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Rhapis Jlabelliformis foliis luteo-vittatis (Flore des Serres, 1844-5). — An ex- 

 tremely beautiful variegated palm, also figured in plate 28, Hibberd's Beautiful- 

 leaved Plants. As we have but few variegated-leaved palms, this is a veritable 



UUAl'IS FLABELLIFOKMIS. 



prize, the more to be valued (at all events, by amateurs) because it grows slowly, 

 and does not, when mature, attain to any great size. The leaves are elegantly 

 variegated with yellow stripes. 



Cucuinis anguria (Bot. Mag., t. 5817). — Dr. Hooker says, "This, the plant 

 which produces the fruit long and well known in commerce as a principal ingre- 

 dient in West Indian pickle, is much less well known than might be supposed, 

 and its history, even at the present time, is obscure. Though a reputed native 

 of the Antilles, it is known there, I believe, in cultivation only ; and being the 

 only species of the large genus to which it belongs, which has hitherto been re- 

 garded as a native of the New World, its claims to being really indigenous are, 

 as Monsieur Naudin hints, very suspicious. For my own part, after a careful 



