ON THE ECONOMIC USES OF BAMBOOS. 283 
I am afraid that in thus briefly discussing this branch of the 
subject which I have brought before you, I have had very little 
information to convey. All I can say is that it has not been 
for the want of trying that I have failed. I must console myself 
with the saying that “ in the kingdom of the blind the one-eyed 
man is king.” If the fare be meagre, it is the best that I can 
offer. At any rate, admiring and loving the Bamboo as I do, 
I hope that the exhibits which you have seen here to-day may 
send some of you home to your gardens having caught the 
infection of enthusiasm for their beauty, and perhaps giving 
practical expression to the Chinese poet’s saying, “ How can I 
exist for a single day without this gentleman ? ” 
List of the Hakdy Bamboos shown by A. B. Freeman 
Mitford, Esq., C.B., to illustrate the above paper, and for which 
a Gold Medal was awarded by the Council:— 
1. Arundinaria anceps (Mitford). Origin uncertain. 
2. Arundinaria aristata (Gamble). North-Eastern Himalaya. 
3. Arundinaria auricoma (Mitford). Japan. 
syn. A. Fortunei var. aurea (Hort.). 
Bambusa Fortunei var. aurea (Hort.). 
B. Maximowiczii (Hort., in part). 
4. Arundinaria chrysantha (Mitford). Japan. 
syn. Bambusa chrysantha (Hort.). 
5. Arundinaria Falconeri (Mitford). Himalaya. 
syn. Thamnocalamus Falconeri (Hook. F.). 
G. Arundinaria falcata (Nees). Himalaya. 
syn. Bambusa falcata (Hort.). 
B. gracilis (Hort., in part). 
7. Arundinaria Fortunei (A. and C. Riviere). Japan. 
syn. B. Fortunei (Van Houtte). 
B. Fortunei variegata (Hort., in part). 
8. Arundinaria Hindsii (Munro). Japan. 
syn. Bambusa erecta (Hort.). 
B. gracilis (Hort.). 
9. Arundinaria Hindsii var. graminea. Bean. 
syn. Bambusa graminea (Hort.). 
10. Arundinaria humilis (Mitford). Japan. 
syn. Arundinaria Fortunei viridis (Hort.). 
Bambusa gracilis (Hort., in part). 
