fetching a high price 

 [Prof. Kirk]. This species also ascends in a diminutive form to 

 alpine elevations. 



Phyllostachys bambusoides, Siebold. 



Himalayas, China and Japan. A comparatively dwarf Bamboo, 

 but very hardy ; the yellowish canes available for excellent walking- 

 sticks [Griffith]. 



Phyllostachys mitis, Riviere. (Bambusa mitis, Poiret.) 



China. A handsome hardy Bamboo, much cultivated already in 

 Southern France, where it attains a height of about 20 feet 

 [Naudin] . 



Phyllostachys nigra, Munro.* (Bambusa nigra, Loddiges.) 



China and Japan. Whangee-Bamboo, reaching 25 feet in height. 

 The stems nearly solid and becoming black. Has withstood severe 

 frost in the south of France and at Vienna. Known to have grown 

 16 feet in six weeks. Bamboo-chairs and various utensils made of 

 this species. As many as 600,000 walking-sticks of this plant have 

 lately been imported into England in one year. The total of Bam- 

 boo-sticks exported from China and Japan in one year has latterly 

 amounted to 5 millions. A Japanese species of this bambusaceous 

 genus proved hardy in Scotland. P. viridi-glaucescens and P. aurea 

 are perfectly hardy in England [Munro] ; the latter withstood the 

 severest winters of Edinburgh, with F. [Gorlie] . 



