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Rolrz, Ra.ur,rno. Flora Illustrada Cata- catechu L.) are important Plantation rinense. Parte I. Palmeiras. IB9 pp., crops in . "Barbosa 67 Iigs., 12 maps. HerbSrio Rodrigues," Itajai, Santa Catarina, Pnocsupri\cs oF THE Frnsr Na.rronar, Brasil. 30 August 1974. Svuposrulr oN PLANTATToNCRoPS, Drcsr,rsnn B-9, 1972, TnIvaNlnuilt, o{ all of the eight Treatments Kpnq.LA..Journal of Plantation Crops genera-Trithrinax, Butia, Bac' native Volume I (Supplement).1973 ll974l. EuterPe, Attalea, tris, Astrocaryum, Available from The Secretary,Indian augmented Geonoma, Arecastrum-are Society for Plantation Crops, Central the principal cultivated by accounts o{ Plantation Crops Research Institute, of 25 genera and 35 palms to a total Kasaragod 670 I24, Kerala, India' illustrations ac- species. Photographic $20.00. company the text which is in Portu- guese. Keys to species,ample descrip- Seven sessions of this sYmPosium tions, data on times of flowering and were devoted to genetics and fruiting, common names, ecological ob- breeding, agronomy and soil science, plant servations (bv Roberto M. Klein), physiology and biochemistry. distribution, and uses are given for the pathology, entomology,technology, and native palms, and cultivated palms are a panel discussion. Seventeenarticles nearly as completelytreated' or abstracts of papers presented relate directly to the coconut and arecanut. JounN.tr-oF PLANTATIoNCRoPS. Pub- H. E. Moons. Jn. lished by The Indian SocietY {or Plantation Crops, Central Plantation Crops Research Institute, Kasaragod WHAT'S IN A NAME India. $10.00' 670I24,5erala, Phoenix ({6e nix) (f.) is a Latin ". (date This is a new journal intended . transcription o{ the Greek phoinix in for speedy publication of original arti- palm, palm) and thus is feminine gender cles and invited reviews on all aspects gender, unlike the masculine of of all plantation crops including spices Phoenix when used {or a fabulous bird and condiments." Each volume will or for a companion of Ac[.illes in Greek in consist of about I25 pagesin two num' legend. The name has been used be on agronomy, combination with other words, probably bers. Articles may "palm," genetics and breeding, diseases and in the sense of in the {ollowing pests, processing and marketing. The generic names which are also feminine (see Prin' first issue, published in L973, contains in gender: explanation), two articles on Palms: a studY o{ so- cipes 12: I42' 1968 for (see 3: I43, matic chromosomecomplements of tall Archontophoenix Principes and dwarf coconuts (Cocos nucileraL') 1959 for explanation) , Beccariophoenix, Chwn' and its bearing on intervarietal varia- , Chamaephoenix, tion and evolution in coconutsbv T. G. iophoenix, Cyphophoenix, Engleropho- enix, Raveendranathand C' A. Ninan; and a enl x, P h oe nic opho riwm, P seud' opho study of control of the red palm weevil Rehd,erophoenix, Tessmanniophoenix, on coconut bv P. V. Subba Rao, T. R. T oxophoen i x, l/ itiph oenix. (bek ee o {6e Subramanian,and E' V. Abraham' It is Beccariophoenix 5re likely that more articles will {ollow nix) combines with phoenix the name since coconuts and arecanuts (Areca of Odoardo Beecari (1843-1920), an 197s1 WHAT'SIN A NAME? IlD

Italian botanist and one of the great by himself. Today the name is treated palms. studentsof Beccari spent several as a synonym of Maximiliana which years in the Old World tropics and later has been conserved by international worked on palms for many years at action. Florence. His monographs of lepido- Phoenicophorium (t6e nik o fof ee palms caryoid in particular are excep- um) (n.) combines phoenix with the tionally useful becauseof their excellent Greek phorios (stolen), hence stolen descriptions and photographic illustra- palm or, as sometirnesput in English, tions. A biographical (in note Italian) thief palry. The story was told by J. appearedin Webbia 5: 295_348.Ig2ll. Smith, once Curator of the Royal Gar- Brassiophoenir (br5ss ee o f6e nix) dens at Kew, who is quoted in Curtis,s honorsthe late LeonardJ. Brass (1900- Botanical Magazine II9:, plate 7277, "In 1971) whose exceptional collections of 1893, as follows: IB57 Mr. IVend- palms in New Guinea and the Solo- land, Director of the Royal Gardens mon Islands provided the materials Herrenhausen, Hanover. visited Kew. which served for the description of and lras anxiousto obtain a plant of this numerous species. An appreciation of rare palm; I had marked one of the Dr. photograph Brass with appearedin for him and on taking him to Journal ol the Arnold, Arboretum 52: the nursery pits to show it to him. it 695-698, r97L. was not to be found. This led to a Chamaephoenix (krim ee f6e nix) strict inquiry, and it was found that it comes from the Greek chamai which had been stolen "on by a German gardener means the ground," thus dwarf or then employed in the