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Monsieur Binot also tells me that there is one form which is an 

 " annual," seeding and dying regularly. I was unable to ascertain for 

 certain whether this occurred every year, or whether it occurred (as with 

 some South Asiatic species) at times, in a variable way, but contem- 

 poraneously. 



I think there may be more than six species of Bamboo about Petro- 

 polis, but I could only discern rive which were undoubtedly so, and 

 perhaps four others doubtfully so. 



