1933.] PALMS. B3 



Bhapis fiahelUformis. Partridge Cane Palm. Ground Rattan Palm. 

 China and Japan. 



Height 6 to 8 feet with slender flexible stems produced in great 

 abundance and clothed with fibrous sheaths, which, on falling away, 

 expose a green stem with distinct circular markings about i to ^ an 

 inch apart. Leaves palmate. The plant is very useful for hedges, fine 

 examples of which can be seen in the Gardens. Partridge cane 

 walking sticks are made from the stems. 



Sabal glaucescens. Native. 



Tall growing palms with deeply cut, fan-shaped leaves, glaucous 

 beneath. 



Sabal sp. ('? Sabal acaulis, Hort..) Stemless Palm. 



Leaves palmate glabrous. Leaflets are closely plaited and united for 

 about half their length with very stiff ridges. 



Sabal wmbraculifcra. Palmetto Royal. Native. 



An erect palm with a stout columnar trunk 1 foot or more in diameter, 

 and 60 to 80 feet in height. The large orbicular leaves form a dense 

 head at the summit of the trunk, the lower ones usually lying flat 

 against it. Leaflets long and narrowed to a very fine point. Fruits 

 small, black, borne in great abundance on long arching spikes which often 

 develop some distance above the crown of leaves. 



Stevenson ia grandifoUa. Seychelles. 



A. handsome palm, reaching to a height of 50 feet. Leaves entire 

 (or divided in older specimens) mottled with reddish brown, and with a 

 bifid apex. Strong spines thickly clothe the leaf-stalks. The fruit are 

 about half an inch in length, scarlet when ripe. 



Thrinax argentea. Thatch Palm. Broom Palm. Native. 



A slender stemmed, erect, unarmed palm of medium height. Leaves 

 palmate, glaucous beneath, the segments uniting at the base where an 

 orange coloured papilla is formed on the upper surface. Petioles 

 enveloped at the base by a brown netted fibre. Flower spikes arching 

 2 to 3 feet in length, bearing small white fruit. In Panama brooms are 

 made from the leaves, hence the name of Broom Palm. Young 

 specimens of this palm are good pot plants. 



Thrinax floridana. Florida. 



An elegant slender palm, 12 to 1.5 feet high, with stiff, light green, 

 palmate leaves. Segments broader than those of T. argentea, bifid at 

 the apex and united at the base, where a pale green papilla is formed. 

 Petioles surrounded at the base by fibrous sheaths. The fruits which are 

 about the size of peas, are borne on pendant branches. As a pot plant 

 it is not so graceful as T. argentea the leaflets being more rigid. 



