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Mexican Bamboo. (Bantbusa vulgaris Wendl.) See p. 427. 



Plate LXVII. 

 Large groups of bamboo are cultivated for ornament in many 

 gardens and by roadsides, especially in tbe vicinity of Hamilton. 

 The taller plants seen may be from 20 to 30 feet higb. They are 

 relatively slender and very graceful. 



The following are the more common species of foreign cultivated 

 palms : — 



Royal Palm ; Mountain Palm ; Barbadoes Cabbage Palm. ( Oreo- 

 doxa oleracea Mart.) 



Figures 5, 42. Plate LXVI, Figure 2. 



This is the tallest and most beautiful of the palms that have been 

 cultivated here. Solitary specimens of good size occur in < many 

 grounds. Five tall trees that stand by the roadside, a short distance 

 west of Hamilton, and near Crow Lane, are the best known exam- 

 ples. The trunk is remarkably smooth, hard, and symmetrical, look- 

 ing almost as if turned in a lathe. The pinnate leaves are often 20 

 feet or more long. 



This palm is native in the West Indies, where it sometimes grows 

 to the height -of 100 to 120 feet. 



The true "Royal Palm" of the West Indies (O. regia Kth.) is 

 similar, but the trunk is largest or swollen about midheight, and it 

 does not grow so tall. 



Gru-gru Palm; Grigri Palm. [Astrocaryum aureum Gr. & Wendl.) 



Cultivated in a few places. Two of the largest are at Mt. Lang- 

 ton. The trunk, leaves, and spadix bear black prickles, those of the. 

 leaves about a quarter of an inch long. Native of the West Indies. 



The name Gru-gru Palm is also applied in the West Indies to 

 Jf</rlinezia corallina Mart., of Martinique, which beai's bright red 

 berries, about half an inch in diameter. 



It is said that the name is given to these trees because the pith is 

 infested by the very large, fat larva (gru-gru) of a boring beetle 

 {Calandra palmarum), which is extracted and used as food by the 

 natives, in the West Indies, who consider it a great delicacy. 



Cocoa-nut Palm. ( Cocos nucifera L.) 



Figure 3. 



Cultivated in many places, but seldom of large size. The fruit does 

 not fully mature. In nearly all specimens the trunk is strongly 



