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Keeper of the Herbarium of the Botanic Wine a pons provi 
ill e 
for many years oceupied by a C. Win He ontin 
Maximowicz’s Flora Tangutica and wor e the Tibetan ME 
of the Herbarium CiMesdnki JBobarovakis Potanin). 
Mr. C. Winkler, an experienced systematic bie a specialist 
for Composite, whose name you have frequen ntly met with in the 
Acta Horti Petropolitani, is timi Chief Boloriak It is his 
duty to secl the plants cultivated in the garden and the 
hot-hous 
In me Rap Bulletin (1896, p. 20) there is the description of a 
new Chinese bamboo, Arundinaria nitida, Mitford. It is reported 
to have Mens raised in Tiphaund from seeds gathered by Potanin 
in N. Szechüan and sent to the Botanic Garden, St. Petersburg. 
The plant tus not been cultivated ies St. Petersburg, nor are there 
herbarium specimens from Potanin. There is only one specimen 
from Dr. A. He Hove viotleltod; communicated by Kew. I asked 
Potanin about this bamboo. He has no sert fei of having 
gathered bamboo seeds, but Mr. M. Berezovski i, who belonged to 
ee 
independently- when. jd ae to him about it, told me that 
the bam question may have been raised from seeds he 
had sent de ‘St. [der sagen 1886. In that year he A ims the 
summer E a n near Tán Cháng, in South Kansu (see 
map of China, 34? N. lat., dde) 104? 25' E. long), and it 
happened that m: bamboos all r und in the country flowered. 
and more, and about 20 feet high, is very common dee 
and the Chinese use it for many Were p y 
Bi roin that the bamboo flowers only once in 100 years, and that 
men remember having heard from their "mendo t that it 
Bowered and seeded. Berezovski tells me that, after the flowering 
had finished, it seeded abundantly. The soil everywhere was 
thickly covered with these seeds, which the natives eagerly 
collected for food. Berezovski found a porridge or bread pre- 
pared of bamboo-seed meal very palatable. The seeds attracted 
many birds, and Berezovski acquired several rare specimens for 
his a élection: After seeding, all the plants died, 
and even the roots. us, the people had to wait several 
for new bamboos shooting up from the seeds. Berezovski then 
sent a ein i recen of these bamboo seeds to St. Peters- 
He does not know what has become of them. I have 
have been forwarded to Kew. Maximowicz, Regel, the chief 
gardener Ender, who knew about them, all are dead. I enclose 
a sample of the bamboo seeds collected in 1886 by Berezovski. 
Do they agree with Henry’s herbarium specimens, which are in 
fruit as far as I remember? Perhaps he collected them in the 
same year, 1886. 
Mr. Berezovski is a clever and Spee em, aie mus 
traveller. Birds are his specialty, but he 
interesting collections of plants and err during his ies expone 
journeys in S. Kansu and North Szechüan, Da and 1892-95 
respectively, which have not yet been worked u 
