Taps: 7227. 
STEVENSONIA GRaNDIFOLIA. 
Native of the Seychelle Islands. 
Nat. Ord. Patmea.—Tribe ARECE2. 
Genus Stevensonta, Duncan; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. ili. p. 908). 
~ STEVENsONTA grandifolia ; Duncan, Cat. Hort. Maurit. 87, nomen; Balf. f. in 
Baker Fl. Maurit. 388; J. Smith, Records of the Royal Botanical Gardens, 
wean 114; Official Guide to the North Gallery, Kew, Ed. 5, Nos. 467, 470, 
478, 495. 
Pheenicophorium sechellarum, H. Wendl. in Illustr. Hortic. vol. xii. p. 433 
(young plant) and Misc. 5; Kerchove, Les Palmiers, p. 327. 
Areca sechellarum, Hort. 
Astrocaryum Borsignianum and aureo-pictum, Hort. 
The Seychelle Islands are, for their area, quite unique in 
respect of the number of endemic genera and species of 
Palms which they contain, all their species being in this 
category, as are all the genera but one, Acanthophenia, 
which is otherwise confined to the Mauritian group of 
islands. Moreover, these endemic genera, of which there 
are five, are all of them monotypic; they are the famous 
“Double Cocoa nut,” Lodoicea sechellarum, Labill. (see 
Tab. 2734-8 of this work), the nearest ally of which is the 
Borassus flagellifer, Linn., a native of tropical Africa, and 
abundant (though doubtless introduced) in India. The 
remainder all belong to the large tribe of Arecex; namely, — 
Nephrosperma van Houtteana, Balf. f.; Roscheria melano- 
chetes, Wendl., the ** Latanier Hanbaum,” of the islanders ; 
Verschaffeltia splendida, Wendl., the ‘‘ Latte”; and the 
subject of this plate, the ‘“‘Latanier feuillé.” The 
endemic Acanthopheniz is the Deckenia alba, Wendl., 
which Mr. Horne, the late Government Botanist in the 
Mauritius, informs me is referable to the first-named 
genus, and will therefore bear the name of Acantho- 
Fesrvary 1st, 1893. 
