Ceroxylon
(from keros, wax, and xylon, wood; the trunk is coated with wax). ORD. Palmoe. A very handsome greenhouse Palm, for sub-tropical gardening perhaps unequalled, if placed in a sheltered situation, away from the direct rays of the sun. It thrives in a compost of loam and peat in equal parts. Increased by imported seeds.
C. andicola (Andes).* fl. sometimes perfect, at others unisexular; sepals and petals three-parted; spathe entire, quite covering the flower-spike. l. pinnate, 2ft. to 12ft. in length; petioles erect, somewhat ferruginous at the base, slightly arching at the apex; pinnae acuminate, 2ft. in length, 1 1/2in. in breadth, patent; upper side full, deep shining green; lower side silvery-white. h. 50ft. New Grenada, 1845.