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THE ELOEIST AND POMOLOGIST. 
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to be sheltered against the wind, for if much 
exposed, the leaves srrffer in the young state, 
by rubbing against each other, that after un¬ 
folding they appear torn and disfigured. 
PanicUM ceus Aede^, IF., differs from the 
former by its taller habit (-10-G0 in.), and more 
elegant growth ; it requires the same treatment. 
Eulalia japonica, I'rin., from Japan, I 
found in 1857, in the Halle Botanic Garden, 
where it was imported, but it was there culti¬ 
vated in pots, and from want of nourishment 
presented a miserable, starved appearance. It 
stands very well in the open air, if covered. The 
pot-plants pass the winter best in a cold green¬ 
house, where they sometimes form panicles of 
flowers on the 6 ft.-high stalks, these resembling 
those of riiragmitis communis. In the open air 
it does not blossom, because the inflorescence is 
only developed on culms which are two years 
old. As a solitary plant on lawns or grass- 
plots it is very handsome, forming a bush 
40-G0 in. high, well set on all sides with leaves 
drooping in light curves. Eulalia japonica j'ol. 
alho-variegatis of gardens may perhaps belong 
to another species, for its growth is much more 
graceful, and the leaves considerably narrower. 
Tlie variety with cross-banded leaves is as yet 
scarce in German gardens, but much to be 
recommended. 
Gymnotheix latifolia, /S'c/ie/^., from Monte 
Video, is, by its bright green, broad, elegant, 
overhanging leaves, and the dark brown stalks 
thickened at their internodes, a highly interest¬ 
ing grass, which, especially as a single plant, 
is very effective. By profuse manuring, it gets 
over G ft. high. At the base of the plant the 
internodes thicken, as in Panicum bulbosiim, so 
strongly that they appear like walnut-sized 
bulbs, which put forth lateral stalks afresh. 
In very mild winters it has held out here under 
a covering of leaves in the open air. However, 
it is better kept during the winter at a tem¬ 
perature of 10° E., in a light place. 
Eeianthus Eayenn.®, Beauv.., indigenous to 
the Mediterranean and Caspian regions, holds 
out well with us, under a covering of leaves, in 
the open air. It is a very recommendable grass, 
and not so easily killed in winter as Ggnerium 
argenteum., and forms a bush 5 ft. high, whose 
leaves droop on all sides in light curves. The 
flower-stalks attain a height of 7 ft., but the 
panicles can lay no claim to beauty, yet it is 
very effective, as an individual plant. 
SoEGHUM HALEPENSE, Pevs., a grass which, 
under this name, was imported hither from 
Cairo, has not yet bloomed. The creeping 
rhizomes hold out here very well in the open 
air under a protection of leaves, and develops 
in the course of the summer stems 7 ft. to S-J-ft. 
high. 
PlIYLLOSTACHYS BAMBUSOIDES, Sieb. Ct ZuCC., 
from Japan, is a very decorative plant, which 
becomes especially beautiful when it is planted 
near water, where it puts forth underground 
stolons 6-1G ft. long, and spreads extra¬ 
ordinarily. Like all the Buinbusew, the o-G ft. 
high stalks are shrubby and branching, and 
continually clothed with broad evergreen leaves. 
The plant endures our winters remarkably well 
out-of-doors, if one la}^s down the stalks and 
covers them with fir branches and leaves. The 
highly-recommended species of Bambusa from 
China and Japan, which in Paris, many Italian 
gardens, and in South Germany, are so often, 
and with full claim, used as decorative plants, 
do not hold out with us, at least it is difficult 
to maintain during the winter the shrubby 
stalks under the covering; one does better, 
therefore, to place them in pots in the autumn, 
and to let them pass the winter in a house 
which is merely frost-proof. 
NEW MUSAS. 
GTpN the Catalogue of Xew Plants, &o., recently 
^ issued by M. Salviati, of Florence, besides 
the wonderful Amorphop>liallus, or Cono- 
phallus Titamim, described at p. 188 of our 
volume for 1878, the following Sumatran 
Musas are announced as being ready for dis¬ 
tribution, and of which they give the particulars 
subjoined. 
Musa sumateana, Beccari, sp.ii. —This 
elegant and quite new Banana-tree grows wild 
in the virgin forests of Sumatra, along with 
the Amorphophallus Titanum. Its elongated 
foliage is of a sea-green colour, and even in the 
young specimens it is elegantly striped with 
maroon-red. It produces bunches of cylindrical 
curved fruits, 3 in. to 4 in. long, of the size of 
one’s little finger. Its flowers are unknown ; 
but the species is well distinguished among all 
those which produce falling fruits, by its 
flattened seeds, with sharp and irregularly- 
toothed edges. It is a very ornamental plant, 
on account of its beautiful foliage, and will 
succeed on the open ground in summer. 
Musa teoglodytaeum, Goertner. —The name 
given to this plant is most appropriate, for 
it is the Banana tree of the first inhabitants 
of the forests, i.e., the apes. The fruits of 
these plants, which culture has rendered exqui¬ 
site and nourishing, are filled, in the wild 
state, with an innumerable quantity of seeds, 
which, although enveloped in a small quantity 
of sweet and agreeable pulp, render them un¬ 
serviceable for human nourishment. The pre¬ 
sent species is of the greatest interest; for 
while those cultivated under the names of 
Musa sapientum, paradisiaca, rosacea, &c., 
are forms produced by culture, and do not 
