PL. ecu. 

 AZALEA BETTINA DELLE \ ALU:. 



NAT. ORD. ERIC, 



For ETYMOLOGY and GENERIC and SPECIFIC CHARACTEI 

 Chaeacter of the Variety : — This charming new a D] 

 variety has lovely pink and white flowers, as delicately the 

 beautiful as the Marquis delle Valle di Casanova's child, whi 

 whose name it bears ; and Mr. de Pannemaeker's portrait of mia 

 it is a most successful and faithful one. It clothes itself with | 



TRITHRINAX BRASILIENSIS. MAR1 



NAT. ORD. PALME A E. 

 ETYMOLOGY : From TJ bs;, three, and Oowag, a fan. 

 GENERIC CHARACTER : Hermaphrodita aut polygamo-monoica (florihus aborta non omnibus 



pletae. Flores sessiles, bracteati. Calyx cupularis, trifidus. Corolla tripetala, petalis arrival ione j,. ,- , 

 basi subdistincta, hypogyna, antheris linearibus. Pi-fiUa tria. di-ri ,■ 



• armatis, laminarum laciniis mduj 1 



Trilhrinax, Mart. Palm. JBrasil. p. 149, 241, t. CIV; — End]. Gen., N" 17(i0: Kunth. Knmn.. 

 SPECIFIC CHARACTER : Caudex gracilis, diaraetro 2-3 polhcari in 

 pallide rubello, et ad peripberiam satiu |ileruni<jue a«l- 



parte dense obvolutus basibus frondium persistentil his. in inleriniv eieatricilais I'mii-limn delapsannn de 

 vertice sex ad octo, patentes et erecto-pa1 elites, paueae preleiva <utnt>;. •' • > e,,tae dependents 

 basi vaginante sunt instruct i e lika's cr;;s-is finnis Heidi's facta et ita descn.>satini rontex 

 fibrae verticales ulterius promissae in spinas subulai ■> < mi] uiai - i <eunt. Antiea petioWinn pars < 

 scriptione fere orbiculari, colore saturate viridi. Jjjmiiia dividitur in ladnia- li-'-ilT linearis }«r dna 

 se liberas, per tertiam partem unitas et eonnatas. bi '■< s. Spatha universalis nu 



caudice flores masculos et femineos mixtos continent. Rami spadicis breves, conferti. in floriboa n 

 plagam occupant, stamina sex, petalifi i obvolata. Color florum viridnlus. J'isi 



octo millimeti. tdi, demum nigricante, pulpa parca. — In provincia Jlio-drtntdi 



Sierra, prope Cordillera oriental (d"Orbigny) (Martins, in d'Orb. Yoy. v. VIE p. 41). 



This fine Palm is a native of Brazil, which the Indian bracing sheaths of the base o 

 Guarayos, who use the- spiny sheaths wherewith to plait composed of fibres which are ,r 

 hats, call Saho, near Santa Cruz de la Sierra; and it is the then obliquely interlaced, and 

 Huaichich of the Chiquitos. Martins met with it in South angles, like the Pandanus m.ii 

 Brazil, Weddelland in Bolivia , and d'Orbigny near the 31 st from the Antilles and Boorbc 

 parallel of south latitude, on the Rio-Parana, it also grows in unite, forming a series of ve 

 Bolivia under the 17th. degree, in clumps and woods. curved downwards, and evide 



In addition to its beautiful fan-shaped foliage, glaucous tion of the flower and frui 

 beneath, this handsome Brazilian Palm offers a remarkable animals. 

 peculiarity. It consists in the unusual disposition of the em- 



