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extrao. effect. The form of the leaf may be called a combination of 
the Pina and palmate characters. A plant of this rare palm is in the 
Kew collection ; there ud bail a fine example of it in the collection at 
Blenheim. A lar arge specimen was also noted in Baron Vigier’s garden 
at Nice. Mr. Bull distributed plants of. it some years ago under the 
name of Corypha 
cenix.—Of al. pila the cultivated species of Phenix are the 
most difficult to define. There is abundant evidence to show that a 
considerable number are of hybrid origin, or mongrels, bred by accident 
in gardens. In some of the gardens of the Riviera, for instance, there 
unless the pollen is blown or carried by bees, &c. from the male to the 
female plant. Under these circumstances it appears to me next to 
impossible for the progeny of these enltivated palms to be pure. Besides 
this fact there is also that of the cross-breeding among Phonixes 
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, ce had bee 
with pollen from P. tenuis, secl, and pumila, and produced 20,000 
seeds! Several plants bearing see ds which were the result of crossing 
. Scott, Curator of the Royal Botanic Garden, Calcutta, hybridised, 
previous to 1879, several species of Phenix. The names of these plants, 
herefore, are not to be relied upon. I give a list of those noted :— 
P. canariensis ; no doubt of hybrid cia 
P. cycadifolius ; very like P. - estri 
P. dactylifera; the ordinary da 
P. humilis ; certainly not P. humilis of Royle ; probably P. reclinata, 
or a hybri 
nensis ; no doubt P. spinosa of the Cape. 
P. paludosa ; md not zt species, but not uuliko P. reclinata. 
P. reclinata ; not always tru 
P. senega alensis ; identical with what we know as P. reclinata. 
inosa. 
P. sylvestris 
P. Vigieri ; a synonym of P. canariensis. 
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dred, forming a magnificent head 25 feet across. Another specimen, 
about the same size, bore eight huge bunches of fruit, each bunch about 
half a hundredweight ; the fruits, which contained fertile seeds, were 
about as large as sparrow’s eggs; the seed is larger than that of any 
Phoenix known to me. It is said that this Phoenix bears cold better 
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