As regards the history of this fine Palm, which has been 
for many years growing in the Palm House of Kew, I can 
throw no further light than that it has always borne the 
erroneous name of Mawimiliana regia, and is hence, no 
doubt, one of three plants so called in J. Smith’s “ Records 
of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew,” for which he gives 
as their origin, ‘“‘ex Hort. Belg. Van Houtte, 1847; 
Demerara, Schomburg and Boughton, 1847; Para, Yates, 
1847, The only other remark on this subject is at p. 111 
of the same work, where (writing in (1880) the author says, 
under M. regia, “similar in habit and mode of growth 
to Atialea amygdalina, plants with leaves ten feet in 
length.” 
Descr.—W hole plant twenty-five ft. high from the ground 
to the level of the coma; trunk from the ground about 
eight ft. to the lower leaves, three ft. in girth, dark 
brown, or nearly black, clothed with the bases of old 
petioles. Leaves very many, spreading and decurved, 
twenty-five feet long, very shortly petioled; leaflets s 
crowded, in three ranks, Spreading and decurved, with 
pendulous tips, solitary towards the base of the rachis, in 
threes to fives towards the middle, and solitary near the 
top, about three feet long, by one to one and a half in. 
broad, finely acuminate, base thickened, bright green, 
convex and keeled above, pale beneath ; rachis stout, five- 
angled, about an inch broad in the middle part, dorsally 
rounded and clothed with a fine closely appressed grey- 
purple scurf, sides flat green, upper surface concave 
bright green, with acute edges and a median low ridge. 
Spathes two, unisexual, (? always), in the axils of the 
leaves, an upper fem. and lower male, shortly stoutly 
peduncled, two and a half feet long, cymbiform, 
shortly Stoutly beaked, woody, yellow-brown. Male 
spadi eighteen inches long, erect, densely clothed with 
strict, deflexed fascicled branches, the rachis and racheole 
of which are bright yellow, the flowers a bright vinous 
purple; male fl. crowded on the branches of the spadix 
sessile, nearly half an inch long. Sepals minute, ovate. 
Petals many times longer, cylindric, rugulose, tip rounded. 
Stamens three, anthers about half the length of the petals, | 
and twice as long as their filaments. Fem. fl. much 
larger than the male, very shortly stoutly pedicelled, 
