34 SILVA OF NORTH AMERICA. PALME. 
The genus, which owes its name to its fancied resemblance to Phcenix, belongs to another tribe, 
probably the Chamedore. It is represented by a single species. 
the border of a field which had recently been cleared for the culti- André in the Revue Horticole (1887, 34) ; and also in the Bullettino 
vation of Pineapples. della Societa R. Toscana di Orticultura (xii.64). In 1889 Sprenger 
The first account of the genus without characters, based on a published a popular description, without characters, of this Palm 
letter from Dr. Hermann Wendland, to whom its discovery had under the name of Sargentia Aricocca in the Bullettino della Societt 
been communicated, appeared in November, 1886, in The Botanical R. Toscana di Orticultura (xiv. 341). 
Gazette (xi. 314), and was afterward substantially reproduced by 
