354 SELECT PLANTS FOR INDUSTRIAL CULTURE 



Zalacca secunda, Griffith, 



Assam, as far north as 28. A stemless Palm with large 

 feathery leaves, exquisitely adapted for decorative purposes. 

 Before we finally quit the Asiatic Palms we may yet learn 

 from Von Martius's great work how many extra-tropical 

 members of this princely Order were already known in 1850, 

 when that masterly work was concluded. Martius enumerates 

 as belonging to the boreal extra-tropical zone in Asia : From 

 Silhet at 24 north latitude : Calamus erectus, Roxb. ; C. 

 extensus, Roxb. ; C. quinquenervius, Roxb. ; -from Garo at 

 26? north latitude : Wallichia caryotoides, Roxb. ; Ptycho- 

 sperma gracilis, Miq. ; Caryota urens, L. ; Calamus leptospadix, 

 Griff. ;from Khasya, in 26 North latitude : Calamus acantho- 

 spathus, Griff.; C. macrospathus, Griff.; Plectocomia 

 Khasyana, Griff. \from Assam, about 27 north latitude : 

 Areca Nagensis, Griff. ; A. triandra, Roxb. ; Livistona 

 Jenkinsii, Griff.; Daemonorops nutantiflorus, Griff.; D. 

 Jenkinsii, Griff. ; D. Guruba, Mart. ; Plectocomia Assamica, 

 Griff. ; Calamus tenuis, Roxb. ; C. Flagellum. Griff. ; C. 

 Heliotropium, Hamilt. ; C. floribundus, Griff. ; Phoenix 

 Ouseloyana, Griff. \from Upper Assam, between 28 and 29 

 north latitude : Caryota obtusa, Griff. ; Zalacca secunda, Griff. ; 

 Calamus Mishmelensis, Griff. ;from Darjiling, at 27 north 

 latitude : Wallichia obtusif olia, Griff. ; Licuala peltata, Roxb. ; 

 Plectocomia Himalaiana, Griff.; Calamus schizospathus, 

 Griff.; -from Nepal, between 28 and 29" north latitude: 

 Chamaerops Martiana, Wall. ;~from Guhrval, in 30 north 

 latitude : Calamus Royleanus, Griff, --from Saharanpoor, in 

 30 north latitude: Borassus flabelliformis, Ij.;from Duab, 

 in 31 north latitude : Phoenix sylvestris, Roxb. ; -from Kheree, 

 in SCP north latitude : Phcenix humilis, Royle ; -from DeJcan : 

 Bentinckia Coddapanna, Berry, at an elevation of 4,000 feet. 

 Miquel mentions as Palms of Japan (entirely extra-tropical) : 

 Rhapis flabelliformis, Aiton ; R. humilis, Blume ; Cham- 

 serops excelsa, Thunb. ; Livistona Chinensis, Br. ; and Arenga 

 saccharifera, Labill., or a species closely allied to that 

 Palm. 



Zea Mays, Linn&* 



The Maize or Indian Corn. Indigenous to the warmer parts 

 of South America. St. Hilaire mentions as its native country 

 Paraguay. Found in Central America already by Columbus. 

 This conspicuous, though annual, cereal grass interests us on 

 this occasion as being applicable to far more uses than those 

 for which it has hitherto been employed. In North America, 



