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PALMS, CYCLANTHS AND CYCADS. 
*ENCEPHAXiABTOS VILLOSUS AMPIilATUS, a magnificent giceiiliouse Cycad, imported fi'om 
South Africa. It has a stout cylindrical stem, and grandly arcliing leaves, which are pinnately 
divided ; the pinna; arc lanceolate, distinctly serrate, the teeth being more numerous towards 
the tip of the pinna:. The base of the petiole is thickly clothed with woolly hairs. 
6, 8 and 10 guineas 
* DENTICXTLATTTS 
* (Zamia) VROOMII, one of the noblest of this very noble group of plants ; the leaf segments 
are alternate below, opposite above, 40 to 50 in number on each side of the rachis, which 
latter is marked with a prominent rounded ridge in the centre; they are oblong lanceolate, 
spine-pointed, with a variable number of long spine-pointed teeth at the margins, and of a 
bright shining green colour, rather paler on the under surface 4 and 5 guineas 
EUTERPE EDUIiIS (Oreodoxa Sancona) 5s., 7s. 6d. and 10s. 6il. 
OEONOMA CARUERI, a splendid stove Palm, from the United States of Colombia, of a very 
ornamental character, with strongly ribbed leaves. The petioles of the leaves are without 
spines, flat on the upper, and rounded and asperous on the lower face, with the angles acute. 
The lamina: is pinnately parted, the segments unequal in width, varying frmn about half an 
inch to two and a half inches broad, while the upper part is confluent into a broad bilobed apex. 
It has been named in compliment to one of Mr. \V. B.’s collectors, who discovered and sent 
it to this country 15s. and 1 guinea 
CONCINN A 1 .J and 2 guineas 
QRACIIilS 15s. and 1 guinea 
PRINCBPS 2 and 3 guineas 
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