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SELECT PLANTS. 
sap, obtained by ringing the bark at 5 to 15 inches interstices, 
is boiled for an hour before gradual exsiccation, otherwise the 
percha becomes brittle. 5 to 20 catties yielded by one tree. 
Jacaranda mimosifolia, Don. 
Brazil. This tree, with J. Braeiliana and J. obtusifolia (Humboldt), 
furnishes a beautiful and fragrant kind of Palixander or Palis- 
sandre wood, and so do probably some other tropical American 
species. This wood is bluish-red, traversed by blackish veins. J. 
mimosifolia is hardy at Sydney, and thus may perhaps he reared 
with advantage also in the warmer and moister regions of our 
colony. 
Jacksonia cupulifera, Meissner. 
West Australia. It might prove an advantage to disseminate 
this small tree in arid desert regions, as horses and cattle relish 
amazingly the foliage. Several other JacJcsonias share the pastoral 
importance of this congener of theirs. 
Kentia Arfakiana, Beccari. 
In Araucaria forests of New Guinea, up to 6000 feet. A reed-like 
palm. 
Kentia Beccarii, P. v. Mueller. ( Nengella montana, 
Beccari.) 
On the mountains of New Guinea up to 4500 feet. This slender 
palm is only a few feet high, and eligible, like Kentia minor from 
North-east Australia, for domestic decoration. 
Kentia Moluccana, Beccari. 
Ternate, at heights up to 3500 feet. This noble and comparatively 
hardy palm attains a height of 90 feet. 
Kentia monostachya, P. v. Mueller.* (Areca mono- 
stachya , Martius.) , 
Eastern Australia, extending to extra-tropic latitudes. One of the 
best among small palms for table decoration. The stems sought 
for walking sticks. All the Kentias of New Caledonia, as occur- 
ring at the verge of the tropics, will probably endure our clime, 
viz., K. macrocarpa (Vieillard), K. oliviformis (Brogn. and Gris), 
K. gracilis (Brogn. and Gris), K. macrostachya (Pancher), K. 
Pancheri (Brogn. and Gris), the four last belonging, with K. 
Mooreana, to the new genus Clinostigma, as first shown by the 
writer. 
