PLATE DXCIX. 



CHAM^ROPS HUM1LIS 



Dwarf Fan-Palm. 



CLASS XXIII. ORDER II 



POLYGAMIA DICECIA. 



Stamens and Pointals on different Plants, with 



perfect Flowers occasionally 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Masc. Calyx 3-partitus. Corolla 3 -petala. Sta- 

 mina 6. 



Hermaph. Calyx, corolla et stamina ut in 

 masculis. Styli 3. Drupae 3, monospermy 



! 



Males. Cur 3-parted. Blossom 3-petalled. Sta- 

 mens 6. 



Hermaphrodites. Cup, blossom and stamens 

 as in the males. Styles 3. Berries 3, dry, 

 one- seeded. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Cham-krops frondibus palmatis, stipitibus spi- 



nosis, spathA simplici. 



p. 1154. 



mud. sp. pi. 4. 



' v * ~ ww ivu pcuiixiatC uuu 



stalks, and simple sheaths. 



foot- 



REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 



1 . Empalement and blossom. 



2. The same shown from the outer side. 



3. The chives. 



the coast of Etrud m .1 e Island JTsfci 1 £? Tn «f° ?™S ' ^ * gr ° WS natUra11 ? in ^ on 

 informed by Cavanilles, in hi loots pt £um (vol H nV'JZT? °' ^T^ Where ™ are 

 *nd in that tract called Desierto de las PaZas o rtheDesert J %T T™' 7 f ° Und S,emless > 

 ing two feet in heigh, . J n the district of XabeT howe er onThe coalt oTtheMed t? 3 ^ ^2 

 many with stems fourteen feet hijrh and nnp a - k£h *'u ? r L? e Medlte rranean, he found 



the lower part of the stem wlS enters the ir h g ai d t7 ?'' f ^ "3* aUthor bforms us that 

 from the sheath, are eaten by ,he Spanhrd to « hnm . th f, heads of 3™ n S blossoms before they burst 

 • ng them with mats, ropes, Com ^an ba keT. T 1° T^ ^ °/ th , e S reatest utility, finish- 

 employed, and women during thH enings in wint'e tllnTnf °T ° f WhlCh ^ are f****** 

 their evenings less usefully. Professor Pon ed^r ^ in J 1 ^, ^ ^ tair countrywomen, we fear, spend 



given three good plates of the Ctom^™ -^'fiwfi " hoIog , ,af PUbh,hed at Padua in '720, has 

 was twelve feet h U, growing i ^ the nub ic Irtr ™f cat '™> taken rrom a plant, the stem of which 



Shoot, or suckers flomlhe botU of f^J^XtZ're iTv^T^ ^J"? ?* *■ *"»* 

 Chamsrops also grows spontaneously unn?™, n , ^ u n cefa g lloni > *"» ea ten by the Italians. The 



part of the • ounfstems ami the 3 are also e?t,n h 1 xi " the C ° 3St ° f Balbar >'> where thc Iower 

 in water, made into mats, rope! basket? tr I I ** M c° rS l a " d the leaves ' after bein S macerated 

 p. 473.) Willdenow taksSeofS S&SfJfF^ 8 * Desf ontaines» Flora Atlanta, vol. iii. 

 and the other twenty feet in hei "ht and the for'lf J he , Chama *°PS one of which is nearly stemless, 

 we have never met with any of a lame size ST f ^f ,s P robabl y ^ cultivated in England, as 

 Wh while that in the JarSfn de Plante at Par , Z w^™ fe l J een in ° Ur S ardens since ^ X«r 

 Lamarck in the Encyclop ll^Z^l^t^l^ ^>1 m ^ionedby the Chevalier 



male 



pi 



Our drawing was taken 

 about two feet in height 





