Hand-list of tender momocotyledons, excluding Orchideae, cultivated in the Royal Gardens, Kew

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EOYAL GARDENS, KEW.
-H A N D L I S T
OF
TENDER MONOCOTYLEDONS,
Excluding Orchideae,
CULTIVATED IN
THE ROYAL GARDENS, KEW.
189 7.
LONDON:
SOXiB AT THS ROYAZ. GARDENS, XEVr.
PRINTED FOR HER MAJESTY'S STATIONERY OFFICE
BY EYRE AND SPOTTISWOODE,
PHINTF.KS TO THE OUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY.
1897.
Price Ninepence.PREFACE.
The present Hand List is another instalment of the
complete enumeration of the plants cultivated in
Gardens which it is hopedthe Royal eventually to
accomplish.
contents ofThe scope of the the Hand List, which
heterogeneous, is dictatedare somewhat in greatmeasure
convenience. It includes large groups ofby plants of
great scientific interest which, for various reasons, are
ordinary cultivatorsmore attractive to thanmanywhich
comprised necessarily in a botanicalare collection. For
this reason it is hoped that it may be found not less
useful than its predecessors.
A few words may be said as to the history at Kew
the more important of the groupsof now catalogued.
SCITAMINE^.
An order including Gingers, Arrowroot-plants, and
Musas. It numbers some 450 species, of which 240 are
in cultivation at Kew. Almost all are natives of the
tropics. About 40 species are given in 1813 in the
second edition of Alton's Hortus Kewensis, and 139
by John Smith, curator of the Royal Gardens, 1841-63,
in his privately printed Records Kewof (p. 222) as
"forming the Kew collection between the years 1822
and 1864."
Musa Ensete, one of the most popular representatives
of the family and a conspicuous ornament of the gardens
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j^ 24 PREFACE.
of Southern Europe, was first introduced into cultivation
at Kew. In 1853 Walter Plowden, Esq., H.B.M.
Consul at Massowah, Abyssinia, sent seeds from "which
plants were raised, one of ultimately figuredwhich was
in the Botanical Magazine (tt. 5223, 5224).
Strelitzia Regince, a beautiful plant which almost
certainly preserves an unbroken at Kew, wasdescent
named by Sir Joseph Banks in honour of Queen Char-
lotte, who was a daughter Mecklenburg-of the Duke of
Strelitz, but which, with characteristic modesty, he
allowed the elder intro-Alton to publish. Banks had
duced it to the Royal Gardens in from the Cape1773
of Good Hope.
StrelitziaAugusta was introduced in by Francis1791
Masson, the botanical collector for the Royal Gardens,
where it has been cultivated ever since. It may have
been named in compliment to the Princess Augusta,
George III.mother of
The collection is dispersed according theto habits of
and thethe plants diflferent treatment they require,
the Palm Housebetween (No. I.), the Stove (No. IX.),
the Water Lily House (No. XV.). A few areand
in therepresented Temperate House.
BROMELIACEiE.
The order of which the Pine-apple is a familiar
representative the species are; mostly epiphytal on
trees and exclusively natives of the New World. Ac-
cording to Alton's Hortus Kewensis, 16 species had
been introduced at Kew previous to 1813. In 1864