THE ILLUSTRATION ] 



COCOS WEDDELLIAXA. 



Nat. Oed. PALMACEAE. 

 ETYMOLOGY : from xo*xo ; , a kind of fruit, according to Linnet 

 GENERIC CHARACTER: see IUustr. hortic, t. III. TO b pL 1 

 SPECIFIC CHARACTER: arbuscula erecta, 2 m -3'" alta. eWiw ,,'!' 

 frondes surrectao arcuatae brunneo squammosae; petioli gracflea 

 reticulatis runs dissolventibus, supra basin annulati; pinnae altei 

 acutae, 12-20 cent, (et ultra) longe, 7 mill, latae, planae, basi co . 

 supra atrovirides, subtus glaucescentes , costa superne vis prominenl 

 riore 25 cent., interiore 5-7 cent, longa, ramis divaricatia rapenie 

 lanceolatis; petala 3, stamina 6; — fern. : caty# et corolla triphylli; 

 calcarata; annulus staminodalis brcvis; ovarium ovoidemn, stigmata 

 Brasilianis montibus dictis Sierra dos Orgaos, prope Rio do Janeiro. 



Oocos Weddelliana , H. Wendland, mss. — Seemann, bG 

 1871, niaio. 



Q-laziova eleg-antissima, Linden, Catalogues. 

 Leopoldinia pulctira (?), Martius, Palm. 59, t. 52, 53. 



The most graceful of all Palms, whose airy, delicate same uses. Thii 

 foliage is now becoming familiar at our horticultural shows. Linden inijM.rtc 

 Its handsome, dark green, shining , elegantly curved leaves, Ilort. On tin- .. 

 have gained for it the first place for dinner table decoration. 

 This marked particularity has been the cause of Coeos Wed- 

 delliana receiving several names in gardens , the respective 

 claims of which are even now not finally settled. It is said 

 that Leopoldinia pulchra of Martius belongs to our plant, 

 but of this there is no certainty, for according to the famous 

 Martius , L. pulchra grows in the provinces of Rio Negro authen 

 and Para, in eastern Brazil. It is employed in the decoration and frui 

 of their churches , and it is carried in processions ; it is compared 

 also used for making hedges, by cutting the trunks in the especialy the 

 forests and planting them side by side without regard to hope before 

 their height. Now L. insignis (Martius Palm, 60) likewise 

 grows in the virgin forests of Para , and is applied to the 



A NEW HARDY SHRUB. 



Philadelphus Souvenir de Billiard. — A free-growing, 

 vigorous shrub, ten feet or more in height; branches attain- 

 ing a length of four or five feet , furnished throughout with 

 flowering branchlets, bearing numerous flowers, arranged 

 in threes on axillary peduncules. Flowers well formed, 

 exceeding an inch in diameter, possessing a very slight 

 odour, and therefore suitable for water bouquets, produced 

 in great profusion during the latter half of June, when 

 there are few other shrubs in bloom. 



