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Astrocaryum; Geonoma, Oreodoxa, and Wallichia. There does not 
appear to be any good reason why such plants should not thrive equally 
wi P h er and many 
Brahea.—The true Braheas are represented by only fon species, all 
of them natives of Mexico. They are very similar to Thrinaxes in 
general appearance, and are related to them. The stems are smooth, 
about 30 feet high when mature, and the head is composed of short 
stalked palmate leaves, with a few short spines along the margins of the 
base of the petioles Gh. lucida (egregia), a tine plant in perfect health, 
year, the flowers open the next, and the seeds ripen the year following. 
Both these were in the gardens i Villa Valetta, Nice. B. nobilis, a fine 
specimen in the middle of a lawu at Monte Carlo. The blade of the 
leaf is 4 feet in diameter, and it is c ery on the under side. plant at 
Nice, called B. calcarea, is evidently a species of Erythea, as also is the 
palm commonly known as B. Roezlit. 
aria—A small genus of dwarf pinnate-leaved palms from 
A ia. B. monostachya, the walking-stick palm, was seen in the 
gardens of the Acclimation Society at Hyóres. It was placed under 
a large handlight, and looked unhappy. This plant is grown in a cool 
greenhouse in England. 
Ch 
orea —Only one species, viz., C. scandens, was note It 
was at "ut and apparently quite happy, trained up the stem of a Cone 
on a law C. elatior is large and healthy in a cold house at the Jardin 
des Plante Par 
‘Chamerops humilis.—A common garden plant all along the Riviera. 
It fruits very freely, and some of the varieties are excee dingly orna- . 
mental when bearing their enormous collar-like whorl of rich orange 
fruits. In no palm ave I noticed so much variety as in this Chamerops 
In some the peliole is short and stout, in others long and attenuated ; 
some petioles were armed with stout spines, half an inch long, o others 
had short spines, and others were merely serrated. The leaf blade 
showed an equal amount of variation, some plants having stiff board- 
like leaves, others thin and drooping ones. They varied in hue from 
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has been attempted, such names as C. Biroo, C. Ghiesbreghtit, and C. 
tomentosa being given to plants which are merely varieties of C, humilis, 
C. Fortunei (see Trachycarpus). 
Chrysalidocarpus lutescens, generally known as Areca lutescens, has 
been tried out of doors at Nice, but it cannot be established owing to its 
not being able to bear the low winter ctp 
were seen at Hyéres, Nice, and Cannes. I was informed that this 
species is at least as hardy as the Date. The effect of its enormous 
plume-like leaves towering up above most of the other plants in the 
at Cannes was 15 inches in diameter. Under the names C. rome esate. 
C. Yatai, C. Bonneti, and C. australis are plants which apparently 
: are closely related to each other: probably merely sariini PoE one 
