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309, in obs. — Molincea micrococcos Bert, in Mercurio Chileno 1829, anglice 

 in Silliman American Jour. XX., 251. — Micrococcos chilensis Philippi in 

 Bot. Zeitg. XVII, 1859, 362 ; ann. Univ. chil. 1859, 651. 



Names. — IJnglish : Coquito Palm of Chili, Ooquito nut Palm, 

 Wine Palm of Chili. The fruit : Monkey's cocoaniit, [Little 

 coker-ntit,], Pigmy cocoanuts, Stanley nuts. 



In Chili : Palma de coco. 



French : Jubee. 



German : Syruppalme, Mielpalme, Honigpalme, Chilenische 

 Cocospalme, Coquitopalme. 



Spanish : Miel de palmas. 



Description. — Trunk stout, swollen in the middle, which in its 

 native country, sometimes attains a height of 40 — 60 feet. The 

 summit surmounted by a crown of large, spreading pinnate leaves, of 

 a full deep green colour, 6 — 12 feet long; leaflets 1 — 1-|- feet long, 

 and about 1 inch wide, springing in pairs from nearly the same spot, 

 and standing out in different directions. The leaf-stalks very thick 

 at the base, where they are enclosed in a dense mass of rough brown 

 fibres, which grow upon their lower edges. 



Spadices 3- — 4 feet long, with about 100 branches 1 — 2 feet 

 longc For details of flower and fruit see description of genus.* 



Habitat. — Chili. 



According to Watson in the " Gardener's Chronicle," 2nd Novem- 

 ber 1895, thei'e is some danger that this palm will soon be exstir- 

 pated from Chili, through the wholesale felling of the trunks for 

 the Palm-honey. When Darwin visited Chili in 1832, as recorded 

 in his " Voyage of the Beagle," it was very abundant in the country 

 roTind Valparaiso, he having counted several hundred thousand trees 

 on one estate alone. The late Mr. John Ball was there in 1882, and 

 although he devotes a considerable portion of his book (Notes of a 

 Naturalist in South America) to the flora of Chili, he does not even 



*For further information on this palm we refer to the folio wing- publications: — 



Birganti Vincenzo. Descrizione di una. nuova varieta del cocos chilensis. Istit 

 Incor. Sir Nat. Napoli Atti V, 256-279, d. pi. (1831). 



Wossidlo P. Ueber die Structur der Jubtea spectabilis ein Beitrag- zur Anatomie 

 der Palmen. Leop. — Carol. Akad. Naturf. Verb. XXVIII. No. 5 (ISfil). 



Philippi R. A. Phoenix dactvlifera, Jubjea spectabilis uud Luma cheken. 

 Gartenfl. XXVIII 301— .305 (1879). 



Kegel E. Jubsea spectabilis, Gartenfl. XXXIII, 35 pi. 1145, (1884). 



Soehrens F. Le Jubasa spectabilis dans sa patrie. lUustr. Hortic. XXXV 8 — 9 

 (1888). 



Nardy, in Bull. Soc Acclirnat. Paris, VI (ser. 4) 754- 756 (1889.) 



Bergman E. in Jour. Soc. Hort. Prance ser. 3, XII, d- pi., (18!^0). 



Johow F. Ueber die chilenische Palme. Verhandl- Deutsch. Wiss. Verein Santiago 

 IV, 1900. 



Arcangeli G- Sopra una pianta di Jub^a spectabilis coltivata nell' Orto Botanico 

 Pisano Boll. Soc Bot. Ital. (1901) 34—28. 



Interesting notes are found in the " Gardeners Chronicle" : V- (1874), 413, with 

 one illustration; ser. 2, XVIII (1882), 401-402; ser. 3, XVII (1895), 518, iUustr. 

 89—90. 



