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common name, for they much resemble the ear of that popular 
animal. Brazil furnishes one representative in Blechnum Brasih- 
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macrophyllum, a native of tropical America. Quite different in 
appearance from all of these is Platycerium grande, one of the 
stag-horn ferns, an inhabitant of the northern part of Australia, 
represented by well-grown plants, some of them 2 or 3 feet tall. 
he Cycadaceae, in addition to a finely grown specimen of the 
sago palm, Cycas revoluta, are represented by a single plant of 
an unusual form, differing much in habit from both C. revoluta 
and C. circinalis, but much resembling the latter in the shape of 
the leaf-segment t has a prostrate stem w! ked near 
the end and bears two large crowns of leaves. At present we 
are unable to name it. 
Among the palms, the most valuable in this collection is a 
fine large specimen, some 18 feet high, of a palm which, in gen- 
eral appearance, much resembles a “Poncho and it was 
s a member of this genus that it came to us, but it is entirely 
een of thorns, and lacks other ace belonging to that 
enus. Its leaves are large, some 6 feet long, and merely toothed 
Ocean some 600 miles east of Madagascar, is reels orbe Verschaf- 
felt, a fine plant about Io feet high. In Rhapis flabelly ans of 
eastern si another type is represented, a leaves being fan- 
shaped, and coming nearer the ordinary conception of a palm leaf. 
Three or ee specimens of this are included. 
uite in contrast to the palms, though belonging to the same 
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perhaps the most valuable plant of the whole collection, is a mag- 
