Chap. III. 



A VALUABLE PALM. 



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garden of His Koyal Highness Prince Albert, at 

 Osborne House, Isle of Wight.* 



For the accompanying sketch of this interesting 

 palm, and for several others in this work, I am 

 indebted to the kindness of Captain Cracroft, B.N., 

 a gentleman whose services in China, when in com- 

 mand of the " Reynard," were highly and justly 

 appreciated by the foreign community. 



[The Hemp Palm.] 



* In the ' Botanical Magazine ' for March, 1850, Sir Wm. Hooker 

 thus writes of it : — " A palm, Chamcerops excelsa, (?) sent to the Royal 

 gardens by Mr. Fortune, has braved, unharmed, and unprotected by 

 any sort of covering, the severe winter now passed" (1849-50). 



