NEW, RARE AND BEAUTIFUL PLANTS. 
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• PHCENIX RUPICOLA. 
This is one of thf most uxquisitely graceful amongst the smaller Palms, and in elegance takes a similar place 
among Pha.Miict's to wlmt Cocas Wediielliana docs among Cocoes. It is of acaulescent habit, with wide- spreading 
arching pinnate luaves, liroadly l:\ncc-shaped in outline, with long narrow pinna:, the lower of which become 
gradually reduced to spines. The pinna; are channelled at the base, and appear to be attached by the folded 
base which joins on to the winged rachis, the wings being pressed together along the spaces between the pinna; 
and continued into the lamina. Some of the lower pinnas and spines are set on in contiguous pairs. It conies 
from India, and is a most valuable acquisition for collections of ornamental plants, among which it will occupy 
one of the foremost positions. 
