232 
American, Of the group of Alaineæ nine species are Moss 
The ` 
m 
to South Africa in 1817-23, and a large number of species were 
introduced which were described by Haworth ; few of these have 
probably been lost since that time. The collection was largely 
enriched in 1889 by purchases from the celebrated collection of 
the late John T. Peacock, Esq., of Sudbury House, Hammersmith. 
A selection from his extensive collection of succulents had been 
temporarily exhibited in the South Octagon of the Temperate 
House from 1878-81 (Kew Report, 1818, p. 6). Appendix IT. of 
the Kew Report for 1880 gave a catalogue of the 4 loinece, Y uccoidee’ 
and Agaves cultivated in the Royal Gardens, including those in 
the Peacock collection. It enumerates 296 species. 
Those catalogued in the present Hand List amount to 377. 
One of the most interesting introductions of recent times is the 
great Natal Tree-Aloe (Aloe Bainesii), of which the first plant in 
European gardens was raised from a cutting sent to Kew in 1867 
by Mrs. Barber. It is figured in the Botanical Magazine (t. 6848). 
PALMS. : 
Palms form an order of plants which is conspicuously distinct 
from all others. Their salient characters are indeed familiar at a 
glance. The majority are natives of the Tropics, and therefore in 
Afri 
countries, and to these the gardens of Southern Europe owe much 
of their striking character and beauty. The Kew Bulletin for 1889 
The total number of species actually known to botanists is 
upwards of 1100, but many doubtless still remain to be 
described. 
In 1768 six species were enumerated in Hill’s Hortus Kewensis 
as in cultivation at Kew, In 1787 Aiton in his Hortus Kewensis 
