Loxococcus
(from loxos, oblique, and kokkos, a berry; fruit oblique). ORD. Palmae. A monotypic genus, the species being an elegant stove Palm, which flowered, for the first time in England, at Kew, in the spring of 1878. For culture, see Areca.
L. rupicola (rock-loving).* fl. and spathe blood-red; inflorescence produced from the upper part of the stem beneath the leaves. l. pinnate, spreading, 5ft. to 6ft. long, 3ft. to 4ft. broad; petioles 1 1/2ft. long, with a green, smooth, shortly amplexicaul base; pinnules from twelve to twenty pairs, spreading, and somewhat recurved. h. 30ft. to 40ft. Ceylon, 1878. SYN. Ptychosperma rupicola. (B. M. 6358.)