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116768. PHYLLOSTACHYS SP. Bamboo. From China. Collected by F. N. Meyer, 
Bureau of Plant Industry. A hardy running bamboo, up to 25 feet high, with dense 
foliage. The leaves are somewhat narrowly lanceolate, 2 to 5 inches long and 5/16 
to 4 inch wide, usually 2 to 5 on a twig on new culms and reduced to 2 or 3 on 
twigs of older culms, but the twigs are numerous. The plant much resembles P.. 
aurea but there is never any of the irregular crowding of the lower nodes of the 
culm as in that species, and the ligules of the culm sheaths are brownish, trun- 
cate, laciniats, and more prominent than in P. aurea; the ligules of the leaf 
sheaths are also higher than in the latter species. . The conditions under which 
plants will be furnished to experimenters and the cultural requirements and 
uses of culms are the same as for FP. bambusoides castilloni. (Savannah, Ga.) 
101174. PSHUDOSASA DISTICHA.* (Poaceae.) Fern bamboo. From France. Obtained 
from V. Lemoine & Sons, Nancy. aA dwarf bamboo of running habit, growing some-— 
times 3 to 5 feet high, with rather narrow leaves 2 to 4 inches long. The con- 
spicuously 2-ranked leaf arrangement suggests the name fern bamboo. This attrac— 
tive little species is a somewhat less rampant spreader then Pleioblastus pumilus. 
For trial in the upper South and the mildest parts of the northern states. 
(Savannesh, Ga.) 

110838. PSHUDOSASA DISTICHA.* Fern bamboo. From England. Presented by the 
Director, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Same description as for the preceding, 
P, Ts No. 101174. (Savannah, Ga.) 
73962, SASA AURHO-STRIATA. (Poaceae.) From Japan. Obtained from the Yokohama | 
Nursery Company, Yokohama. A dwarf hardy running bamboo, 1 to 2 feet high, na- 
tive to Japan. The lanceolete or narrow-lanceolate leaves, 15 to 5 inches long, 
are usually yellowish striped in spring and early summer but mostly become plain 
green later. This handsome little species makes an exceedingly attractive ground 
cover in protected situations in regions where the minimum winter temperature is 
not much lower than 00 F. The leaves are often killed at temperatures several 
degrees higher but recovery of the plants in the spring is fairly rapid. Be- 
cause of the vigor of the underground parts of the plant it may become weedy if 
the rhizomes are not prevented from spreading by 3 barrier of some sort. Plants 
furnishod in lots of 3 to 10. For trial in the middle and upper South and on the 
Pacific coast. (Savannah, Ga.) 
52670. SASA AURICOMA. Bamboo. From France. Presented by Vilmorin, Andrieux, 
& Co., Paris. aA dwarf hardy bamboo of the running type, 1 to 2 feet high, native 
to China and Japan. t is a strikingly handsome little species, having greon-= 
and-yellow-striped leaves 14 to 6 inches long and up to three-quarters of an 
inch wide. It is very similar to Sasa aureostriata. Plants furnished in lots 
of 3 to 10. For trial in the middle and upper South and on the Pacific coast. 
(Savannah, Ga.) 

75161, SASA AURICOMA. Bamboo. From England. Presented by Sir Arthur W. Hill, 
Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Same description as for the preceding, 
P. I. No. 52670. (Savannah, Ga.) 


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