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least. When repotting is unnecessary, a light top-dress- 

 ing may be given instead. It is essential that the ball 

 should be in a proper condition regarding moisture, at 

 the time of repotting, whether of small or large speci- 

 mens. In a young state, the smallest shifts are recom- 

 mended, consistent with the rate of progress made by the 

 plants. In houses of large dimensions, Palms may be 

 planted out ; at least, those which are calculated to attain 

 a great height, and are expected to be otherwise propor- 

 tionately large when developed. For a conservatory, of 

 course, only a few will succeed all the year round ; yet 

 these should be utilised for specimens in some part of 

 the beds. The main points in the successful culture of 

 Palms so treated, are much the same as if they were in 

 pots, namely, good drainage and plenty of water. In 

 summer, syringing morning and evening may be freely 

 practised ; in winter, the moisture from evaporation, caused 

 by damping the floor and stages, will usually be found 

 sufficient. As Palms have to remain, perhaps, many years 

 in the same soil, it is important that only such as is 

 suitable should be used. Some authorities recommend 

 equal proportions of loam, vegetable mould, peat, and 

 sand, as a general compost. Anything tending to decay, 

 except very slowly indeed, should not be used, as, pos- 

 sibly, it might kill, rather than encourage, the roots. 

 Peat is not altogether a necessity for established Palms ; 

 in yellow loam, with plenty of sand, and some charcoal 

 intermixed, they will grow well, and make firmer, yet, 

 perhaps, somewhat slower growth, which is, of the two, 

 more desirable. Manure water is of great assistance to 

 Palms when their roots are somewhat restricted, pro- 

 vided the plants are in good health. It should be made 

 from cow-manure and soot, which imparts a healthy ap- 

 pearance to the leaves. Some information on culture, 

 and references to the uses for which various Palms are 

 best suited, will be found under all the more important 

 genera included in Palmece throughout this work. 



PALMATE. Having five lobes, the midribs of which 

 meet in a common point, so that the whole bears some 

 similarity to the human hand ; e.g., the leaf of the 

 common Passion-flower. 



FALMATITID. Cut half-way to 

 the base in a palmate manner. A 

 Palmatifid leaf is shown at Fig. 13. 



FALMATILOBED. Cut into 



shallow divisions hi a palmate manner. 



PALMATIPARTED, PAL- 



MATISECT. Cut nearly to the 



base in a palmate manner. Almost FIG. 13. PALMATIFIU 



digitate. LEAP. 



PALM, CABBAGE. See Oreodoxa oleracea. 



PALM, DATE. See Phoenix dactylifera. 



PALMETTO, CABBAGE. See Sabal Palmetto. 



PALMETTO, DWARF. See Sabal Adansonii. 



PALMETTO PALM. See Sabal Palmetto. 



PALMETTO, SAW. See Serenoa serrulata. 



PALM, TAN. See Sabal Blackburniana. 



FALMIA (named after L. H. Palm, author of a work 

 on ' : The Climbing of Plants," published at Stuttgart, in 

 1827). STN. Shutereia. OBD. Convolvulaceas. A mono- 

 typic genus. The species is a beautiful, pubescent, 

 twining herb, inhabiting tropical Asia and Africa. It 

 may be raised from seeds, on a hotbed, in spring, and 

 the young plants, when of sufficient size, should be placed 

 in separate pots, and trained to sticks. Unless a very 

 warm and sheltered position is at command, they require 

 to be placed in the stove or greenhouse to blossom and 

 ripen their seeds. Hewittia is now the correct generic 

 name. 



Palmia continued. 



P. tricolor (two-coloured), fl. very white or pale yellowish, with 

 a dark purple centre, one to three on an axillary peduncle ; sepals 

 acute, the outer ones much broader ; corolla campanulate, with a 

 plicate, five-angled limb ; pedicels Tery short. August L broadly 

 cordate, entire, angled, or trilobed. 1812. (B. M. 2205 and B. B. 

 318, under name of Convolculus bicolor.) 



FALMISTE ROUGE. See Dictyosperma rubrum. 



FALMITE RUSH. See Prionium Palmita. 



PALM, PATANA. See (Enocarpus Bataua. 



PALM SAVANAH. S=?e Sabal mauritiaeformis. 



PALM, THATCH. See Sabal Blackburniana. 



PALM-VEINED. Having the main vein radiating 

 from a common point. 



PALMYRA-TREE. A common name for Borassus 

 flabelliformis. 



PALO DE VACA, or COW-TREE. See Galacto- 

 dendron utile. 



PALSY- WORT. An old common name for Primula 

 veris (which see). 



PALTONIUM. Included under Tsenitis (which 

 see). 



PALUDOSUS, PALUSTRIS. Growing in marshy 

 places. 



FALUMBINA (from palumbes, a wood-pigeon; in 

 allusion to the fancied resemblance which the flowers 

 bear to this bird). OKD. Orchideoe. A monotypic 

 genus, now included, by Bentham and Hooker, under 

 Oncidium. The species is an elegant stove orchid, the 

 flowers of which have been compared to " flying doves." 

 They remain a long time in perfection. For culture, see 

 Oncidium. 

 P. Candida (white). /. pure white, about lin. across, of a stout, 



waxy consistence ; lip with a few reddish spots ; racemes few- 

 narrow, solitary, oin. to 12in. long. 



Mexico, 1843. SYN. Onci- 



flowered. Summer. I. 



Pseudo-bulbs, narrow, compressed. 



dium candidum. (B. M. 5546.) 

 PAMPAS GRASS. See Gynerium. 

 FAN2ETIA. Included under Fodolepis (which see). 

 FANAX (an old Greek name, used by Theophrastus, 

 and akin to panalies, a panacea, or remedy, for all com- 

 plaints ; applied to the present plant in reference to the 

 stimulant drug, Ginseng, to which miraculous virtue is 

 ascribed by the Chinese). OED. Araliaceae. A genus 

 comprising about twenty-five species of stove, green- 

 house, or hardy, glabrous, or rarely woolly-tomentose 

 trees or shrubs, natives of tropical and Eastern Asia, 

 extending to Mandchuria, tropical Africa, the Pacific 

 Islands, New Zealand, and Australia. Flowers often 

 polygamous, in small umbels ; umbels rarely in contracted 

 heads, or in small, solitary, racemose or paniculate ra- 

 cemes ; petals five ; pedicels articulated beneath the 

 flowers. Fruit compressed or rarely sub-globose, fleshy, 

 or rarely sub-membranous. Leaves digitately or pin- 

 nately compound, or rarely undivided; leaflets entire, 

 argutely toothed or cut. P. diffusum, P. dissectum, 

 P. dumosum, P. fissum, P. laciniatum, P. plumatum, 

 P. Victoria, and others bearing specific names in 

 gardens, though distinct enough for horticultural pur- 

 poses, are, in all probability, mere forms of the variable 

 P. fruticosum. These plants are of moderately free 

 growth, and the majority are easy to manage. Those 

 requiring stove treatment should be potted in sandy 

 loam and peat, with the addition of a little leaf soil 

 and sand. The stronger-growing kinds thrive in a 

 richer compost. Propagation by cuttings of the roots 

 is a common and successful method. The stems of 

 plants from which the roots have been taken may also 

 be cut into pieces lin. or l^in. long, pressed into pots 

 of sand or sandy soil, and plunged in bottom heat. If 

 the stems are cut down without disturbing the roots, and 

 the pots are plunged in bottom heat, and kept moderately 



