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We have no practical experience of tlie cultivation of this palm, 

 but considering the geographical distribution of the species, we 

 should rather say, that it will prefer an unheated greenhouse to the 

 moist temperature of a hothouse. 



Beccari mentions two specimens which he is cultivating in 

 the open in the vicinity of Florence, and he says that the plants 

 are doing ver}^ well in the northern Mediterranean region. 



Illustrations. — We are indebted to Mr. H. V. Kemball, Mr. 

 R. T. Harrison, and Mr. Advani for the following two photo- 

 graphs : 



Plate XXI shows a characteristic landscape in Baluchistan with a 

 dense growth of Nannorho^ys. The palms grow in thick small 

 clusters and are about 6 feet high as a rule. The Railway station 

 which is seen in the photograph is the Nakas Railway station, 

 about 5 hours journey from Sibi towards Quetta side. 



Plate XXII. A cluster of Nannorhops from the same place. 



LIOUALA, Thunb. Acta Holm. 1782, 84. 



(uertn. Fruct. II, t. 139.— Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm, III, 234, t. 

 134, 135, 162.— Kunth Enum. PL III, 238.— Bl. Rumph. II, 37, 

 t. 82, 88-93, II, 47, t. 94.— Griff'., Palms Brit. Ind. 117, t. 221 A, 

 B, C, 224-224 A, B.— Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. Ill, 51, suppl. 254, 

 591.— Kurz For. FL II, 527.— Walp. Ann. Ill, 469, V, 815.— 

 Becc. Males. I, 80.— Wendl. & Drude Linn. 39, 191, t. 3, fig. 

 2.— Benth. FL Austr. VII, 144.— Drude Bot. Zeitg. 1877, 638, t. 

 6, fig. 36-38.— Benth. & Hook. Gen. PL III, II, 928, 96.— 

 Hook. FL Brit. Ind. VI, 430. 



Low, rarely tall palms ; stems annulate. Leaves more or less 

 orbicular, or flabellate, plicate, deeply partite; petiole usually 

 spinous. Spadices interfoliar, sheathed by tubular, coriaceous, 

 persistent spathes, simple or branched, glabrous, tomentose or 



