The “ Walking-stick Palm” was, as I am informed by 
the late Curator, originally introduced into the Royal 
Gardens in 1824 or 1825, by its discoverer, the late Allan 
Cunningham, Superintendent of the Botanic Gardens of 
Sydney; and it has since that period been sent by Mr. 
Walter Hill, who was long the Superintendent of the Bris- 
bane Botanical Gardens. It flourishes in the Palm-house 
and Begonia-house, requiring no great heat, and flowering 
copiously throughout the year. 
Dsscr. Caudex four to twelve feet high, very slender, 
green, ringed, giving off aerial roots from near the very base; 
clothed below the leaves with the persistent old leaf-sheathes. 
Leaves very numerous, terminal, spreading and recurved, 
two to four feet long by one to one and a half feet broad, 
equally pinnatisect; segments four to six pairs, alternate, 
ligulate, attached by a broad oblique base, plaited and 
many-nerved, tip truncate and toothed or incised, dark 
green, quite glabrous ; petiole slender, shorter than the 
blade, sheath oblong-lanceolate, keeled, green, rigid, two- 
auricled at the top. Spadices numerous from amongst the 
leaves and as long as these, very slender, spreading and 
drooping ; peduncle long, slender, as long as the flowering 
portion. Spathe as long as the spadix and enclosing it 
when full grown, then bursting vertically throughout its 
whole length, and deciduous, membranous. Flowers in 
threes (of two males and one female) loosely inserted all 
round the terete spadix, green. Male flower sessile, ovoid, 
acute, terete. Sepals rounded, scarious, closely imbricating 
round the base of the corolla. Petals three, thickly coria- 
ceous, ovate-oblong, acute, valvate. Stamens six to ten. 
Female flower minute, globose. Sepals broader than long, 
closely imbricating. Petals larger than the sepals, rounded, 
obtuse. Ovary obovoid, with one cell and basal ovule, and 
three sessile stigmas.—J. D. H. 
A, whole plant, reduced ; B, spadi ; ’ : 
. > 3 B, spadix, of the natural size. Fig. 1, portion of 
tr; te = me wers ; 2,f fl. ; 3, sepal; 4, petal; 5 and 6, stamen of the same; 7, 
sles ae outer sepal; 9, petal; 10, ovary; 11, vertical section of ditto:—al/ 
