Tas. 6274. 
LIVISTONA ausrraus. 
Native of Eastern Temperate Australia. 
Nat. Ord. Patmea.—Tribe Corypuinua. 
Genus Livistona, Br. (Endl. Gen. Plant. p. 252). 
Livistona australis; caudice 50-80-pedali, petiolis gracilibus arcuatis marginibus 
spinosis, foliis saturate viridibus orbiculatis ad medium fissis, spatha stricta 
}-12-pollicari lanceolato-cymbiformi acuta rufo-fulva villosa, spadice elongato 
cernuo ramosissimo glaberrimo ramulis curvis, fl. masc. minutis ramulis 
tenuibus spicatis vix + poll. diam., sepalis brevibus latioribus quam 
longis, petalis crasse carnosis triangulari-ovatis subacutis valvatis, fila- 
mentis brevibus dilatatis, antheris brevibus parvis, fructu globoso, pericarpio 
indurato minute granuloso intus crustaceo, semine globoso, albumine ~ 
eequabili osseo intus sacculo a chalaza dilatata ad centrum extenso instructo, 
embryone supra-basilari. 
L. australis, Mart. Hi ist.Palm., 241, cum tab. ; Wendland and Drude, Palm. Austral. 
in Linnea, vol. xxxix. p. 232, t. ili, £5; F. Muell. Fragr. Phyt. Aust. vol. v. 
p. 49. 
Coryrua australis, Br. Prodr. p. 128. 
This graceful palm was for many years one of the greatest 
ornaments of the Palm House at Kew, rearing its massive 
head of bright green foliage supported on a rich brown 
caudex, high above all the other palms except Cocos plumosa 
and Caryota wrens. During the present year having reached 
the roof on the west side of the centre, it was felled and re- 
Placed by a Phoenix dactylifera which will take years to 
assume the same proportions, and never rival it in beauty. 
Livistona australis is the most southern palm of the Austra- 
lian continent, reaching the snowy range in lat. 37° 30’ 8. 
when its trunk attains 80 ft. in height, and extending thence 
along the west coast to the Illawarra River, in lat. 34° 45’ 8. 
It flowered annually at Kew, in the spring months, for many 
years. The fruits I have received from Mr. Hill, of the 
Brisbane Botanical Gardens; they resemble specimens brought 
by Brown, preserved in the British Museum, except in 
____ having a thicker and harder pericarp. 
