1824, (among additions and corrections) is Dr. Wallich’s Uro- 
phyllum of the same volume. 
Wallichia of Reinwardt, in Blume’s Hort. Buctenzoorg., pub- 
in 1823, p. 11 et p. 57, is Avanthes of Blume, Bijdr. 
Wallichia, Schumacher, MSS., is noticed by Hornemann in 
the ‘Danish Literary Gazette,’ no. 16, for 1846, p. 247. (It is 
one of Thonning’s Guinea plants.) 
The late Mr. W. Griffith has very properly adopted Rox- 
burgh’s Wallichia in his account of the genus inserted in the 
‘Calcutta Journal of Natural History,’ vol. v. p. 482, 1845. 
And in the work on Palms by Von Martius, vol. iii. p. 315, in 
the editio posterior added to it in 1849, that author restores the 
name Wallichia (for Harina, which he had given in a previous 
volume of that magnificent work) ; subdividing Wallichia into 
two sections, namely, Harina and Ovania. W. J. H. 
Curr. It is seldom that we have an opportunity of offering 
remarks on the cultivation of Palms: this may in part be attri- 
buted to the want of show in their flowers, and the general lofti- 
ness of growth of the majority of the family. But the species 
figured may be viewed as an exception, for it is not only a dwarf 
or stemless Palm, but its large bunch of male flowers is con- 
spicuous on account of its singular-coloured spatha. Being a 
native of India, it requires the heat of a tropical stove, and 
grows freely in any kind of light garden-soil not retentive of 
water. The plant from which the drawing was made was intro- 
duced into the Royal Gardens some years ago, bemg then a 
small plant. As it increased in size and filled the pot with 
roots, it was duly shifted into larger pots, and ultimately into 
a plant-box two feet square, where it flowered, in the Palm- 
house. Although it produced both sexes of flowers, it did not, 
however, perfect its seeds. It may be increased by separating 
the suckers, but this must be done gradually, so as to allow the 
suckers time to have sufficient roots before they are quite sepa- 
rated from the plant. /. 8. 
Tab. 4584. Flowering plant :—much reduced. Fig. 1. Spathas of male flower 
before expansion :—zatural size. 2. Male flower and bud :—magnified. 3. 
Spike of female flowers forming fruit :—natural size. 4. Immature fruit :—mag- 
nified. 5, Transverse section of ditto :—magnified. 
