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Bambusa (About two dozen species have)

About two dozen species have been referred to this genus, natives of tropical or sub-tropical Asia, one being broadly dispersed through tropical America. To the species described on pp. 155-6, Vol. I., the following should now be added:

B. Castilloni (Castillon's). l. variegated. Stems square, curiously variegated, one side of each internode being dark green, and the other side yellow, these colours alternating at the next internode. Japan, 1886. Hardy. (R. H. 1886, p. 513.) B. Wieseneri (Wiesener's). Stems brownish-black or dark olive-green. Japan, 1887. Garden variety. A fine, hardy Bamboo, resembling in habit and vigour Arundianria japonica (this being the correct name of the plant described on p. 118, Vol. I., as A. Metake).