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Hillebrand, who introduced this tine species. Of late it has been 
grown from seeds, and many trees have been planted out, especially 
in Manoa Valley. 
Archcntophoenix elegans Wendl. et Drude 
(Syx. Seaforthia elegaxs R. Br.) 
Archontophoenix elegans is a very stately palm with an unarmed 
ringed trunk and large pinnatisect leaves with reduplicate eroded 
segments. The flowers are polygamo-dioecious, and are borne on 
branched spadices, and are of a green color. The fruit of this 
species is about a third of an inch in diameter but often longer than 
broad. The albumen is strongly ruminate, often to the very center 
of the seed. 
This handsome species is a native of tropical Australia but has 
been in cultivation in nearly all tropical countries. It is one of the 
palms sold by dealers as a house plant, for which it is well adapted 
on account of its elegant habit. 
Several specimens have been planted out in Honolulu and are 
already bearing an abundance of fruit. Archontophoenix alexandrae 
W. et D., a native of Australia, is, however, much more common in 
Honolulu. See Plate XX. 
Dictyosperma album Wendl. et Drude 
(Syn. D. (Areca) Rubra Hort.) Red Palm 
Plate XXI. 
Dictyosperma album, the so-called Areca rubra or Red Palm of the 
horticulturists, is a stately palm with a trunk forty to fifty feet in 
height and a diameter of eight to nine inches, somewhat dilated at 
the base. The pinnate leaves are eight to twelve feet long and have 
an almost round petiole six to eighteen inches in length. The pinnae 
are two to three feet long, two to three inches broad, have one 
prominent medial nerve, and three lateral ones on each side. The 
veins and margins of the pinnae are green or reddish. In its young 
state it has dark green leaves with deep red margins and veins, the 
redness disappearing in the adult plants. The spadix is two feet 
long with quite reflexed branches twenty to thirty inches in length. 
The fruit is ovoid-oblong, pointed, about half an inch long, and 
purplish. 
This is a very variable species, of which several forms are known 
