436 CLXII. PALMEA. (Beccari & Hook, f. ^ [Trachyearpus. 
1. T. Martiana, H Wendl. in Bull. Soc. Bot. Fr. viii. (1861) 423; 
irunk for the most part naked annulate, fem. fl. solitary sessile, drupe 
oblong equally rounded at both ends, seed grooved throughout its length 
embryo opposite the middle of the groove. T. khasiana, H. Wendl. l. ei 
Hook. f. Bot. Mag. t. 7128. Chamerops Martiana, Wall. Cat. n. 8621; 
Mart. in Wall. Pl. As. Rar. iii. 5, t. 211; Hist. Nat. Palm. iii. 251, 320; 
Royle Ill. 394,-7,-9; Griff. in Cale. Journ. Nat. Hist. v. 339; Palms Brit. 
Ind. 133. C. Griffithii, Lodd. Cat. Palm. 1841; Hort. Par. ex Rev. d 
1879, 212, f. 43, ed. 1881, 143. C. khasyana, Griff. in Cale. Journ. Nat. 
Hist. v. 341; Palms Brit. Ind. 134, t. 227 A, B, O; Brand. For. Fl. 546; 
Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xliii. 204; For. Fl. ii. 526; Gamble Man. 
Ind. Timb. 418; Houllet in Rev. Hortic. 1879, 272 (with woodcut). 
TEMPERATE HIMALAYA, alt. 6-8000 ft., from Nepal eastwards, the Kasia 
HILLS, alt. 4000-5000 ft. MuxxiPon&, Watt. BURMA, alt. 4-6500 ft., Kurs. l 
Trunk 20-50 ft., slender; clothed beneath the crown with. persistent cows 
sheaths; young parts softly furfuraceously hairy. Leaves 4-5 ft. diam., subg AUN 
beneath, cut about half way down into linear 2-lobed segments; rigidly conn adia 
petiole 11-23 ft., margins denticulate; sheath leaving stiff erect fibres. e 
1-1i ft., nodding, glabrous; basal spathes 1 ft., coriaceous, split. Flower? Y^ ilow 
ovaries villous. Drupe 1-3, } in. long, blueish, “dirty blue” (Kurz) “Y 
lepidote " (Wall.). 
2. T. excelsa, H. Wendl. in Bull. Soc. Bot. Fr. vin. 409; € on 
clothed throughout with old leaf-sheaths, flowers clustered 2-4 on a tu Tu 3 
drupe reniform, deeply hollowed on one side, embryo opposite Dag 
cus. T. Fortunei, Wendl. Le Chamerops excelsa, Thunb, Fl. Jap: 339. 
(not var. B); Mart. Hist Nat. Palm. iii. 251. Miquel Prolus. Fl. e li 
J. Gay in Bull. Soc. Bot. Fr. viii. 410; Franch. & Sav. Enum. PI. Ver dx 
Le in Rev. Hortic. 1877, 223. O. Fortunei, Hook. Bot. #09. 
Upper Burma, Yunan, T. Anderson.—DISTRIB. China, Japan. 
T. excelsa closely resembles T. Martiana, except in the trunk being 
old leaf-sheaths. 
clothed with 
22. PHOLIDOCARPUS, Blume. 
Trunk tall. Leaves orbicular, 4-5-partite; petiole spinous: hilum 
globose or ovoid with a tessellated pericarp. Seed laterally inserted, very 
oval; albumen ruminate; embryo basilar.—Species 5, Malayan, 9 
imperfectly known. 
1. P. macrocarpa, Becc. Males. iii. 90, 92, t. 9, f. 1-3; troit er 
bosely obovoid 4-43 in. diam. distinctly tessellate, endocarp globose Blume 
fibrous, fibres elongate. PP. hur, Mig. Fl. Ind. Bat. 591 (non 
PLivistona Diepenhorstii, Teysm. fid. Mig. l. c. 
MALAYAN PENINSULA; Klang, nea gore, Keheding. e 
Nothing further of this species is See eg from the P. Ihr, e Sech 
boyna in the larger more deeply tessellated fruits, and the long fibres of 
coat of the endocarp. 
23. CALAMUS, Iann. j 
tisects 
rme 
Armed, erect or scandent, tufted palms. Leaves alternate, p d 
leaflets acuminate, nerves parallel, rachis often produced into 
