Ravenea
(named in honour of Louis Ravene, a zealous promoter of horticulture at Berlin). ORD. Palmoe. A monotypic genus. The species is a slender, stove palm, nearly allied to Hyophorbe. For culture, see Areca. R. Hildebrandtii (hildebrandt's).* fl. greenish-white, dioecious, on a simply-branched, stalked, fleshy spadix; calyx cup-shaped, three-lobed; petals three, oblong-lanceolate. l. long-stalked; leaflets lanceolate, very acute, smooth, light green; rachis cylindrical. h. (when mature) 10ft. Comoro Islands, 1878. A graceful, ornamental palm, in habit like some Chamaedoreas. (B. M. 6776; I. H. xxvii. 164.)