Vol. 33, No. 1
First Color Issue

Front cover:  Cocos nucifera, the coconut, towers above fruit trees in the village orchards of Kandy, Sri Lanka.  Photo by J. Dransfield

Back cover:  Corypha umbraculifera, in full flower in a village orchard, Kergalle, Sri Lanka.  Photo by J. Dransfield

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Contents for January 1989

Long Term Effects of Gibberellin and Cytokinin on Coconut Trees

Jack B. Fisher and William F. Theobald

Bugs of Lincus spp. Vectors of Marchitex and Hartrot (Oil Palm and Coconut Diseases) on Astrocaryum spp. Amazonian Native Palms

Guy Couturier and Francis Kahn

The Apung Palm:  Traditional Techniques of Sugar Tapping and Alcohol Extraction in Sarawak

F.W. Fong

On the Reproductive Biology of the Dwarf Palm, Chamaerops humilis in Southern Spain

Javier Herrera

Prehistoric Development and Dispersal of the Desert Fan Palm

Bradford F. Hicks

Discovering Palms in Europe

Rolf Kyburz

Water Treatments for Palms

Ralph Velez

Palm Growing in Central Florida

Hershell L. Womble

Vol. 33, No. 2

Front cover:  Carpoxylon macrospermum on Espiritu Santo, Vanuatu.   Photo by J.L. Dowe

Back cover:  Livistona sp. "Cape River" on Coutts' cattle station in "true Australian bush."  Photo by Natalie Uhl.

Contents for April 1989

Cold-Weather Experience in South Florida

Leonard Goldstein

The Unexpected Rediscovery of Carpoxylon macrospermum

John I. Dowe

Carpoxylon macrospermum

John L. Dower and Natalie W. Uhl

Bees and Palms in Peninsular Malaysia

Ruth Kiew and Mohamad Muid

Seed of Trithrinax campestris

Ron Harris

The Dilemma of a Dwindling Resource:  Rattan in Kerinci, Sumatra

Stephen F. Siebert

Attalea crassispatha, an Endemic and Endangered Haitian Palm

Andrew Henderson and Michel Aubry

How Many More Palms?

P.B. Tomlinson

Collecting Endangered Palms in Peninsular Malaysia

Ruth Kiew

Brava for Butia

Tamar Myers

In Appreciation of Iris Bannochie and her Garden "Andromeda"

Lynn McKamey

The IPS Down-Under Report

Greg Cuffe

Vol. 33, No. 3

Front cover:  Clinostigma exorrhiza growing on Taveuni, Fiji.  Photo by John L. Dowe

Back cover:  Rhapis excelsa and R. humilis at the Huntington Botanical Garden.   Photo by Kenneth McKamey. 

Contents for July 1989

Geonoma linearis -- a Rheophytic Palm from Colombia and Ecuador

Gloria Galeano Garces and Flemming Skov

Endangerment of Colombian Palms

Rodrigo Bernal

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Rhapis Palms -- Cultivated Species and Varieties:  Culture and Care of the Ladies

Lynn McKamey

Millions of Alleged Rhapis Seed Sprout into Guihaia argyrata

Lynn McKamey

Demography of Astrocaryum sciophilum, an Understory Palm of French Guiana

Plinio Sist

 

Vol. 33, No. 4

Front cover:  A staminate tree of the recently described Ammandra natalia Balslev & Henderson, a vegetable ivory palm growing in eastern Ecuador.  Photo by A. Henderson

Back cover:  The strange pistillate inflorescence of Ammandra natalia Balslev & Henderson, taken in Ecuador.  Photo by A. Henderson

Contents for October 1989

The Cabbage Palms of Billy's Island

by Kyle E. Brown

Questions and Answers about Lethal Yellowing Disease

F.W. Howard and C.I. Barrant

Species Richness, Density and Distribution of Palms in an Eastern Amazonian Seasonally Flooded Forest

A.O. Scariot, A.T. Oliveira Filho, and E. Lleras

The Rise and Fall of Vegetable Ivory

Anders Barfod

Influence of Temperature on Germination of Sabal causiarum Seed

W.J. Carpenter