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send up suckers in abundance which may be carefully re- 
moved and used for propagation. Professor H. Nehrling has a 
most excellent article on the date palms in Florida in Bailey’s 
‘Encyclopedia of Horticulture.” 
Pinanga. A genus of usually slender-stemmed palms some of 
which send up suckers quite freely. They are from the Malayan 
region and are therefore tender. Two or three species have been 
cultivated in the warmer parts of the state and it is probable 
that they will do best in partial shade. 
Ptychospermas are Oriental palms which seem to be but little 
understood, most of the members being now placed in other 
genera. P. macarthuri is a beautiful, tufted species of which I 
have a large and fine example. It eventually forms large clumps, 
and is a native of New Guinea. There is another specimen in 
the grounds of Mrs. Marian McAdow at Punta Gorda. 
Raphia ruffia is a magnificent palm from the Mascarene 
Islands and Madagascar which produces the fiber called rafha. It 
has a tall caudex and the immense leaves reach a length of fifty 
to sixty feet. I have several times grown this palm from seed 
to a height of over a foot and it has died but I see no reason why 
it should not succeed. Another majestic palm from the Amazon 
has been called Raphia taedigera but I can hardly believe that 
it belongs in this genus. 
Rhopalostylus baueri and R. sapida, the only species of the ge- 
nus, are hardy palms from Norfolk Island and New Zealand, 
formerly placed in Areca. I have had small plants of both but 
have not had sufficient experience with them to say what they 
will do. 
Roscheria melanochaetes is a slender, spiny palm from the Sey- 
chelles, with leaves from three to five feet long and two to three 
feet wide that are entire when young but more or less pinnate 
when old. It should be grown in the shade and probably is 
tender. This and the two following have entirely failed for me 
after repeated trials in the open ground. 
Stevensonia grandifolia is one of the most beautiful of palms 
having very large, bifid, reddish green leaves; the whole plant 
is beset with spines. It is possible that it may be grown in a 
