555 / 53 . 
Jrd October, 
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My dear. Burkill, 
I am getting Pestana to make a careful survey 
of all bamboos in the garden, and a map showing their positions. 
He is collecting culm sheaths, taking care to get perfect 
ones, amd we find that the species are usually easily 
distinguished by the sheaths* Also we have been able to 
name a good many species, with more or less accuracy, by 
consulting Gamble and Koorders* Some we cannot name at all, 
but I think we have got them straighten' than had been 
previously possible. 
There is a very fine bamboo, not for from Dalvey 
Gate, of which I should like to know the history. I think 
it is a Schizostachyunu Sappi says he thinks you planted 
it. It is towards the left of the enclosed photograph. 
The culm sheaths have ^|i|st curiously corwex blade, and 
broadly wrinkled auricles; the young culms are a bright 
glaucous colour. I saw something very like it the other 
Kedah, but the Kedah plant had woolly auricles* - ■ 
The other two bamboos in the photograph are 
Glgantochloa; I am not sure whether they are both the same 
species* After seeing a lot of bamboos in Kedah recently, 
and inspection of herbarium specimens, I am pretty sure that 
the further of the clumps in the photo is G.Scortechinii* 
The other one has no young culms at present* We have also 
G.Kurzii, G*apu6 and G.atter; and a bamboo commonly eul^vatedin 
for the young shoots is also a Glgantochloa, but I am not sure 
