SEIFRIZ: THE TaLipoT PALM AT PERADENIYA, CEYLON 343 
taneous flowering, it has not yet been discovered. The following 
additional observations further support this conclusion.* 
Fic. 1. The avenue of sei oe palms in the Peradeniya Gardens, Ceylon, 
in December, 1920. Seven out of the twenty palms composing the avenue 
flowered in 1918. It will 2 noticed that the palm at the end of the avenue 
on the left is here in full foliage while in plate 8 it is in flower. 
* In connection with this habit of monocarpy in long lived plants, it is 
of interest to note that Wieland (12) has established its presence in at least 
two if not six species of fossil cycads. In Cycadeoidea Dartoni the armour is 
packed with hundreds of mature cones with no trace of a succeeding foliar 
crown, 
