SELECT PLANTS READILY ELIGIBLE 



whicli were left unnoticed in the course of this compilation. 

 From Dr. Spruce's important essay on the Palms of the 

 Amazon-River may be learnt that, besides other species as 

 yet imperfectly known from the sources of this great river, 

 the following kinds are comparatively hardy; thus they 

 might find places for cultivation or even naturalisation within 

 the limits of our colony: — Geonema undata (Klotzsch), 

 Iriartea deltoidea (R. and P.), Iriartea ventricosa (Mart.), 

 which latter rises in its magnificence to fully 100 feet; 

 Iriartea exorrhiza (Mart.) ; this with the two other Iriarteas 

 ascends the Andes to 5000 feet. — Oenocarpus multicaulis 

 (Spruce) ascends to 4000 feet; from six to ten stems are 

 developed from the same root, each from fifteen to thirty feet 

 high. — Euterpe; of this two species occur in a zone between 

 3000 and 6000 feet. — Phytelephas microcarpa (R. and P.), 

 eastern slope of the Peru Andes, ascending to 3000 feet. — 

 Phytelephas macrocarpa (R. and P.), also on the eastern side 

 of the Andes, up to 4000 feet; it is this superb species, which 

 yields by its seeds part of the vegetable ivory. — Phytelephas 

 aequatorialis (Spruce), on the west slope of the Peruvian 

 Andes, up to 5000 feet; this Palm is one of the grandest 

 objects in the Avhole vegetable creation, its leaves attaining a 

 length of thirty feet ! The stem rises to twenty feet. Palm- 

 ivory is also largely secured from this plant. Though aequi- 

 noctial it lives only in the milder regions of the mountains; 

 therefore in the equable temperature of East Gipps Land it 

 would likely prosper without protective cover. — Carludovica 

 palmata (R. and P.), on the east side of the Andes of Peru 

 and Ecuador, up to 4000 feet; the fan-shaped leaves from 

 cultivated specimens furnish the main material for the best 

 Panama-hats. The illustrious Count de Castelnau saw many 

 Palms on the borders of Paraguay during his great Brazilian 

 expedition. Most of these together with the Palms of 

 Uruguay and the wide Argentine territory would likely 

 prove adapted for acclimation in our latitudes; but hitherto 

 the limited access to those countries has left us largely unac- 

 quainted with its vegetable treasures also in this dii-ection. 

 Von Martins demonstrated already in 1850 the occurrence 

 of the following Palms in extra-tropic South America: — 

 Ceroxylon australe (Mart.), on high mountains in Juan Fer- 

 nandez at 30° south latitude; Jubsea spectabilis (Humb.), in 

 Chili at 40° south latitude; Trithrinax Brasiliana (Mart.), at 

 31° south latitude; Copernicia cerifera (Mart.), at 29° south 

 latitude; Acrocomia Total (Mart.), at 28° south latitude; 

 Cocos australis (Mart.), at 34° south latitude; Cocos Yatai 

 (Mart.), at 32° south latitude; Cocos Romanzoffiana (Cham.), 

 at 28° south latitude; Diplothemium littorale (Mart.) at 30° 



