Vol. 42, No. 1

Front cover:  Trachycarpus latisectus

Back cover:  Pigafetta filaris, near Manokwari, Irian Jaya

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Contents for January 1998

Seed Dispersal and Predation of the Palm Acrocomia aculeata

Aldieir Scariot

Hyophorbe amaricaulis in Cuba?

Rolf Kyburz

Phoenix acaulis

Shri Dhar

Hybridization - Butia x Syagrus

Merrill Wilcox as told to Don Tollefson

The growth form of Phytelephas seemannii - a potentially immortal solitary palm

Rodrigo Bernal

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Trachycarpus latisectus - The Windamere Palm

Martin Gibbons and Tobias W. Spanner

A Revision of Kentiopsis, A Genus Endemic to New Caledonia

Jean-Christophe Pintaud and Donald R. Hodel

Pigafetta

John Dransfield

 

Vol. 42, No. 2

Front cover:  The bottom of Valley Gran Rey (La Gomera, Canary Islands); Phoenix canariensis emerge from a sea of reeds (Arundo donax).  Photo by Carlos Simon.

Back cover:  Blue tanagers (Thraupis aepiscopus) are among the most frequent visitors to the ripe infructescences of Aiphanes aculeata, as in this picture, taken in Medellin, Colombia.

Contents for April 1998

Palms of the Reserva Natural del Bosque Mbaracayu, Paraguay (Mbaracayu Natural Forest Reserve)

Belen Jimenez and sandra Knapp

Control of Royal Palm Bug with imidacloprid

F.W. Howard and Allan Stopek

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Phoenix canariensis in the wild

Carlo Morici

Notes on Geonoma in Mesoamerica

Greg de Nevers and Michael H. grayum

Effects of Ecosane on palm growth

David H. Romney

Ecosane and the growth of containerized palms

Howard Waddell

Notes on recent palm species and records from Peninsular Thailand

Lim Chong Keat

 

Vol. 42, No. 3

Front cover:  Nikau palms on Chatham Island, New Zealand.  Photo by Dick Endt.

Back cover:  Tectiphiala ferox. 
Photo by Carl E. Lewis

Contents for July 1998

Palms and Amerindian Fishing in Amazonas State, Venezuela

Francisco J. Guanchez and Gustavo A. Romero

A Note on Indigenous Uses of Dypsis decaryi in Southern Madagascar

Wendy Walker and Laurence J. Dorr

Palm Resources at the Centre for Economic Botany at The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

Sasha C. Barrow

The Chatham Islands:  Home of the Most Southern Naturally Occurring Palm in The World, Rhopalostylis "Chatham"

Dick Endt

Three New Species of Burretiokentia

Jean-Christophe Pintaud and Donald R. Hodel

In Search of Thrinax ekmaniana

Paul Craft

Astrocaryum minus, Rediscovered in French Guiana

Francis Kahn and Jean-Jaques de Granville

Vol. 42, No. 4

Front cover:  Veitchia metiti Becc.  Photo by Scott Zona.

Back cover:  Chuniophoenix nana grown as a container plant, bearing clusters of orange-red fruits.  Photo by Scott Zona

Contents for October 1998

Reproductive Phenology of Cryosophila warscewiczii in Central Panama

Gregory H. Adler, Scott A. Mangan, Thomas D. Lambert

Marion Ruff Sheehan

Natalie W. Uhl

Palm Society Membership:  Looking ahead to the 21st Century

John Cressey, Gregory Haines

Palms and People:  A Symposium Summary

Terrance W. Walters

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Chuniophoenix in Cultivation

Scott Zona

The Making of a Dugout Canoe from the Trunk of the Palm Iriartea deltoidea

Dennis V. Johnson, Kember Mejia

Germination Characteristics of Sago Palm Seeds and Spine Emergence in Seedlings Produced from Spineless Palm Seeds

Hiroshi Ehara, Chikamasa Komada, Osamu Morita

The Palm flora of the Maquipucuna Montane Forest Reserve, Ecuador

Jens-Christina Svenning and Henrik Balslev

Astrocaryum carnosum and A. Chonta (Palmae), New Host for the Weevil Dynamis borassi (Curculionidae:   Rhynchophorinae)

Guy Couturier, Charles W. O'Brien, Francis Kahn