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Chrysalidocarpus ; it comes from New Britain Island, one of the 
Bismarck Archipelago in the East Indies. Another species, Z. 
horrida, quite different from this in the appearance of the leaves, 
will be found in house no. 15; this is from Malaysia. In the 
same house is also a small plant of Arenga saccharifera, of great 
economic use in the East Indies, where it is widely distributed. 
It grows to about forty feet in height and furnishes many articles 
necessary to the inhabitants; among others the coarse fibrous 
material borne at the base of the petioles is manufactured into 
ropes, clothing, etc., which are very durable as the fiber has the ° 
property of shedding water. This is also one of the toddy and 
sago palms of that region. 
Near Licuala grandis is another of our native palm genera, 
Neowashingtonia, in two species, NV. jilifera, the weeping palm, 
from southern California and western Arizona, and WV. robusta, 
from western Mexico. Our plants are quite small, WV. robusta 
just beginning to show its trunk. MV. f4fera grows from 20 to 
40 feet tall, the base diameter of the trunk measuring 2 to 
3 feet. The old leaves are persistent, hanging down and entirely 
concealing the upper part of the trunk in old specimens, and 
giving the palm a very shaggy appearance. NV. rodusta is similar 
to this, but is stouter and has shorter and more spiny petioles. 
Near the southern entrance, to the right of the walk, will be 
found a specimen of another rather rare plant, Dédymosperma 
porphyrocarpon, from Java. This is a low-growing species, 4-8 
feet tall, making numerous offshoots from the base. It resembles 
in leaf-form the genus Caryofa, to which it is related. It has 
been in flower off and on for the past few months, and gives 
promise of so continuing for some time. 
Perhaps the rarest plant in the collection is the small one of 
Lodoicea Sechellarum. This was secured from Mr. Falconer, of 
Pittsburgh, and is one of several he succeeded in germinating, a 
feat, we believe, not before accomplished in this country. Its 
small size and difficulty of culture require keeping it, at least for 
atime, at the propagating houses, where it can get more heat 
and moisture than is possible in the large palm house. It is 
called the double cocoanut, from the twin character which the 
