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DEPARTMENT OF BOTANY. 
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(Phoenix dactylifek-a, L.). By the side of these are two entire 
trunks of the Wax-Palm of the Brazils (Copeenicia ceeifera, Mart.), 
one of them having its upper part rounded and polished, and both 
displaying the remarkable spiral arrangement of the persistent bases 
of the fronds, which in one tends upwards to the right, and in the 
other to the left. A polished longitudinal section of an entire stem, and 
two other smaller sections, exhibit the internal structure of this beautiful 
Palm. Next to the doorway on either side is a longitudinal section, one 
of them polished, of a very tall specimen of Kingia austealts, E. Br., 
and on the left an entire stem, of nearly equal height, with transverse 
sections in a case attached. Adjoining to this on the left is a fine 
specimen of an arborescent Vellozia from the province of Minas 
Geraes in Brazil, and beyond it a portion of the very thick stem of a 
species of Bamboo from Pulo Geun, together with a stem of the Com- 
mon Bamboo (Bambdsa aeundinacea^ Willd.), cultivated at Chats- 
worth, and which attained a height of upwards of forty feet within six 
weeks after its first appearance above ground. A trunk of the Cocoa- 
Nut (Cocos NuciFERA, L.), and a fine longitudinal section of that 
of the Palmeiea-Palm (Boeassus flabellifoemis, L.), with a polished 
cylinder from the upper part of the stem, are also placed at this end 
of the room. 
Pteturning along the Wall-Cases of the southern side, the first Case, 
numbered 10, contains specimens of Conifee^ and CYCADEiE. On 
the back and sides of this case are suspended some remarkable cones ; 
cross-sections of the Wood of Aeaucaeia Cookii, B. Br., from the Isle 
of Pines, one of which exhibits the mode in which the whorl of branches 
is given off; a polished knot of Aeaucaeia excelsa, B. Br., with a 
section of the same ; and a remarkable specimen of Coniferous W^ood, 
forming part of a beam found by Mr. Layard in. the ruins of Nim- 
roud, and having the microscopic structure of the Yew (Taxus bac- 
cata, L.). On the shelves below are placed cones of the different 
species of Aeaucaeia, Dammaea and Pinus; fruit-bearing branches of 
WiDDEiNGTONiA Wallichit, from the Cedarberg, S. Africa; and balls 
of the leaves of the Laegh (P. laeix, L.) felted together by the. 
action of the waves, from the lakes of Cumberland. In the centre, 
at the back of the case, is a model of a female flower-bud of Ence- 
PHALAETOS Caffee, Lelim., and of a fruit-bearing scale of the same. 
On the shelf below are several sections^ transverse and longitudinal, 
of the wood of the same species and of a species of Cycas ; and on 
the right-hand side of the case fronds, and a male and female inflo- 
rescence of Zamia spiralis, Salisb., from New South Wales. 
Case 11 contains, in its lower part, specimens in continuation of 
the family of CoNiFEEiE, the most remarkable of which is a section of 
a large branch of a Cedar-Tree planted in the Garden of the Society 
of Apothecaries at Chelsea in the year 1683, and cut down a few years 
ago, exhibiting 153 concentric annual rings. Above, are numerous 
specimens of remarkable forms and structures belonging to, the family 
of CACTEiE. 
Case 12 is occupied by Miscellaneous Specimens. At the back 
