Archive image from page 50 of Descriptive and illustrated catalogue and. Descriptive and illustrated catalogue and manual / Royal Palm Nurseries . descriptiveillus1893roya Year: 1892 Palms and Cycads. 45 LATANIA l;OKIOMCA llll'lil UIIU l/U-nSls). ENCEPHALAETOS villosus. 'This is a very handsome plant. The petioles and scales of the stem are clothed with a dense tomentum. Both sides of leaves bright green.' (Above descriptions of Encephalartos are from B. S. Williams 'Choice Stove and Green)muse Pio»(s.') We have grown the last-named plant for tvyo years, and think much of it. Large and vye
Archive image from page 50 of Descriptive and illustrated catalogue and. Descriptive and illustrated catalogue and manual / Royal Palm Nurseries . descriptiveillus1893roya Year: 1892 Palms and Cycads. 45 LATANIA l;OKIOMCA llll'lil UIIU l/U-nSls). ENCEPHALAETOS villosus. 'This is a very handsome plant. The petioles and scales of the stem are clothed with a dense tomentum. Both sides of leaves bright green.' (Above descriptions of Encephalartos are from B. S. Williams 'Choice Stove and Green)muse Pio»(s.') We have grown the last-named plant for tvyo years, and think much of it. Large and vyell formed specimens, each; small, healthy plants one year old, $3 each. GEONOMA vaga (1) The Pk aja, a dvarf Palm of Central America, attaining a height of about ten feet. Very graceful. each. GtJILIELIIA speciosa. South America. The or Peach Palm of the Amazon. 'This most picturesque and elegant Palm has a slender, cylindrical stem, thickly set with long needle-shaped spines, disposed in rings or bands. It reaches a height of sixty feet, and grows quite erect, though in exposed sitnations it becomes curved and waving. The leaves are numerous, terminal, pin- nate and drooping, forming a nearly spherical crown to the stem. And the leaflets, growing out of the midrib in various directions, and being themselves curled and waved, give the the whole mass of foliage a singularly plumy appearance. The fruit is the size of an apricot, of a triangular oval shape, and tine reddish- yellow color.'—Wallace. The fruit is edible, and in most cases is simply a farinaceous mass without seed—a mark of long cultivation. SlOeach. HYOPHORBE. 'The palms comprising this genus are all massive and elegant objects, well de- serving cultivation. They are frequently grown underthenameAreca.'— Williamg. H. amaricanlis. S3 each. H. VerchafiFeltii. each. HYPHaiNE Natalensis. The rarest Palm (or indeed any plant) in our collection. There has never been known but one spec
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