Tan. 6704. 
LICUALA Grannis. 
Native of New Britain. 
Nat. Ord. PatMex.—Tribe CoryPHES. 
Genus Licvata, Thunb.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. iii. p. 928.) 
Licvata grandis; glaberrima, caudice erectosuperne vaginis vetustis foliorum obtecto, 
foliis perplurimis erecto-patulis, petiolo 3-pedali gracili glaberrimo, marginibus 
infra medium spinosis, spinis brevibus validis rectis v. curvis, lamina orbiculari 
v. semi-orbiculari concavo basi cuneato v. truncato creberrime plicato, marginibus 
breviter fissis, lobis obtuse 2-fidis, ligula brevi late ovata acuta crassa, spadicibus 
axillaribus foliis paullo brevioribus gracilibus glaberrimis, ramulis floriferis 
distantibus paniculatim ramosis sessilibus, spathis 2-pollicaribus lanceolatis— 
acuminatis brunneis, floribus 4 poll. longis viridibus cum _pedicello brevissimo 
articulatis, calyce tubuloso-campanulato ore truncato sublobato, petalis calyce 
brevioribus late ovatis acutis marginibus crassis, staminibus sinubus cyathi 
magni 6-lobi crasse coriacei insertis, filamentis subulatis lobis triangularibus 
cyathi zquilongis, antheris oblongis, ovario obovoideo e carpellis 3 leviter 
coherentibus, stylo brevi filiformi integro. 
L. grandis, H. Wendl. MSS.—André Illustr. Horticol. t. 412. 
Paritcnarpia grandis, Hort. Bull. - 
The subject of the present Plate is one of the most 
striking Palms that have ever been introduced into this 
country; it is graceful in habit, with a bold crown of 
brilliantly green leaves, the rounded cup-shaped form of 
which, delicately folded in innumerable plaits, and doubly 
cut round the edges, are characters quite unlike those of 
any other Palm known in cultivation. The precise date of 
its introduction is not known; it was exhibited at the 
International Horticultural Show at Brussels in 1876 by 
Mr. Bull, from whose possession it passed into that of Mr. 
Wills, and from him to the Royal Gardens, Kew, where it 
— one of the chief ornaments of the Tropical House 
oe @ 
The genus Licuala, consisting of about thirty known 
species, is very badly represented in the Palm Houses of 
Kurope; most are small Palms of very elegant habit, 
natives of the hotter regions of Eastern Asia, and from 
AuGUsT Ist, 1883, 
