300 THE VEGETABLE WORLD. 
whole length of a tree, passing from one branch to another tor 
a length of 1,500 to 1,800 feet; from this tree the polished and 
flexible canes are made, known by the name of Malacca canes. 
The Ceroscyle of the Andes (Ceroscylon Andicola), the trunk of 
which in Persia rises to a height of 200 feet, produces a wax, 
which exudes from its leaves and from the base of its petioles. 
Tue NARCISSALS. 
Passing over the Hypratzs, which are represented by the 
Hydrocharidacex,—floating water plants with exalbuminous seeds 
and declinous flowers; natives of fresh water in Europe, North 
America, and the East Indies ;—the Na1aps, inhabiting both fresh 
water and the ocean, in which traces of the great class of Thal- 
logens are still observable ;—the small perennial TRICOREDACE, 
with creeping rhizome and simple erect and cellular stem ;—the 
TorTERACE®, or sea-wracks, whose habitat is the bottom of the 
ocean in the Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean,—we reach the 
Narcissals. 
The Nancissars are distinguished from all preceding Endogens 
by their short stem, rigid channeled leaves, often covered with 
cubicular scales, spinous points, and flowers of gay colour, borne 
in racemes or panicles in the Bromeliacee, of which the most 
remarkable species is the well-known Pine-apple, celebrated for 
: the sweetness and aroma of its fruit. 
: The tuberous rooted Taccacem are large perennial herbs, found 
in damp woods in the hotter parts of India, in the South-Sea 
Islands, and in the tropical parts of Africa. The HL xmoporack® 
are herbaceous plants, with fibrous perennial roots, and permar 
nent sword-shaped leaves and woolly flowers; natives ch 
North America, the Cape of Good Hope, and Australia. . 
Hyroxmpace® is an inconsiderable order of herbaceous : 
with tuberous or fibrous perennial roots, natives of the Cape 
Good Hope, Australia, the East Indies, and tropical America. 
The AMARYLLIDACER are generally bulbous plants, occasionally Py 
fibrous rooted, with a tall cylindrical woody stem, ensiform leaves 
__-with parallel veins,—singularly elegant plants, which have ~ 
been the favourite inhabitants of the greenhouses. The 
plants, 
iefly of 
