ore lots of open holes looking like Raithroder holes, usually near two diggings, but I found no Raithroder clippings. april 28. Baridobo. Cloudy in A.M., then scattered sun, then snow flurries. To Gao. Gao full. Isolated and measured the height of new culms on B1 and B2. Lots of them died before growing more than 3 ft., other culms had the top dead. In the general neighborhood of B1 ad B2 there was not a great production. I saw shoots, and nowhere did we see blooming clumps april 29. Scattered clouds all day; cold, (50° oelength). Drove out to Pampa Huanularo at the foot of Cerro Otto, about 200 yards up the path into the large camp along the stream, are 3 large, dead, adjacent clumps of tall bamboo. The center clump bloomed this year, the other two last year (earlier). No seedlings visible. The center clump produced no seeds. Then drove up to Cerro Cataldo again. Found no other clumps with seed. Then met a lady, Martha Basta and daughter (Diana). The other park guard of Cataldo is Horacio Pelzey, who was at Puerto Bleat last year. Also quoted the Manso notes as saying big fires swept through in 1905 and 1915, and the bamboo bloomed in 1939. Could this be the kind of bamboo that grows in longer forest.