Strange Palm Has
p. 77 · Read in the full issue
Link With America
A rare palm, previously known only in the Marquesas Islands 3,000 miles away, was discovered recently at Makira, on San Cristoval, BSIP, by Captain P. F. Drake of the Marine Department, and the Agricultural Field Officer, East ern, Mr. Ted Kenman. The palm is called Pelagodoxa henry an beccari.
Mr. E. J. H. Corner, of the Cambridge University’s Depart ment of Botany, to whom the palm was sent for indification, describes it as a very isolated and curious genus. He says it has a strange affinity with allied species found only in tropical America. Four other species found in the Solomons last year also show this connection with America.