The Illustrated Dictionary of Gardening

Every genus a Victorian gardener could grow — Abelia to Zygopetalum across four volumes, with each plant's history, species, and culture, by the Curator of Kew.

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Pseudophoenix

(from pseudos, false, and Phoenix; alluding to the resemblance in general aspect to the kindred genus Phoenix). ORD. Palmae. A monotypic genus. The species is a stove Palm, requiring similar culture to Phoenix (which see, on pp. 103-4, Vol. III.).

P. Sargenti (Sargent's). fl., spadix panicled, about 3ft. long and broad. fr. bright orange or red, 3/4in. in diameter. l. pinnate, 4 1/2ft. long; leaflets lanceolate, acuminate, 1ft. to 1 1/4ft. long, glaucous beneath. h. 25ft. Florida, 1887. (G. C. ser. iii., vol. iv., p. 409; G. & F., vol. i., 1888, pp. 353, 355.)

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