﻿Inventory 50, Seeds and Plants Imported. 



Plate V. 



A Clump of the Tulda Bamboo in Panama (Bambostulda, S. P. I. No. 44240 ). 



A "Wardian case filled with plants of this species of bamboo was sent to Washington in the spring 

 of 1907 from Sibpur, near Calcutta, India, by Maj. A. T. Gage, superintendent of the Royal 

 Botanic Garden there. Two years later plants were sent to Panama and central Florida, a'nd 

 some of these have grown intobeautiful clumps; there is one at Mr. Xehrling's place near Gotha, 

 Fla., and this clump in the Canal Zone. Later, thousands of seedlings from imported seeds 

 were distributed. This species is ranked as one of the most useful plants of Bengal. Its culms 

 are imported to America and used in the making of split bamboo fishing rods. (Photographed 

 at Culebra, Canal Zone, 1917.) 



