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It is one of the few if the larg^ palms enumerated in the " Guide to Kew Gardens," as long ago as 1851. 
In 1877 it was figured in the Botanical Magazine, Plate 6,274, where we arc informed that it flowered 
annually at Kow in the spring months for many years. At that date it had outgrown the limits of the 
palm-house and was felled. This was, undoubtedly, the Corypha australis of Brown, the common palm 
of sub-tropical and temperate regions of eastern Australia, found as far south as the Snowy Range in 
Victoria. Nevertheless some botanists had conceived that it was the true Liristona iiie.rmis, and this 
alteration found its way into gardens, but the late Mr. Bcntham rectified the error in his ' ; Flora Austra- 
lieiHis." Yet even he did not seize upon the distinctive characters of the foliage. Both L. inermis and 
L. humilit, with pinnately-palmate leaves, were collected by Brown in the islands of the Gulf of Carpentaria. 
But the most curious fact is to come: About three years ago an exploring party, including Professor 
Baldwin Spencer and Mr. C. French, F.L.S., visited Croajingolong, in the extreme east of Victoria, and in 
about 37 degrees south latitude, where they discovered a palm in some plenty, growing to a height of more 
than 100 feet. This palm was taken by them to be Licistona australis : but from the photographs repro- 
duced in the Victorian " Naturalist," vi, p. 8, the leaves are pinnate rather than palmate, and have even 
more of the pinnate character than L. inermis. This is shown both in young and adult trees, therefore it 
seems uncertain what this palm is that attains such a stature in so rude a climate. It is stated, however, 
that directly the heads of the palms grow out into the open above the general vegetation of the valley, 
the sun's heat seems to scorch the leaves up, and they have a brown, withered appearance. (W. Botting 
Hemsley. in Sipl-ney Mail of 19th March, 1892.) 
[The drawing is not as clear, from the botanical point of view, as it might have 
been, but it is undoubtedly L. australis. J.H.M.] 
Botanical Name. 
Livistona. " I have called it in memory of that noble man Patrick Murray, Baron de Livistone, a 
friend of Balfour, who arranged a botanical garden in his own estate with over a thousand plants, and 
enriched that of Edinborough, which was then founded ; he travelled through the whole of France for 
botanical reasons, when, attacked by fever, lie died. For more facts concerning the most meritorious 
man of his time see Sibald's Memoir of Balfour, p. 69, el. st'.tj." (Robert Brown, Prodromus, p. 124). AustraKt, 
Latin, southern. 
Vernacular Name. It is the "Cabbage Tree" or "Cabbage Palm" of> 
eastern Australia, one or other of the names being almost universally in use. 
Aboriginal Name. " Dtharowal " of the aborigines of the Illawarra, New 
South Wales (Sir William Macarthur) ; " Binkar," of South Queensland; " Kondo," 
or " Konda," of the Rockhampton aborigines. Dr. Roth, in his " North Queensland 
Ethnography," No. 3, gives the following aboriginal names for the tree and its parts : 
Fibre-twine, Leaf-troughs, (Middle) Palmer River, "Alkarint"; hinterland and 
coast of Princess Charlotte Bay, " alki-an " ; hinterland and coast of Princess Charlotte 
Bay, "ararai-ya"; Cooktown, " Karai." (but where it is no longer found); Cape 
Bedford, " do-bi." 
Synonyms. Cortjpha australis R.Br., Prod., 267; L. inermis, Wendl. & Drude, 
I.e., 229 (Bentham). 
Leaves. The following measurements were made by Mr. A. A. Hamilton 
from a specimen in the Botanic Gardens, Sydney : 
Length of petiole or leaf stalk 3 feet ; length from top of leaflet, 3 feet G inches. 
Diameter of leaf, 5 feet. Width of leaflet at base, 1 inch. 
The petioles are armed with powerful recurved spines, like sharks' teeth, which 
render them very formidable! 
