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an ordinary border. At Kew there is a specimen 12 feet high. 
According to e it is known as B, mitis in the gardens.of Paris. 
B. mitis, — 4A. magnificent specimen on the lawn at Villa 
Valetta, the ioni 30 feet high and 3 inches in diameter at the base, 
becoming shining yellow with age. e od are prominent and 
about 9 inches apart, the leaves short and not den There is a small 
plant of it at Kew, ‘obtained last year from Lavallée s collection. It is 
said to be from Cochin China. : 
B. nigra (Phyllostachys nigra, Munro 0). —A clump of this, 20 yards 
through and rising to a heig ht of 30 feet, in the garden of Baron Vigier 
at Nice, was one of the mo st striking objects se een on the Riviera ; thou- 
sands of naked shining blackish purple stems rising from the lawns and 
losing themselves in the mass of green foliage above. ‘This species is 
when in a very sheltered situation or under glass, as at Chatsworth, 
Where in the large conservatory it is exceedingly handso ate 
B. quadrangularis, Fenzi.—4A very interesting species from China, 
dimensions are of a clump 6 feet through on one of the lawns at Villa 
Valetta. ga are plants at Kew, both outside and in the Temperate 
House. is a handsome and distinct Bambo uy or an account of it, 
see an article i in Nature, Yu, xxxii. (1885), p. 
B. Quilloi.—I cannot find any tnfordagon p regard to this plant. 
Carriére described a Bamboo in the Revué Horticole, under the name 
of B. Duguilioi, but Munro appears to have referred this to Phyllo- 
stachys puberula, included by him under P. ni — The plant known 
under the above name is a ted at Hyères by a large clump with 
stems 25 feet high, 14 inch in diameter, bright yellow, with a faint 
tendency to become ‘quadrangular. We have a plant of it at Kew. It 
is a most elegant Bamboo. 
. scriptoria, Hort. (B. nana, Roxb.).—I believe that B. scri 
of the Riviera gardens is merely a form of the well-known Wo ice 
B. nana. It has the same dense habit, thin green canes, and sm 
leaves with the underside glaucous, which characterise B. nana. Tn 
some of the specimens seen the stems were 9 feet high. A variegated 
form called B. scriptionis is the same as is grown at Kew as B. nana 
variegata 
B. Simoni, Carr.—A beautiful Bamboo, and, Pegi hardy in Eng- 
land, as is shown by the fine example in the Cambridge Botanic Garden, 
and by the plants at Kew. Itis also very handsome at Hyères, where 
the canes € 15 feet high, quite smooth and cylindrical, less than an 
inch in diameter, and coloured deep o olive green. This plant is worth 
the attention of English horticulturists on account of its elegance and 
hardiness, and its evergreen ¢ ter. 
B. sulphurea.—Apparently a garden name for a very handsome 
Bamboo, with stems 18 feet high, 1j inch in diameter, the pend 
9 inches apart, and the internodes deeply furrowed on one side. 
mature the stems are a rich orange yellow colour. There isa fine 
. B. verticillata.—This is probably the * Male Bamboo ” (Dendrocal- 
' amus strictus, Nees), a common Indian species, the stems of which, 
ording to Munro, are universally used as lance-staves. The speci- 
seen were large clumps, the stems 20 feet high, 1 inch in ig dicaneter, 
the nodes at the base a foot apart, the upper ones bearing each a 
