CEROXYLON ANDICOLA. 



CEROXYLON OF THE ANDES 



NAT. ord. PALMAGEAK. 



ETYMOLOGY : from K>o:, wax. and W,n, wood: Wax Palm 



GENERIC CHARACTER : Caudex simplex: folia pinnata: spa flu 



spathis;in infimis solummodo femineis; — masc: calyx duplex. ex1 



stylus nullus, stigmata tria, caetera masculorum. — Fein. : ralyr pre 



crassa, unilocular! s. mon^pcniKi. kid imp<>riorat-a: .s^wh coniorme; al 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER: palma exccfcissiuui, inermis, ww/w 



amiulafo. /o/'V.s pinitntis p'mnis subhis peeul iavi pube argenteis; spatl 



dens, ramosissimus , ramis paniculatis. (Hdmb. et Boxlp., Planlcs £p 



Ceroxylon andicola. Humb. et Bonpl-. 1. c. — Mart. Hi: 



Iriartea andicola. Sprengel. — Kunth, enura. plant. III. 



This splendid Palm-tree, discovered by Humboldt and 

 Bonpland on the mountain chain of Quindiu, which sepn- ' i 

 rates the valleys of the rivers Magdalena and Cauca in i 

 New-Granada, in 35, N. lat., is one of the handsomest « 

 members of the vegetable kingdom. It was found, too, by | i 

 M. Linden at the Volcano of Tolima, on the Sierra Nevada < 

 of Santa Martha, and also occurs near the top of the peaks j 

 of San Juan, in the vicinity of Guaduas, and probably in 

 other localities as well. Its habitat on the lofty mountains | 

 has surprised all botanists, for even within the tropics T 

 rarely ascend beyond an altitude < 

 otherwise with the Wax Palm, wh 

 plains, but, on the contrary, rears its majestic 

 pinnate leaves upon a lofty, slender stem on th 

 slopes, at an altitude varying from about 5700 f 

 feet above the sea-level, equal to the height 



feet. But 



greater eleva 



It has ever 



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 dng one c 

 tallest of 



America, 

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