Note 253 — Chapter V
Reading edition
Plin. xiv. 162. Cuvier (ap. Rawlinson’s Herod. iii. 98) speaks of a bamboo (Bambus arundinacea) which grows to the height of sixty feet. Colonel Yule states that the largest bamboos are in the Malay Islands and Cambodia. He has seen them from eighty to one hundred feet high. “Early Travels to India,” 1867, p. 93.