gardens, and it low-growing, combined with phoenix to afterwards appeared in a private garden give dwarf palm or dwarf . in Berlin; and some years afterward The name is a synonym for Pseud,o- I heard that it had grown to be a fine phoenix. plant." Although in the past this name Chuniophoeni* (chin ee o {6e nix) was considered inappropriate, it has honors W. Y. Chun who was Director priority and must be accepted under of the Botanical Institute, College of the International Code of Botanical Agriculture, Sun Yatsen Universitv. Nomenclature. It was Wendland. him- Canton, about 1932 when B,r.r"i self, who quite understandablycoined described the . the name published in 1865." Because Cyphophoenix (sy foe f6e nix) was of the ending, this name is neuter in not explained but is taken from the gender. Greek (bent, kyphos humped, hunch- Pseud,ophoenix(.sie doe f6e nix) or backed) phoenix. and Possibly the false date palm, usually known as , prominent which has a terminal cherry palm in English becauseof the stigmatic residue, accounts for the red, cherrylike , combines the name. Greek pseuilo (false, or resembling but Englerophoenix (6ng ler o {6e nix) not equalling) with phoenix. usesthe name of Heinrich GustavAdolf Rehd,erophoenix(rly der o f6e nix) (f8441-1930) Engler in combination commemoratesAlfred Rehder (fg63- with phoenix. Engler was a German 1949) who was for many years as- botanist who initiated and edited a sociated with the Arnold Arboretum series of ambitious botanical works and who was the author of a Manual plants dealing with on a world basis ol Cuhiaated, Trees and, Shrubs amons and following a system largely devised other works. tVol. 19 II4 PRINCIPES grown suc- Tessrnanniophoenix(t6ss man ee o f6e plant them; they have all nix) honors Giinter Tessmann(1884-) , cessfully since. which a German descriptive anthropologist now I collected quite a lot of really living in Brazil, who studied and wrote had {allen very recently so it was seed about peoples of West (Die fresh. Having seenhow some older just pressed Pangwe,1913) and of easternPera (Die had germinated after being planted in Indianer nord,ost-Peru.s,1930). In Peru, into the moist soil, I my seed re- he collected specimensthat served as the moist sand in .a shadehouse,first basis for a new genus which is now con- moving the very attractive outer shell. 12 sidered a synonym of Chelyocarpus,as The se-edstayed like this for about is also Tessmanniodor{a (t6ss man ee o months when I came to the conclusion d6x a). The last combined Tessmann's that there was not enough heat for the name with the Greek d'oxa (glorv) , thts seed to germinate, so I filled a shallow glory of Tessmann. box with sand and just pressedthe seed Toxophoenix (t6x o f6e nix), now into it. I then covered the box with a put consideredmerely a synonym of Astro- sheet of clear polythene and it in a caryutn) was given its name by Schott sunny place where it stayed for another because indigenous peoples of Brazil year and still none germinated. I was made their bows from the wood of the getting tired o{ seeing them lYing put them r)a\m) toxon being the Greek word for around. so I took all the seed, bow. in a black polythene bag, Poured in a Vitiphoenix (v6e tee {6e nix), now a liltle water, tied the top, and put it in a synonym oI Teitchia, is taken from Viti glass-roofed propagating house. The Levu, largest o{ the Fiji Islands, and temperature in the house gets quite phoenix, thus a Palm of Viti Levu. high so in the polythene bag it must Chelyocarpu.s (ch6l ee o c6r Puss) have been really hot, I00"F. or more. (m.) was so named bY Dammer because A{ter about six months, I looked into the sur{ace df the fruit of the specieshe the bag and was amazedto see some of knew is checked,much like the carapace the seed growing. continued to of a turtle. Chelysis the Greek word for germinate until now about 75 percent tortoise or turtle, carpus a Latin adapta- have grown. I leave them in the poly- tion of the Greek carqos (fruit) or thene bag until roots are formed, then -carpws,a suffix meaning -fruited; the plant them into individflal polythene two together might be translated as bags. I wonder why theY took so long "turtle-fruited." to grow? H. E. Moone. Jn. I. S. TunNsn SPringsFarm P. O. Box 2162 NOTESON CUTTURE SalisburY, Rhodesia In August, L97L, I was in the north of Mozambique looking for cycads and From John Brudy in Cocoa Beach, other interesting plants' I knew of a Florida comesthe following: place where Raphia larinilera palms In March 1970, when at the botanical were growing, so I visited the location garden in Bogor, I collected and to collect some seed and a few seedling Java, 18 seeds of Socratea plants. The seedlings,about 18 inches shipped home identified bv A. Dilmv in high, lasted bare-root in damp news- dwrissima, at the paper for six days before I was able to whose personal company I was