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not easily determined. If flowers are present, it will not be 
difficult to distinguish them by the following key :— 
Boutia Beccari. 
A. Spathe (sheath of inflorescence) fuscous woolly outside . C. eriospatha. 
B. Spathe smooth. 
a. Petiole nearly as long as the leaf, leaves much re- 
curved at the top . : - : . : . C. Jatay. 
b. Petiole decidedly shorter than the leaf. 
a Leaflets or pinne regularly set . : é . C. capitata 
var. leiospatha. 
B Leaflets or pinne often crowded by 3-4 together C. capitata. 
C. ertospatha.—Petiole about 80 cm. long, with deltoid spines, 
the lowest comparatively small. The leaf is 2:30 m. long, pinne 
equidistant, 50-60 cm. long in the middle of the leaf, upper ones 
gradually getting smaller, rachis very slender towards the top. 
Spathe about 1:20 m. long, thickly covered with brown wool 
outside. 
C. capitata.—Petiole 0°85-1:00 m. long with uncinate slender 
spines, the lower ones rather long and pectinate. Leaf 1:65- 
1:80 m. long, pinne often crowded by 3-4, the middle ones 65-70 
cm. long. Spathe 1:40 m. long, smooth on both sides. 
C. capitata var. levospatha is very similar to the last. Petioles 
1:20 m. long, with stouter but shorter deltoid uncinate spines ; 
leaf 1:50 m. long, with the pinne regularly set, about 65 cm. long, 
upper ones only little shorter. Spathe somewhat smaller, smooth. 
C. Jatay (not Yatay).—Petiole 1:55 m. long and stout, with 
stout spines and very long fibrous ones at the base. Leaves 
1:65 m., much recurved at the top, pinne irregularly grouped, 
often 3-4 together, 70-75 cm. long, the uppermost a little shorter 
but much narrower, nearly filiform.—This Palm has not yet 
flowered with us. 
CorFFEA. 
The coffee tree only exists with difficulty. 
COLLETIA SPINOSA. 
Was grown from seeds received from M. Thuret, in February, 
1869. 
ConVOLVULUS. 
C. floridus, an interesting shrub of 2 m. and more, was raised 
from seeds sent by Mr. Daniel Hanbury, in January, 1869, and 
some plants were bought at Hyéres. This, and C. scoparius, 
another neither climbing nor winding shrub, furnish the “ rose- 
wood ”’ of the Canaries, which when rubbed has a scent of roses. 
CoRONILLA. 
C. glauca has established itself in the semi-wild places of the 
garden, as has also, to a less extent, C. valentina. The latter was 
