624 FLOWERS OF GARDEN AND GREENHOUSE 
young specimen, Also known as Leopoldinia pulchra and Glaziova 
elegantissima. 
OR These Palms are not so nearly hardy as previously 
described genera, and therefore not so suited for placing 
outside in summer. In this country their place is more distinctly in 
the stove. A mixture of loam and peat should be used for C. weddeliana ; 
the others thrive in loam and sand. Good drainage, and abundant water 
in summer, to be gradually reduced as winter approaches, is again the 
rule. They are in great request for the decoration of dwelling-rooms 
and the dinner-table, but where so employed they should be frequently 
changed, so that an early return to the stove will enable them to keep 
fresh and healthy. 
Description of Cocos weddeliana, Weddel’s Palm; a young specimen. 
_ The great Palm order comprises about one hundred and 
thirty genera and eleven hundred species, chiefly tropical. Many of 
them are in cultivation in European gardens, about four hundred 
species being represented at Kew. They are usually trees with erect, 
unbranched trunks, bearing heads of leaves which are either palmate, 
plumose, or simple. Only a few of the best known genera could be 
mentioned here, although the value of many of the Palms for decorative 
gardening has resulted in their increased popularity. 
SCREW PINES 
Natural Order PANDANEX. Genus Pandanus 
PANDANUs (derived from Pandang, the Malayan name of these plants), 
A genus of about eighty species of stove plants, chiefly trees and shrubs, 
andafew herbs. Trunk unbranched, forking, or with spreading branches. 
Leaves long and slender, sword-shaped, leathery, sheathing at the base; 
the edges and midrib armed with innumerable sharp, curved prickles. 
These leaves are arranged in three spiral series towards the ends of the 
branches, forming dense tufts or crowns. The male and female flowers are 
on different plants (diwcious): the males on a clustered, branched spadix, 
the females on a simple one. Fruit globular, oblong, or cylindrical. The 
headquarters of the genus are in the islands of the Malay Archipelago, 
the Mascarenes, and the Seychelles, whilst a few species are scattered 
over Asia, Africa, Tropical Australia, Oceania, and the West Indies. 
The Screw Pines are so called not because they have 
= either relationship or resemblance to the true Pines (Pinus, 
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