figured at t. 3374 of this work, is probably another species. 
It differs from the other two in having a perfectly glabrous 
_ spadix. I should add that I have submitted the figure of 
| P. Carderi to my friend, Dr. Wendland, of Herrenhausen, 
whose knowledge of Palms is unrivalled, and he has quite 
independently arrived at the same conclusion as myself in 
respect of the genus to which it should be referred. 
The Royal Gardens are indebted to Mr. Bull for the 
plant of P. Carderi, which is now planted out in the Palm 
House, where it flowered in May, 1889. 
Dascr. Caudex in the Kew plant nearly three feet’ high 
(but will probably attain a much. greater height), about as 
thick as the wrist, clothed with the reticulated fibrous 
short sheaths of the old leaves ; -base stoloniferous. Leaves 
eight to ten feet long, spreading and arching gracefully, 
perfectly glabrous; segments very many, all free to the top | 
of the leaf, eighteen to twenty-four inches long by one to 
one and a half inches broad, linear, gradually - narrowed 
into a straight filiform apex two to three inches long, 
strongly plicately seven-nerved, dark green above, paler 
beneath; petiole three to five feet long, dark green and 
shining, plano-convex towards the base, subtrigonous above 
it; rachis cylindric with a median ridge above. Spathes 
two, lower short, two-fid ;. upper very long, three to four 
feet, by about one and a half in diameter, straight, thickly © 
coriaceous, rigid, smooth, glabrous. Spadix shortly ex- 
serted, a foot and a half. long, suberect, furfuraceously 
tomentose with a rich pale orange-brown tomentum ; rachis 
strict, rigid, terete ; branches six to ten inches long, erecto- 
patent, strict, rigid, articulate at the base. Flowers sessile 
~ in threes (a fem. between two males), scattered all round 
the branches, or solitary and fem. only towards the base of 
the branches, quite glabrous, palepink. Matern. Sepals 
minute. Petals one-eighth of an inch long, free, ellipsoid, . 
concave, valvate. Stamens six, filaments longer than the 
petals’; anthers linear-oblong, pistillode acutely three-cleft. 
Fen. rt. Sepals and petals semicircular, closely imbricate 
round the ovary, tips not contracted or valvate. - Ovary 
ovoid, nearly straight, top minutely obtusely three-toothed, 
one-celled ; ovule erect from near the base of the cell.— 
a. Ded, 
i Fig. 1, Clusters of 3 flowers on portion of rachis; 2, male fi.; 3, pistillode ; 
“4, fem. f.; 5, ovary :—all greatly enlarged, : 
