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Bethany = house of dates. P. reclinata from Natal 

 is in the Orchid House. 



iii. Corypheae, including Sabal, Corypha, Chamaerops, 

 Coperniria, Thrinax. Chamaerops humilis, the 

 hardiest of all our palms and indigenous to the 

 south of Europe, is housed in the Conservatory. 



In the Palm House are the Carnauba or Brazilian 

 Wax Palm ; Copernida cerifera, from which candles 

 may be made ; Pritchardia padfica ; Livistona 

 inermis; Thrinax morrisii^ a dwarf palm of 

 Anguilla ; and Thrinax parvi flora, of which a 

 small specimen was brought from Cuba by 

 Dr. Daubeny in 1838 (G. C. 1864). 



iv. Lepidocaryeae. Calamus stipionum produces the 

 Malacca canes used for walking-sticks and rods 

 for chimney-sweeping. 



v. Borassus, the Palmyra Palm, is the type of the fifth 

 tribe to which the Coco de Mer belongs. 



vi. Cocoinede^ represented by Cocos flexuosa. 



The common Cocoa-nut Palm, Cocos nudfera, is not always 

 grown in the Garden. It is of varied and great utility, 

 as it supplies the native of the tropics with thatch for his 

 houses; with the materials for matting, brooms, and timber; 

 with oil, expressed from the dried kernel or copra ; with 

 food for both man and beast ; with a liquor (toddy) capable 

 of fermentation, and convertible into the ardent spirit known 

 as arrack ; and with fibres suited as a material for preparing 

 coir hawsers. Cocoa-nut oil is used in the manufacture of 

 composite candles, and some 8,000 tons are annually imported 

 into this country. 



To the Order of Screw Pines -belongs Pandanus panderi. 



The Dragon Trees are the largest of the members of the 

 Order of Lilies. One Dracaena draco grew to the colossal 



