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1-3 feet long, paniculate ; primary brainclies alternate, 5-6, 1^ feet 

 long ; branches and branchlets terete, glabrous. Flowers fascicu- 

 late, ternate or quaternate. Oalyx trifid, corolla tripartite, both 

 persistent. Drupe sessile, oblong-ellipsoidal (olive-shaped), 

 slightly constricted at the base, scar of style sub-depressed, 6-7i 

 lines long, 3^ lines broad, violaceous-green ; putamen thin, fragile ; 

 albumen white. 

 Habitat. — Java. 



LIVISTONA HOOGENDORFII, Teijsm. ex Teijsm. & Binn. Cat. Hort. 

 Bog. 71.— Andre, Illustr. Hortic. vol. 21 (1874), p. 108, 121, t. 174.— 

 Saribus Hoof/endorpii, ZoU. 



Name. — Hoogendorp's Livistona. 



Description. — Stem high, erect, showing triangular scars after 

 the fall of the petioles. Leaves rich dark green, fan-shaped, 

 suborbicular, 5-6-| feet in diameter, divided into 10-12 lobes of 

 which each has 5-7 sub-divisions, plicate at the base, linear acute at 

 the apex, slightly furfuraceous like the uppermost part of the petiole. 

 Petioles stout, triangular at the base, enclosed in a network of 

 reddish brown fibres, and trigonous, rounded on the dorsal side, 

 furrowed on the sides, 3^-5^ feet long, reddish brown at the base, 

 passing into olive green ; lateral spines in two rows, very stout, 

 reflexed, 1^-2^ inches distant from each other, towards the upper 

 part of the petiole smaller and closer together, tubercled at the base, 

 sharp pointed, -|-1^ inch long. 



Habitat. — Indian Archipelago. 



Cultivation in Europe. — Hoogendorp's Livistona was introduc- 

 ed in Europe in 1846. It is a very ornamental plant for the 

 hothouse. 



Illustration. — Plate XXVIII, reproduced after a photo- 

 graph of Mr. Macmillan, shows a j^oung specimen of Livistona 

 HoogendoTijii growing in the Eoyal Botanic Gardens of Pera- 

 deniya. 



The stem proper is not visible, being covered by the stout bases 

 of the leaf-stalks. The latter are distinctly armed with strong 

 slightly reflexed spines. 



