540 Gramince—Gyucriun, 
most striking objects of the landscape garden, growing in 
dense tufts with narrow coriaceous gracefully recurved leaves 
5 to 7 feet long, and flower-shaft 10 to 12 feet high bearing a 
dense terminal silvery panicle. The female plant is mcst 
sought after on account of its larger and more beautiful flower- 
spikes, due to the feathery stigmas. Other varieties have been 
raised with purplish or yellow panicles, and also one or two of 
a dwarfer habit. South America. 
2. BAMBUSA. 
The Bamboo-Canes are readily distinguished by their jointed 
leaty flexuose branching stems, but those species which will 
endure the rigours of our winters are mere miniatures of the 
tropical species, some of which rise to a height of 60 or 70 feet. 
Although they possess branched stems, they, like all other 
Grasses, only flower once from the same culm; thus the 
appearance of the Hower announces the death of the flowering 
stem. The flowers of must Bamboos are hexandrous. The stems 
are usually hollow and jointed, and when mature of a hard 
woody nature, and the leaves relatively shorter, lanceolate, and 
narrowed at the base. The hardy species or varieties are from 
Japan and China, and seldom attain a height of more than 10 
or 12 feet in the most sheltered situations, and they are only 
suitable for planting in the South and West. 
1. B. Metake, syn. B. Japdiieu.—A dwarf much-branched 
species from 4 to 6 feet high. Leaves dark green, lanceolate, 
very acute, shortly petiolate ; blade about a foot long, sheath 
ample. This species flowers freely in this country. 
2. B. faledta, syn. dArundindria fulcata.—A taller-growing 
hardy species from 10 to 15 feet, or in favourable situations 
occasionally as much as 20 feet high. Leaves bright pale 
green, distichous, linear-acute, about + or 5 inches long. 
3. B. viridi-ylaucéscens.—This is said to be one of the 
hardiest of the taller-growing kind, attaining a height of 9 to 
12 feet. A very beautiful species with yellowish-green glaucous 
foliage. 
4. B. nigra.—A dwart bushy species distinguished by its 
purplish ultimately glossy black stems. 
5. B. Fortinet. dwarf tufted plant from 1] to 2 feet high 
with very slender stems and long linear leaves. There are 
only variegated varieties of this in cultivation, under the names 
variegata and aryenteo-vittite. 
