only remains to add that Ravenea is allied to Hyophorbe, 
which differs in its robust habit, in being moncecious, and 
in the flowers being arranged in interrupted lines along the 
branches of the spadix which is infrafoliaceous. The name 
Ravenea was given by the late M. Bouché, who sent seeds 
to Mr. Wendland, who declined to name them without © | 
further materials. Unfortunately Mr. Wendland has mis- 
laid the seeds, and gives the description of them from 
memory. He informs me that they are the smallest of the 
order in so far as he knows, as also that in the figure of 
the section of the ovary here given, fig. 9, the insertion of 
the ovules is wrong, for their point of attachment should be 
a little above the base of the cell. Mr. Wendland describes 
the genus as dicecious, but (as shown in figs. 3 and 4) male 
and hermaphrodite flowers occur on the same spadix.— 
J.D. H. 
Fig. 1, Reduced figure of the whole palm; 2, portions of leaflets with palew on 
costa; 3, male, and 4, hermaphrodite flower; 5, calyx-tube; 6, bracteole; 7, petal ; 
8, ovary ; 9, vertical section of ditto :—all enlarged. 
