Inventory 68, Seeds and Plants Imported. 



Plate I. 



The Edible Bamboo of the Eastern Himalayas. (Dendrocalamus 



HAMILTONII NEES AND ARN.. S. P. I. NO. 53909.) 



Like several other bamboos the young shoots of this species are a delicious vegetable. They 

 suggest gigantic asparagus tips, but are more firm and crisp in texture. For its valuable 

 timber, as well as for its edible shoots, the species is worthy of trial in the southern United States, 

 where the Asiatic bamboos promise to become of economic importance. (Photographed by 

 J. F. Rock, Berjan Forest Reserve, Assam, February, 1921; P22721FS.) 



