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CHAMiEROPS GRIFFITHII. 
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the Museum possesses was sent there in 1839 by Dr. Wallich. This is the plant 
represented, and which, planted out some twenty years since, in the large temperate 
pavilion, has become one of its most interesting occupants. Its trunk, which is 
naked below, measures about 10 ft. in height, and 6 in. to 8 in. in diameter through¬ 
out its length. It is crowned by a tuft of leaves 15 in number, of a tender green, 
their spreading or ascending petioles, which are 4 ft. to 5 ft. long, being unarmed 
and glabrous, with the exception of those of the youngest leaves, which have the 
edges abundantly furnished with a whitish tomentum. This Chamcerops has not 
Chamterops Griffith!!. 
yet flowered at the Museum. Its graceful figure removes it far from the other 
species cultivated there, namely, C. humilis , Linn.; C. hystrix , Fras.; C. staura- 
cantha , Hort. (which some authors refer to Trithrinax); C. aculeata , Liebm.; 
C. Fortunei , Hook. ; C. excelscr, C. sinensis ; C. Martiana , Wall. To these five 
species one may still add, according to Wendland, C. guyanensis , Lodd. (C . 
cochinchinensis , Hort. Par.). Nevertheless the plant, not yet adult, which is 
cultivated now at the Museum under the name of C. cochinchinensis , seems to 
have too much resemblance to C. humilis , of which it is probably a variety. 
