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6 inches long. The Psoralea is an old garden plant often grown 
under the erroneous name of P. pinnata. A native of South Africa, 
it is usually given greenhouse treatment, but in the garden o 
Mr. T. A. Dorrien Smith, at Tresco Abbey, Isles of Scilly, from 
whom the specimen figured was received, it flourishes out-of-doors 
and flowers in April. 
Coco de Mer in British Guiana—Through the courtesy of the 
General Secretary of the Linnean Society of London we are 
enabled to publish two interesting photographs of young Coco-de- 
Mer plants (Lodoicea sechellarum, Labill.), growing in the Botanic 
Gardens, Georgetown, British Guiana. The photographs, we learn 
from a letter sent by Mr. F. A. Stockdale, Assistant Director and 
Government Botanist, British Guiana, were taken eB 
Williams, Assistant Government Analyst, at Mr. Stockdale’s 
request. Short notices of the flowering of these palms have been 
ublished in the Reports of the Botanic Gardens, British Guiana, 
‘The photographs exhibited represent two of three plants new 
growing in these gardens—one a female, the other a male, growing 
24 feet apart ; the third plant has not yet shown its sex 
In 1898 eight were alive, but were reduced to six during the next 
year. In 1902 five remained, and two subsequently died, leaving 
only the three present plants. 
“In March, 1907, the first spadix was produced with seven pis- 
tillate flowers, close to the ground. This plant was, therefore, not 
more than thirteen years old, making a record as against the 30 years 
stated in Lindley and Moore’s “ Treasury of Botany ” as the time 
for the first flowers to be produced. Two more spadices were pro- 
duced in the same year, two during the next, two more in 1909, and 
one this year. 
“The small plant produced its first spadix in 1908, two more in 
1409, and one this year, that shown in the photograph with a few 
developed flowers. One fruit of the fourth spadix is seen in the 
second photograph developing, like an enormous coco-nut, depressed 
ovoid in shape, 15 inches long, 12 inches wide, and 9 inches thick. 
Two others are also developing, conical in shape, 9 inches long, and 
5 inches in diameter. 
