Var. T. pellucens, Kze. 



Rootstock simple, and free- creeping ; rachis flatter ; frond scarcely hairy except on the rachis, 

 substance very pellucid. 



Exceedingly abundant above 2,000ft. alt. in forests, coffee -fields, and half-open places, growing on 

 decaying logs, &c. ; the variety being most common at the higher elevations. 



One of the commonest and best marked species, but variable in most of its features. T. procerum, 

 Fee, is a large variety 1-1$ or 2 ft. 1. quite erect, not at all crisped, very pellucid, and with an upright 

 rootstock. T. plumula, Presl., ascribed by Grisebach to Jamaica, is marked by its dense hairiness, and 

 fronds gradually tapering from the middle downwards to the very short stalk. 

 15. T. hcens, Swartz. 



Stalks l-2in. 1., not margined, tufted from a short erect rootstock. densely clothed with shaggy, 

 reddish, hairs; fronds prostrate $-l£ ft. 1., 1-2 in. br., long-pointed, pellucid, membranous and flaccid, 

 hairy, pinnate, pinntc very numerous spreading, rather curved, the upper close or overlapping, |-lf 

 in. 1., j~§ in. w , at the expanded, free base, tapering to the acute apex, without stalks, cut throughout 

 halfway or more to the ribs into crisped lobes, a line or less deep and wide and overlapping ; veins 

 pinnate in the lobes with 1 or 2 simple branches on each side ; 



sori copious, one to each lobe ; 



involucres fully immersed, expanding from the base upwards, receptacles usually much protruding. 



Not uncommon in forests of the higher slopes above 5,000ft. alt., growing under the shelter of 

 rocks and stumps. A particularly fine and beautiful species, most clearly marked by its reddish, 

 shaggy hairs, and abundant, very fertile, crisped pinnse. — ( To be continued.) 



LIST OF PALMS CULTIVATED IN 



In the following enumeration the genera are 



classed, as in a former Kew Report, under the Tribes 



and Subtribes adopted in the " Genera Plantarum." 



TRIBE I. Arbcwb. 

 Leaves pinnate, leaflets with the sides reflexed be- 

 fore unfolding. Flowers unisexual, often in threes (one 

 female between two males). 



SUBTRIBK I. EUARECKJE. 



Spadix flowering below the leaves ; spathes 2, rarely 

 3. Flowers monoecious, males unsymmetrical with 

 hardly imbricate sepals ; females with imbricate petals. 

 Ovary 1-celled, 1-ovuled. Fruit with terminal stigmas. 

 — Unarmed palms of the old world. 



Genus 1. Areca, Linn. 



1. A. Aliciaj, F. Muell. 



Tropical Australia. 



2. A. Catechu, Linn. '•' Betel nut Palm." 



Tropical Asia and its Islands, cultivated as far 

 north as the Eastern Himalaya. 



3. A. glandiformis, Gisehc. 



Moluccas. 



4. A. triandra. Boxb. 



Bengal and Assam from the foot of the Himalayas 

 to 3urma and the Andaman Islands. 

 Genus II. Pinanga, Blume. 



5. P. Kuhlii, Blume. 

 Java. 



"6. P. ternatensis, Scheff. (Areca gigantca, Hort). 

 Moluccas. 



Genus III. Kentia, Blume. 

 °7. K. costata, Beccari. 

 New Guinea. 

 Genus IV. Hydriastele, Wendl. & Dr. 

 °8. H. Wendlandiana, TT ; . <£• D. ( Kentia Wendlandiana, 

 F. Mucll.) 



Tropical Australia. 



Genus V. Hedyscepk, Wendl. & Dr. 

 *9. H. Canterbury ana, W. & D. " Umbrella Palm." 

 (Kentia Canterburyana, F. Muell.) 

 Lord Howe's Island. 

 Genus VI. Akcuontophosnix, Wendl. & Dr. 

 10. A. Cunninghamiana, W.&D. (Seaforthia elegans, 

 Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 4961, excl. figs. 9-11 ; Ptijchosperma 

 Cunninghamiana, Wendl.) 



Queensland and N. S. Wales. 

 •11. A. Alexandra?, W. <£• D. (Ptijchosperma Alexan- 

 dra}, F. Muell.) 



Queensland. 

 Genus VII. Rhopalostylis, Wendl. & Dr. 



THE BOTANIC GARDENS, JAMAICA. 



•12. R. Baueri, I!'. <(D. ( Areca Baueri, Hook f' 

 Bot. Mag. t. 5735.) 



Norfolk Island. 

 . Genus VIII. Dictyospkrma, Wendl. & Dr. 

 •18. D. aureum, W. & D. (Areca aurea, Hort) 



Rodriguez Island (Mauritius group). 



14. D. album, W. & D. (Areca alba, Bory. A. borbo- 

 nica, Hort.) 



Mauritius and Bourbon. 



15. D. rubrum, W. <£ D. (Areca rubra, Hort.) 



Mauritius. 



SUUTRIBK II. PtY'CHOSP KRME.35. 



Characters oiEuarecew, but male flowerssymmetrical 

 with broad rounded widely imbricate sepals. — Unarmed 

 palms of the old world. 



Genus IX Ptychospkhma, Labill. 

 •16. P. gracilis, Lab. 



New Ireland. 

 °17. P. Macarthurii, Wendl. (Kentia Macarthurii 

 Hort.) 



Tropical Australia? « 

 °i8. P. Seemanni, Wendl. 



Fiji Islands 

 °19. P. laevigata. 



SUBTRIBE III. ONCOSPERME.ffi. 



Spadix floweringbelow the leaves; spathes2. Flowers 

 monoecious; males not symmetrical, with broad or small 

 sepals, females with imbricate petals. Ovary 1-celled 

 1-ovuled. Fruit with excentric lateral or basal s\i<r. 

 mas. — Old and new world palms, often spinous. 

 Genus X On oosperm a, Blume. 

 °20. O. fasciculatum, Thwaites. 

 Ceylon. 



Genus XI. Euterpe, GcBrtn. 

 •21.. E. edulis, Mart. "Assai Palm." 



Tropical America. 

 •28 E. oleracea, Mart. " Mountain Cabbage Palm." 

 ( Areca oleracea, Hoit.) 

 Tropical America. 



Genus XII. Oreodoxa, Willd. 

 °23. O. oleracea, Mart. " Cabbage Palm." 

 West Indies. 

 21. O. regia, KuntJi. " Royal Palm." 

 West Indies. 



SUBTRIBE IV. LlNOSPADICEiE. 



Spa fix unbrancned, flowering amongst the leaves - 

 spathes 1 or 2. Flowers monoecious ; males symmetrical 

 with broad imbricating sepals ; females with imbricating 

 petals. Ovary 1-celled, 1-ovuled. Fruit with the stigmas 

 terminal. — Unarmed palms of the old world. 



The Palms marked thus (*) are not for distribution. 



