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Habitat. — In the moist warm forests of the old Republic Colum- 

 bia (Karsten) ; Trinidad (Grisebach) ; Venezuela (Bot. Gard. of 

 Buitenzorg). 



Cultivation in Europe. — The Savannah Palm must be treated as 

 a stove plant. 



Illustration. — Plate XXXII represents a group of palms from 

 the Royal Botanic Gardens, Peradeniya. The photograph is by 

 Mr. Macmillan. 



To the left of the picture there is dense tuft of the Spiny Licuala 

 (Licuala spinosa, Wurmb. j, which we described in the last number 

 of this Journal on p. 81. The palm in the centre is the Savannah 

 Palm (Sabal mauritigeformis, Gr. et. Wendl.), whilst on the 

 right there is a small specimen of Livistona chinensis R. Br. 



This palm may easily be distinguished by the following charac- 

 ters : The chief divisions of the leaves have got 3 ribs ; the colour 

 of the undersurface of the leaves is glaucescent ; the fruits are 

 very much narrowed at the base ; the seed is provided with a 

 «entral-rotundate tubercle and the hilum is considerably eccentric ; 

 three stamens of the fruiting perianth are erect and three reflexed; 

 the eorolla-lobes are acuminate and not nervose-costulate. 



SABAL BLACKBURNIANA, Glazebrook in Loudon's Gardener's Mag. 

 V (1829), 54, cum ic. xylogr. ; Roem. & Schult. Syst. Veg. VII, 1488 ; 

 Hemsley in Voy. Challenger, Botany I, 70, t. VI — IX (excl. syn, aliquibus) 

 Becc. in Webbia II (1907), 54. — Sahal palmetto (non Roem. & Schult.) 

 Rein in Bericht Senckenb. Naturforsch. Gesellsch., Frankfurt a. M. (1873) 

 150; J. Morris in Bull. Torrey Bot. Club (1885) 72.— Sabal Adansoni (non 

 Guers.) A. H. Moore, List of PI. collect, in Bermuda 1906, et exsiccata no 

 3142 (ex Becc. 1. a.).— Sahal Mocini Hort., Riccobono in Boll. Soc. Ort. 

 Palermo (1904) 32. — Chammrops excelsa and Chamterops palmetto 

 Lefroy's List Bermuda PI. (ex. Hemsl. 1. c.) — Chamcerops glabra Jones, 

 Naturalist in Bermuda, 136 (ex. Hemsl. 1. c.) Inodes Blackburniana O. F. 

 Cook in Bull. Torrey Bot. Club (1901) 531. 



Name. — Bermuda Palm. 



Description. — Trunk stout, straight, columnar, cylindrtc, grow- 

 ing more than 40 feet high, 1^ feet in diameter, annulate-cicatri- 

 cose- Leaves of adult plant very large, suborbicular, with numerous 



