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M.flexuosa. — Another superb plant, whioh must be grown. 

 Standing in water. The petioles are quite smooth, broadly 

 sheathing at the base ; leaves forming a complete ray, and 

 split into segments quite down to the raehis ; these are 

 pendent and dark green, producing a very graceful effect. 

 Native of Tropical America. . 



Maxdiilluna. 



This small genus contains the most majestic and hand- 

 some Palm yet discovered upon the American continent. 

 The stems are slender and quite destitute of spines, and 

 are reported to exceed in some instances a hundred feet 

 in height. The flower spikes are branched, and completely 

 enclosed in a woody boat-like spathe, some five or six feet 

 in length and two in breadth ; these spathes remain upon 

 the trunk several years after the flowers and fruit have 

 fallen awjiy, and present an exceedingly curious appearance ; 

 the flowers are unisexual, frequently produced upon the 

 same spike, but sometimes only upon separate ones. As a 

 genus it is evidently allied to Gocos, and requires the same 

 treatment. 



M. regia. — This plant is only known to us in a young 

 state. The leaves, when mature, attain a length of from 

 thirty to fifty feet ; they are pinnate, the pinnse being long, 

 narrow,, pendent, and dark green. It forms a beautiful 

 object in the stove, and also for the decoration of apart- 

 ments. Native of South America. 



Mimosa. 



A somewhat extensive genus, belonging to the order 

 ^ahacecB, many of them remarkable for handsome flowers, 

 but none, that we are aware of, possessing much beauty in 

 foliage. The name is derived from Mimos, a mimic, in 



