APPENDIX. 
Consisting of such plants, which though capable of being 
arranged in the several classes of the system, yet on account 
of their singular structure, Linnaeus hath rather chose to place 
apart in an appendix, under the head of palm^e, containing 
such genera as have a spadix and spatha, (i. e.) whose flowers 
and fruit are produced on that particular receptacle or seat, 
called a spadix, protruded from a common calyx in form of 
a sheath, called spatha ; and consists of trees, and shrubs 
only.—These terms were originally only applied to palms, but 
now are applied to narcissus, snowdrop, orchis, &c. 
PALMiE.* 
(PALMS SPASTHED, THREE-PETALEB.) 
|N° of Species in 
M® Genera. Growth, species. Native of Britain, 
1 st. Fan-leaved, (two houses.} 
Dr up®. 
1 Borassusf s 1 Malabar 
$ Chamseropsf s 2 Spain 
* Palms have always a simple stem, not branched, bearing leaves at the top, 
resembling those of fern, being a composition of a leaf and a branch, or where the 
leaves are confounded with the stem and branches, called frondes; and the corolla 
hath always three petals, or three deep divisions. 
It is remarkable that if the male'flowers of the palm are got at a proper time and 
dried, the pollen will be prolific if kept a year .or upwards^ and the same hath been 
observed of the male pistacia. 
f The leaves of the Borassus fialelliformis (Malabar palm, or Palmira), and of 
another palm called tallipat or talpot. (licuala spinosa), are used on'the .coast of 
Asia and in Ceylon instead of paper. They require no other preparation than merely 
to be separated, and cut even with a knife, and are written upon, while fresh, with 
a sharp steel or stylus. The characters are afterwards rubbed over with Charcoal, 
or some other black substance, which gives them the distinctness of an engraving. 
The same leaves are also used for umbrellas; and one of the licuala is said to be 
generally large enough to shelter six persons from the rain. Thunberg’s Travels. 
1 Of the palmetto there are two species 5 first, the chamcerops humilis (the 
dwarf palmetto), which gave rise to tire name ; the second is the palmetto royal, 
which will rise to 50, 60, or sometimes to 100 feet, which Linnseus Calls chamce - 
Tops excelsa • 
