. The Gardeners' Chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. ing description is drawnup from two plants that flowered at Kew, one inJune, and the other in October. 1895. Stem cylin-drical, 3 feet long, above 1 inch in diameter. Leavesfine, crenated towards the apex of the stem; petioledeeply channeled, 6 to 15 inches long ; blade oblongobtuse, 2 to 2J- feet long, 6 to 10 inches broad, thinin texture, bright green above, paler green beneath,cuneate or rather rounded at the unequal short, erect, shortly peduncled; bracts oblong,4 to 6 inches long, cri
. The Gardeners' Chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. ing description is drawnup from two plants that flowered at Kew, one inJune, and the other in October. 1895. Stem cylin-drical, 3 feet long, above 1 inch in diameter. Leavesfine, crenated towards the apex of the stem; petioledeeply channeled, 6 to 15 inches long ; blade oblongobtuse, 2 to 2J- feet long, 6 to 10 inches broad, thinin texture, bright green above, paler green beneath,cuneate or rather rounded at the unequal short, erect, shortly peduncled; bracts oblong,4 to 6 inches long, crimson, with a tinge of flowers in four clusters of three flowers each ;ovary finally 1 inch long. Male flowers also in yellowish, 1J inch long, truncate, and obscurelytoothed at the tip. Petal oblong, obtuse, white,nearly as long as the calyx. Stamens five, pro-truding beyond the reflexed tip of the calyx; antherslinear, £ an inch long. A drawing of it has beenmade by Miss Smith for the Kew collection. J. G,Baker, Herbarium, Kew. [The Oardeneit Chiociclt, Sotmba .. Fig. ipectabilis. in the K1KG OF FCETCGALS GABDKN, LI8BOK. (SIB F, 61?.) 518 THE GJBDENEBS CHBONICLE. [November 2, 1895. JUB^A SPECTABILIS. The Coqaito Nut or Wine Palm of Chili is one ofthe moBt interesting of sub-tropical Palms. It hasa very stout stem which attains a height of from40 to 60 ft., and bears a large spreading head of pin-nate leaves. The fruit is borne in pendent racemeswhich look like gigantic bunches of very large fruit (fig. 89, p. 516) contains a single seedwhich is nearly round, has a hard brown bony shell,and the albumen is white, harder than in the Cocoa-nut and sweet to the taste. The stems contain alarge quantity of saccharine juice, which, whenboiled, becomes a sort of treacle, and is muchesteemed as an article of food, known as Miel dePalma—Palm-honey. A fall-sized trunk yieldsabout ninety gallons of this sap, to obtain whichthe trucks are
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