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specimens to compare it with. Those you sent were very good, but we 
had to boil the fronds to get them made into Herbarium specimens. 
The fa6t is that no one can do palms well except in their native 
country. The best drawings are fragmentary, and to get good speci- 
mens such as those you sent, is a very rare thing. 
I hope you will get type specimens for your garden, from the 
W. India Islands, of Euterpe, Oreodoxa and (Enocarpus, which are I 
fear hopelessly mixed up in Herbaria and books. Good drawings from 
nature of these palms with flower and fruit, would be great help. 
No. 2,058 — Oreodoxa olevacea — is the common cab- 
bage palm that abounds in Georgetown, and generally on 
the banks of the estuaries of our rivers and on the coast 
lands. The other, no. 2,057, 1S a rare species, of which 
only a few specimens are in Georgetown, where alone it 
is known in this colony. Mr. JENMAN recognises a third 
species in town, which has not yet been examined 
botanically owing to his inability to obtain flowering 
specimens, so unapproachable, through the great size of 
the stems, are their lofty heads. 
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