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they furnish a fibre of great strength, similar to that of the 

 Agaves. Moreover all these plants are decorative, and live 

 in the poorest soil, even in drifting coast-sand. They are also 

 not hurt, as is the case with the Fourcroyas, by the frosts 

 of our lowlands. Among the species with stems of several 

 feet in height may be recorded Y. gloriosa (L.) and Y. 

 aloifolia (L.), both from the sandy south coast of North 

 America. • 



Zalacca secunda, Griffith. 



Assam, as far north as 28°. A stemless Palm with large 

 feathery leaves, exquisitely adapted for decorative purposes. 

 Before we finally quit the Asiatic Palms we may yet learn 

 from Yon Martius's great work, how many extra-tropic 

 members of this princely order were known in 1850 already, 

 when that masterly work was concluded. Martins enume- 

 rates as belonging to the boreal extra-tropic zone in Asia : 

 Prom Silhet at 24° north latitude : Calamus erectus, Roxb.; 

 C. extensus, E,oxb.; C. quinquenervius, Koxb.; — from Garo 

 at 26° north latitude : Wallichia caryotoides, Poxb.; Ptycho- 

 sperma gracilis, Miq.; Caryota urens, L.; Calamus leptospadix, 

 Grifi*.; — from Khasya in 26° nortli latitude : Calamus acantho- 

 spathus, Grrfif.; C. macrospathus, Griff'.j Plectocomia 

 Khasyana, Griff.; — from Assam about 27° north latitude : 

 Areca Nagensis, Griff.; A. triandra, Poxb.; Livistona 

 Jenkinsii, Griff.; Daemonorops nutantiflorus. Griff.; D. 

 Jenkiiisii, Griff.; D. Guruba, Mart.; Plectocomia Assamica, 

 Griff.; Calamus tenuis, Poxb.; C. Plagellum, GrifF.; C. 

 Heliotropium, Hamilt.; C. floribundus. Griff.; Phoenix 

 Ouseloyana, Griff.; — from Upper Assam between 28° and 29° 

 north latitude : Caryota obtusa. Griff.; Zalacca secunda, 

 Griff".; Calamus Mishmelensis, Griff.; — from Darjiling at 27° 

 nortli latitude : Wallichia obtusifolia, Griff.; Licuala peltata, 

 Poxb.; Plectocomia Himalaiana, Griff.; Calamus schizo- 

 spathus, Griff*.; — from Nej^al between 28° and 29° north 

 latitude : Chamaerops Martiana, Wall.; — from Guhrval in 30° 

 north latitude : Calamus Poyleanus, Griff.; — from Saharam- 

 poor in 30° north latitude : Borassus flabelliformis, L.; — from 

 Duab in 31° north latitude : Phoenix silvestris, Poxb.; — from 

 Kheree in 30° north latitude : Phoenix humilis, Poyle ; — 

 from Dekan : Bentinckia Coddapanna, Berry ; at an elevation 

 of 4000 feet. 



Miquel mentions as Palms of Japan (entirely extra-tropical): 

 Phapis fiabelliformis, Alton ; P. humilis, Blume ; Cham- 

 aerops excelsa, Thunb.; Livistona Chinensis, Br. and Arenga 

 saccharifera, La Bill, or a species closely allied to that 

 Palm. 



