BAMBOOS : THEIR CULTURE AND USES 5 
Europe as it is in warmer regions. Hoiizeau de Lehaie, of Mons, 
Belgium, whom there will be occasion to quote irequentl3% sa3^s (8), 
'' For 28 years we have studied bamboos, have grown and culti- 
vated more than a hundred species, and in all that time have seen 
only eight in flower." 
Our own records go back for more than 20 years, and so far as the 
writer is aware none of the bamboos which are likely to play an 
important part in an economic way in this country has flowered. 
It will not be practicable in a publication such as this to go into 
details regarding the systematic botany of the bamboos. Suffice 
it to say that this group of plants belongs to the order of Graminese, 
subfamily Poacoideee, tribe Bambusese. Adopting the systematic 
arrangement of Camus (^), five subtriUes are recognized. These 
are (1) Arundinariee, (2) Arthrostylidiae, (3) Chusquese, (4) Bam- 
buseae verse, (5) Bacciferese. 
In Table 1 there is taken from Camus (2) a list of the genera, the 
number of species in each genus, and the countries where they occur. 
A list of the department's introductions, which began in a systematic 
way in 1899, has been added. 
Table 1. — Genera of lamboos and number of species of each genus, together 
uith their geographic distribution, and a list of genera and species imported 
ty the Office of Foreign Seed and Plant Introduction 
Name of genus 
Sasa 
O reiostachys _ _ 
Arundinaria 
Thamnocalamus 
Fargesia 
Phyllostachy s 
Microcalamus 
Glaziophyton 
Arthrostylidium 
Aulonemia 
Merostachys 
Chusquea 
Planotia 
Nastus 
Greslania 
Guadua 
Guadella 
Bambusa [Bambos] 
Oreobambus 
Th jTSostachys 
Gigantochloa 
Oxytenanthera 
Puelia 
Atractocarpa 
Dendrocalamus 
Melocalamus 
Pseudostach3-uiri- - . 
Teinostachyum 
Cephalostachyuni- - 
Diiiochloa 
SchizostachjTim 
Melocanna.-- 
Ochlandra 
Total 
Number, 
of 
Geographic distribution 
490 
Central and eastern Asia 
Eastern Asia, Malasia 
Eastern Asia, Malasia, Africa, America (a few species) . 
Asia, India, China (?), Japan, Africa 
China- 
China, Cochin China, India, Japan. 
Tropical and western Africa 
Brazil 
Central America and South America- 
Central America 
South America -- 
Central America and South America. 
— -do — 
Madagascar, Sumatra, Brazil 
New Caledonia 
Central America and South America 
Central and western Africa 
Central and eastern Asia, Malasia, Australia (one identi- 
fied species; probably two others not well known) . 
Africa 
Number 
of intro- 
ductions 
India 
Eastern Asia, India, Malasia 
Africa, Asia, Llalasia, New Guinea- 
Central and western Africa— 
Congo - 
Asia, Africa 
India 
— do -- 
India, Ceylon 
Madagascar, India, Malasia 
Eastern Asia and Malasia.- 
Central and eastern Asia, Tahiti, Malasia, Madagascar. 
India 
Central and eastern Asia, Malasia 
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The accompanying list of genera and species, together with the 
very full descriptions and bibliographical data accompanying the 
same (Table 1), as arranged by Camus, will prove useful in future 
