segments of both hanging down except a very few at the 

 base of the leaf oi Forsteriana. Referring to the published 



figures of the flower and fruit of B a t they are 



identical with those of that here figured. Unfortunately 

 there are no native or authentic foliage specimens of the 

 two supposed species in the Kew Herbarium, though there 

 are male flowers and fruits of both, received from Mueller, 

 and which, as Beutham points out, are identical. There 

 is, however a palm, said to be from Lord Howe's Island, 

 and which is cultivated at Kew, and named (amongst other 

 names) H. Forsteriana; it differs from Belmoreana in the 

 much more slender and quite glabrous rachis of the leaf. 



11. Belmoreana was sent from the Sydney Botanical 

 Gardens to Kew about thirty years ago, and for long bore 

 the name of the Umbrella Palm (Hedysc&pe Ganterburyana) ; 

 it flowered for the first time in February of this year, the 

 trunk being then twenty-four feet high. ' 



Desce. Trunk slender, annulate, green, eighteen inches 

 in girth at two feet from the ground. Leaves spreading 

 and recurved, twelve feet long, petiole about one-sixth 

 the length of the blade ; segments sessile, three to four 

 feet long by two inches broad, finely acuminate, spread- 

 ing and drooping, dark green, plicately five-nerved and 

 many-ribbed, margins densely woolly ; nerves sparsely 

 paleaceous ; base sessile ; rachis very stout, densely woolly, 

 obtusely five-gonous, upper surface nearly flat between the 

 bases oi the segments. Spadix from the base of the old 

 eaves, shortly peduncled, erect, about eighteen inches 

 long, stout, terete, simple, rachis three-quarters of an inch 

 m diameter. Flowers with their bases sunk in pits of the 

 rachis, males one-third of an inch long, ellipsoid, obtuse ; 

 nepals broad, obtuse, ciliate, half as long as the oblong 

 smooth valvate apiculate petals. Stamens very many, 

 crowded on a central column, erect ; filaments very short ; 

 anthers oblong, apiculate. Fern, flowers immature ; ovary 

 ovoid, stigmas three triangular. Fruit one and a quarter 

 to one and a half inches long, ellipsoid, smooth, apiculate. 

 Seed conform to the cavity, vessels of testa ascending and 

 arched.— J. D.H. 



P fvfrv 1 '^ a c 1 !5° W Q r !\ CoIlininaridstamen5 ; Sand 4, stamens; 5, fern, flower; 



iKJCwJ:]™ 1 CUt lo "^tndinally, showing the embryo :- all except 



