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PALMS, CYCLANTHS AND CYCADS. 
MAETINEZIA EROSA 2 and 3 guineas 
GEANATENSIS, a desirable new dwarf Palm, from Colombia ; the leaves are of roundish 
oblong or roundisli ovate outline, entire at the base, bifid at the apex, and evenly toothed along 
the edges, the young leaf-stalks being slightly mealy. Both the petioles and the rachis are 
armed with dark brown needle-shaped spines, varying from half an inch to an inch in length, 
and which are either spreading or dellcxed 10s. dd. and 16s. 
MAXIMILIANA REGIA 7s. 6d. and 10s. dd. 
*MOLINIA CHILENSIS, vide Jubma speotabilis 
CRANIA MACROCLADA lOs. dd. 
OREODOXA GEANATENSIS, a very ornamental pinnate-leaved Palm, introduced by one of my 
collectors from the United States of Colombia. The stem is smooth, and the leaf pinnate, 
with long narrow leaflets, which are more or less drooping. It is a very elegant plant, and in 
the young state is admirably ad.apted for table decoration 1 guinea. 
REGIA 5s. and 7s. dd. 
S ANCON A, vide Euterpe edulis. 
PHCENICOPHORIUM SECHBLLARUM (Stevensonia grandlfolla)... IJ, 2 and 3 guineas. 
•PHCENIX ACAULIS 10s. dd. 
* DACTYLIFERA (the Date Palm) 10s. dd., 15s. and 1 guinea. 
♦ RECLINATA 6s., 7s. 6d., 10s. dd.k 15s. 
RUPICOLA, this is one of the most exquisitely giaceful amongst the smaller Palms, and in 
elegance takes a simihir place among Pheeuiees to that of Cocos Weddelliana, among Cocoses. 
It is of acaulesceut habit, with wide spreading arching pinnate loaves, broadly lanoo-shapod in 
outline, with long narrow pinmc, the lower of which become gradually reduced to spines. It 
comes from India, and is a most valuable acquisition for collections of ornamental plants. 
3s. 6c?. and 5s. 
SENEGALBNSIS 6s. and 7s. dd. 
* SYLVESTRIS, a Sugar-yielding Palm 15s. and 1 guinea. 
PHYTBLBPHAS MACROCARPA, this Palm yields the Vegetable Ivory of commerce. 
1 and 11 guinea. 
*PRITCHARDIA AGRBA 2 and 3 guineas. 
— PILIFERA, vide Brahia fUamentosa. 
GRANDIS, vide page 19. 
PACIFICA 1 guinea. 
PTYCHOSPERMA ALEXANDR.2E 7s. dd. and 10s. dd. 
* CUNNINGHAMII, this plant is usually cultivated under the erroneous name of Sca/orthia clcgclns, 
A most useful conservatory or cool greenhouse plant, as it will stand a low temperature with 
impunity, and possesses a highly decorative character ; scarcely anything can equal the efiect of 
a large plant of this noble Palm. All sizes, from 3s. dd., 5s. and 7s. dd. to I, 14 and 2 guineas. 
lAEVIGATA "is. dd. and 10s. dd. 
RUPICOLA 15s. and 1 guinea 
SEBMANNI Ij guinea 
RBGELIA PRINCEPS, vide Verschaffeltia splendida. 
•RHAPIS FLABELLIFORMIS 10s. dd., 15s. and 1 guinea 
SABAL ADANSONI 3s. 6c?. and 5s. 
CCBRULBSCENS, tins is described by the collector as a remarkably bold and handsome 
Palm. It has been sent from the United States of Colombia, but is only known here in a 
young state. These young plants have the leaves of an elongate linear-lanceolate form, with a 
plicate surface, and a bluish or glaucous tinge of green, which is very strongly marked on the 
under surface 15s. and 1 guinea 
* (Trithrinax) MADRITI.ffiPOBMIS 15s. and 1 guinea 
UMBRACULIFBRA (Blackburniana), noble and very distinct ... 3s. 6c?. and 5s. 
•SBAFORTHIA ELBGANS, vide Ptychospenna Cunninghamii. 
* ROBUSTA, vide Areca Bauerl. 
STANGERIA PARADOXA small plants, 10s. 6c?. ; strong specimen.s, 14, 2 and 3 guineas 
STEVENSONIA GRANDIFOLIA, vide Phcsnlcophorlum sechellarum. 
THRINAX BARBADENSI8, this is a veiy elegant and neat-growing Fan Palm. Tlie petiole 
terminates in a digitately multipartite blade, the numerous segments of whieh are of a stoutish 
texture, three-nerved, and of a lively green colour. It is, as its name implies, a native of the 
Island of Barbados. This was one of the twelve New Plants with which Mr. W. B. gained 
the Fir-st Prize at the International Horticultural Exhibition held at Ghent in 1878. 1 guinea 
