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JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
Pandanus utilis , Bory, about 48 years old ; 4 m. 50 cm. high 
and 75 cm. in circumference. 
Ficus scandens, which covers an entire house, and through a 
door enters another one, covering a wall 9 m. high. 
Livistona australis , 70 years old ; 2 m. 65 cm. high by 
70 cm. in circumference. 
Draccena Draco, 98 years old and 5 m. high. 
Porlieria hygrometra, about 78 years old and 2 m. 80 cm. 
high. 
For the students a lecture room, capable of seating 200 
persons, was constructed in 1842 ; and the illustrations for these 
lectures are contained in the numerous herbaria, distributed 
as follows:— 
Erbario Generale, begun at the beginning of this century : it 
contains about 21,000 species in about 60,000 specimens. 
Erbario della Flora Dalmatica, 2,500 species in 10,000 
specimens. 
Erbario Crittogamico, contains collections of Holl, Schmidt 
and Kunze, Mougeot and Nestler, Ravenel and Rabenhorst. 
Books and periodicals are also well provided, the library 
containing, amongst others, 164 works on botany, mostly used for 
the identification and nomenclature of plants ; 8,000 volumes on 
general botanical subjects ; 40 different periodicals ; and other 
works like Flora Grceca, Flora Danica, all the iconographical 
works of Reichenbach and Jacquin, Flora Fluminensis, Tenore’s 
Flora Neapolitana, English botanical works, a complete series of 
the Botanical Magazine , Bulliard’s Champignons , Martius’ 
Palmce et Planted Brasilienses, the iconographical works of 
Cupani, Duhamel, Host, Hill, Weinmann, Gallesio, Berlese, 
Blackwell, Salm-Dyck, Delessert, Waldstein and Kitaibel, the 
majority of the Botanici Veteres, a complete series of Linnaeus’ 
editions, and, above all, the very rare edition of the Herbarium 
Apuleji Platonici (Rome, 1479),* the oldest illustrated work on 
botany. 
There are also a large number of botanical manuscripts by 
such writers as Prospero Alpino, Malpighi, Gabrieli, Cesalpino, 
Ceni, Pontedera, Haller, Spallanzani, Linnaeus, Brocchi, Cavanilles 
Delile, Endlicher, Fee, Jacquin, Martius, Mirbel, Sternberg, 
Treviranus, Willdenow, &c. 
* Pritzel gives the date as 1493, and the name of the author as Pseudo 
Apuleius. 
