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PHOENIX roebelenii (Burma), graceful Miniature Date Palm, 
fine leaved WALFN #808 
PILEA cadierei (Indo-China), Watermelon Pilea, fleshy plant 
with vivid-green oblong foliage overlaid with shining silver 
blotches between the sunken veins WAHFM #809 
PILEA inyolucrata (spruceana) (Peru), Panamiga; bushy little 
plant with rounded fleshy quilted and red-brown leaves 
WAHFM #810 
PILEA microphylla (muscosa) (Trop. America), Artillery Plant, 
small fleshy plant with masses of tiny green leaves 
WPLFM #811 
PINGUICULA caudata (Mexico), Orchid Fly Catcher; light 
green sticky leaves, carmine-rose flowers WTOFM #812 
PIPER betle (Bali), small cordate leaves, dark green; used in 
Indonesia for chewing with betel nut WTHFM #813 
PIPER magnificum (Borneo), deep green metallic leaves on 
four-cornered petioles and corky trunk WTHFM #814 
PIPER nigrum (Java), Black Pepper, tropical creeper with ovate 
dark foliage WTHBM #815 
PIPER ornatum (Celebes), slender tropical creeper with waxy 
heart-shaped dark green leaves, silver and pink network 
WAHFM #816 
PLATYCERIUM aethiopicum (Trop. Africa), wedge-shaped 
wavy fertile fronds WTOFM #817 
PLATYCERIUM alcicorne (bifurcatum) (Polynesia), Staghorn 
fern, grayish, durable, sharply cut pendant segments, under- 
side of fertile fronds covered with cottony down, best keeper 
WPOFM #818 
PLATYCERIUM alcicorne majus (Polynesia), thick leathery 
fronds, robust growth WPOFM #819 
PLATYCERIUM grande (Australia), both sterile and barren 
fronds stag-like, pale green WTOFM #820 
PLATYCERIUM hillii (Queensland) , elegant erect green antlers 
WPOFM #821 
PLATYCERIUM lemoinei, long slender pendant fertile fronds, 
gray WPOFM #822 
PLATYCERIUM vassei, short, upright antlers, green 
WTOFM #823 
PLATYCERIUM willincki (Java), narrow fronds, with numerous 
antlers, silver-gray, graceful hanging WTOFM #824 
PLEOMELE gracilis (Australia), short dracaena-like wavy 
leaves, waxy, leathery, dark green; grouped densely around 
slender stem; selfbranching; growing habit reminds of mon- 
key-puzzle tree or Podocarpus; dwarf species WALFN #825 
PLEOMELE reflexa (India), rich green, leathery leaves, narrow 
oblanceolate densely crowded around slender stem; self- 
branching, widely used as decorative pot plant in Southern 
Asia as seen by the writer from India to Malaya 
WALFN #826 
PLEOMELE Song of India, small, densely set leathery leaves 
beautifully marked with two wide golden margins, on self- 
branching slender canes (see page 1) WTHFEN #827 
PLEOMELE thalioides (Ceylon), stiff, fairly large, spear-shaped 
leathery leaves with long gray petiole on straight slender 
stems, bushy WTLEN #828 
PLUMBAGO capensis (So. Africa), flowers azure-blue, small 
oblong leaves; partially climbing WPLBM #829 
PLUMBAGO coccinea (East Indies), carmine red flowers on long 
racemes WPLBD #830 
PLUMERIA acuminata Singapore (Malaya), the sacred Temple 
Tree of India and Buddhist Asia; large waxy flowers, white 
with yellow center, sweetly fragrant, in clusters at the end of 
branches; long blunt leathery leaves glossy-green with light 
midrib WTHFM #831 
PLUMERIA rubra (acuminata) (Mexico, Jamaica), Frangipani 
Tree, large waxy single blossoms salmon-red with tinge of 
yellow, very fragrant, in clusters; latex-like sticky juice; 
pointed dark green leaves, shedding in dry season 
WTHFM #832 
PODOCARPUS macrophylla (Japan), dark green needle tree, 
evergreen; superb keeper CPLBM #833 
POINSETTIA (Euphorbia) pulcherrima (Trop. Mexico) , Christ- 
mas Star, red or white bracts according to variety 
WPLBD # 834 
POLYPODIUM Mandaianum, bluish silver, very graceful fronds, 
yet tough; creeping rhizomes WAHFM #835 
POLYPODIUM subauriculatum knightii (India), graceful long 
hanging fronds when older, durable but slow; for hanging 
baskets WTHSN #836 
POLYSCIAS (Aralia) guilfoylei victoriae (Polynesia), graceful 
lacy white variegated foliage WTLBM #837 
