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“several plants raised from seeds collected in Chili by the 
botanical tenet Thomas Bridges, and — from his agent, 
H. Cumming, in 1843” (Smith, Records, 1). 
Trachy NAAT martiana is represe ented i in the Temperate Hous 
by two fine specimens purchased “at the sale of the callestigiis 
that peser er the Conservatory of the Royal Horticultural 
Society’s Gardens, South Kensington, in 1889. They are supposed 
to have been originally obtained from the garden of the Duke of 
Wellington at Strathfieldsaye.” One is figured in the Bot. Mag. 
(t. 7 — 
Howea belinoreana.—* This palm was discovered by W. Milne, 
botanical collector (1852-9) for Kew on the surveying ship 
er aptain Denham. One plant was received at Kew 
(Smith, “Records, p. 115.) It is peculiar to Lord Howe's island 
and was long grown at Kew under the name of Veitchia canter- 
roris The Kew plant is figured in the Bot. Mag. (t. 7018), 
where it is stated to have been sent from the Sydney Botanical 
Gardens. 
Trachycarpus excelsa is represented by specimens in different 
parts of the grounds. The hisjory of the old specimen near the 
principal entrance (which formerly stood in front of No. I. house 
may be recorded. A native of Chusan cto the — of China, 
itis one of *six plants eceived fr 
Mr. Robert Fortune, a well-known Lb Pin collector ” 
(Smith, Records, p. 116). 
Palms in cultivation are slow in developing the full size of 
their crowns. But when once this stage is achieved the upw ward 
growth of the stem is comparatively rapid. But the see is 
reached when the dome of the Palm House is unable to accom- 
modate their height, and it is then necessary to cut iind down 
and replace them. A great clearance was made from this cause 
in 1876 (Report, p. 4). Perhaps the greatest ornament of the 
alm House which os felled at me date was the stately plant 
of Livistona humilis, pire in the Bot. Mag. (t. 6274). 
According to Smith (Record OP 118), it had been received in 
4 as a germinating seed det in a case from Australia by Allan 
Cunningham. 
SCREW PINES. 
The Pandanacee are an order of trees or shrubs allied 
botanically to Aroids, but differing widely in habit. They are 
all tropical or nearly so, and natives of the African islands and 
those of the Pacific and Indian Oceans. Including Cyclanthacee, 
gome 115 species are inn and of these about half are in culti- 
vation at. Kew, mostly in the Palm House. According to Smith 
Goyal Ge pp. 126-7) in 1864 the number of species grown in the 
al Gardens 
"The doles d been much increased by the plants raised 
from seeds brought from Rodriguez in 1874 by Professor Bayley 
Balfour bim etteched as naturalist to the Transit of Venus 
Expeditio 
Two itid plants which were long perhaps the most striking 
features in the North Wing of the Palm House no longer exist. 
Their prospective removal on account of size was foreshadowed 
