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PALMS, CYCLANTHS AND CYCADS. 
•CYCIiANTHUS DISCOLOR, vide page 15. 
CYPHOKBNTIA GRACILIS 
■ MACROCARPA, this remarkable new Caledonian Palm is also known under the names of 
JCentiopsis macrocarpa and Kentia Lindeni. It is a noble plant, of vigorous habit, with a stout 
smooth stem, furnished with bold pinnate leaves which in the young state are ovate in outline 
and spreading, and are supported on stout purplish-red leaf-stalks ; the pinna: or segments of 
the leaves are rather distant and oblong-lanceolate. The ycung leaves are of a deep olive-crimson 
colour, and in this state add very materially to the effectiveness and beauty of the plant, which 
is at other times remarkable for its red petioles and broad leaf segments. 
D.®MONOROPS FISSUS Is. &d. and ICs. 6<f. 
MELANOCH.fflTES Is. M. and 10s. 6d. 
■ ORNATUS 1 and li guinea 
— OXLEYANUS 16s. and 1 guinea 
PALEMBANICDS, vide page 153. 
PERIACANTHUS, this graceful Palm, a native of Java, bears a general resemblance to IJ. 
paUmhanims. It differs, however, in having a greater abundance of spines, which group 
themselves in irregular rings round the petiole, a circumstance which has doubtless suggested 
the name ; it differs also in the young leaves being almost straw-coloured instead of cinnamon- 
coloured 7s. M. and 10s. 6d. 
PLUMOSUS, this graceful Palm is exceedingly handsome, either in a small or large size. Its 
leaves are of a rich dark green, and remarkably plume-like, hence its name. It is unquestiou- 
.ibly one of the most elegant of the Palm family, and being of eompact growth, is admirably 
adapted for vases and table decoration 10s. %d. and 15s. 
DESMONCUS GRANATENSIS, the species of this genus of Palms are peculiarly distinct in their 
appearance, having a p.air of divergent leaflets at the top of the petiole. In the young plants 
of this species the petioles are terete and spineless, except at the top, where they bear a few 
setie, and where are also seated a pair of lanceolate divergent pinnse, nearly two inches broad, 
and of a lively green colour. It has been imported from Colombia. 15s. and 1 guinea 
MAJOR 15s. and 1 guinea 
DICTYOSPERMA (Areca) ALBA 7s. 6rf., lOs. 6(7. and 15s. 
DIOON EDULE 
DIPLOTHEMIUM CAUDESCENS, vide Ceroxylon niveum. 
ELiBIS GUINEENSIS, this is the Oil Palm of Africa lOs. 6(7., 15s. and 1 guinea 
"•ENCEPHALARTOS ALTENSTEINII • 
* BRACHYPHYLLUS 
* CAPFRA .'. 
* (Zamia) CYCADJBFOLIUS 
* FRIDERICI-GUILIELMI, this is a very distinct-looking South African species ; the leaves 
are oblong-obtuse, arching, and conduplicate ; the petiole and rachis are terete, and somewliat 
flattened on the upper surface, destitute of spines but covered with woolly down, the segments 
closely crowded, nearly opposite, linear-oblong, and of glaucous hue. At first sight this 
distinct Cycad would give the impression of being an intermediate species between Dioon edide 
and Cycas revoluta 
* GHELLINCKII (gracilis) 
* HILDBBRANDII, this Cycadaccous plant has been introduced from Eastern Africa. The 
leaves are particularly bold looking, with spiny edges, the stipes being leafy to the base, and 
there clothed with close cob-webby hairs. The leaf-blade is lanceolate, with numerous pairs of 
pinnoe or lobes, the lower pairs diminishing into trifid scales half an inch long ; the larger 
segments arc lanceolate, with distinct marginal and stronger and more crowded terminal teeth, 
there being often as many as six or eight crowded around the ape.x, and five or six distributed 
along each side 
* HORRIDUS 
* MULTIFLEXUS 
* (Zamia) LEHMANNI 
* ( ) GLAUCUS 
* ( ) SPINOSUS 
* ( ) VILLOSUS, a noble greenhouse Cycad, with a .stout trunk or caudex, supporting a 
head of erect pinnate fronds, the .stout rachis of which is densely clothed with cottony wool ; 
the i)inme or segments number from eighty to ninety on each side, and are narrowly elliptic- 
linear. It has been found in, and introduced from, the interior of South Africa, 
