PARK AND CEMETERY. 
Carden Plants— THeir Geog'raphy-CIV.-Palmales. 
The Juncus, Corypha 
Including- the Junceae, etc., which several system- 
atists ally with the group, there are 12 Tribes, 148 
Genera, and about 1,364 species of these plants. 
With the exception of the warm and cold temper- 
ate rushes, and a very few warm temperate palms, all 
are tropical and sub-tropical. 
The rushes are herbs with regular 6-parted, dull 
colored, generally aphyllanthous flowers, and peculiar 
but near to them are sub-tropical genera such as 
Xanthorrhcea, Kingia, and Prionium, with palm-like 
stems. All are better associated with palms than 
with lilies in a practical way, as otherwise the group 
would be without anything to represent it in cold 
countries. 
The Palms are mostly trees, or bushes with clusters 
of low stems or leaves. A number of the scaly fruit- 
ed Calameae or "palmi-j uncus” are enormously long- 
climbers. The trees have simple but occasionally 
branching stems, varying in height from a few feet up 
to 150 feet or thereabouts. The leaves commonly ap- 
pear clustered at the summits of the stems, but are 
sometimes distributed along them as in Calamus, and 
may be broadly described as of two types, palmate 
and feathered, occasionally entire as in Manicaria sac- 
cifera, or growing in a distichous manner as in 
CEnocarpus distichus. The flowers are mostly green- 
ish. yellowish, or brownish, but sometimes red or 
pearlv white. They are generally produced on more 
■or less drooping, but frequently erect racemes, which 
in some species carry from 100,000 to 200,000 blos- 
soms, individually small, scaly, leathery or fleshy, the 
inner series sometimes sub-petaloid and both in threes. 
The ovaries are free. The mature fruits are nut-like 
with thin or thick fibrous rinds or frequently berry- 
like. They varv greatly in size as in the date and 
cocoanut. No group of plants is of greater use to 
mankind. Several palms are found in the warmer 
United States, but of the exotic species so far proven, 
the Japanese Trachycarpus excelsus withstood the 
hard frosts which penetrated to the Gulf of Mexico 
a few years ago, better than any other. 
Loxococcus rupicola is a monotypic Cingalese palm 
growing to 25 or 35 feet high, and mentioned merely 
because of its deep red flowers. 
Rhopalostylis is the proper name of two elegant 
palms from the Southern Hemisphere. Both have 
been known as Arecas. R. Baueri, a native of Nor- 
folk Island, has ivory white flowers produced stiffly 
and at almost right angles to the stem, and above 
them a very beautiful head of pinnate leaves. R. 
sapida, the New Zealand palm, is looser and less 
elegant. Its flowers are said to be pinkish. 
Dictyosperma in 3 species have also been known as 
Arecas, D. alba is found in the islands of Mauritius, 
and Cocos Alliance. 
Bourbon and the Seychelles. D. aureum is from the 
same regions. They are said to grow rapidly in ex- 
treme South Florida, which would seem to give en- 
couragement to try the Lodoicea in the same frost- 
less regions. If any one does so, however, they had 
best poison the cockroaches. 
Orcodoxa is the “Royal Palm” genus of 6 species. 
They are natives of the West Indies and tropical 
America. O. Regia is a popular avenue palm in those 
OREODOXA REGIA; S. FLORIDA. 
countries-, and famous examples existed in Brazil 
which must now be reaching their life limit. The 
illustration shows this palm growing naturally in 
South Florida, where it is found sparsely on Rogers 
and Little rivers. In its best state it grows to 100 
feet high. O. oleracea is considerably taller, more 
useful, but less popular for ornamental purposes. 
Wettinia is a genus of 3 species, said to be natives 
of the Andes from the U. S. of Colombia to Peru. 
They do not appear to be in cultivation. 
C hama d ore a is in 60 species with quite half of 
them in European gardens. They are slender, often 
rush-leaved, pretty little palms of a character which 
seems to indicate that they are shade lovers. They 
often bear colored spikes of fruit in greenhouses and 
some show a disposition to climb. They are largely 
Mexican and Central American extending south to 
Peru and Brazil. 
