~ Tap, 7128, 
TRACHYCARPUS xaasyanus. 
Native of Eastern Bengal and Burma. 
Nat. Ord. Patmem.—Tribe Coryrura. 
Genus Tracuycarrus, H, Wendl. ; (Benth. et Hook. J. Gen, Pl. vol. iii. p. 929.) 
Tracuycarrus khasyanus; candice 30 pedali gracili levi obscure annulato, 
foliis orbicularibus ambitu breviter multifidis lobis bifidis rectis v, 
recurvis subtus subglaucescentibus, vaginis in fibras rigidas erectas solutis 
junioribus marginibus furfuraceo-lanatis, petiolo limbo subequilongo 
marginibus eroso-denticulatis, ligula brevi truncata, spadice bipedali 
nutante compressa basi spathis inclusa ramosa, pedunculo ramisque 
crassis 4—6-pollicaribus, spathis coriaceis flavo-fuscis marginibus apices 
versus villosis inferioribus bifidis rameis integris, floribug Aavis ramulis 
spadicis tertialibus glabris confertis parvalis, sepalis ovato-oblongis 
obtusis quam sepala late ovata obtusa multoties minoribus, filamentis 
glabris petalis equilongis, carpellis 3 demum lanatis, drupis 1-3 oblongis 
coeruleis. 
Trachycarpus khasyanus, Wendl. in Bull. Bot. Soc. Frane. vol. viii. p. 429. 
Chamerops khasyana, Griff. in Cale. Journ. Nat. Hist. vol. y. p. 8341; Palms 
of British India, p. 134, t. 227 A, B; Brand. For, Flor. p. 546 (syn. C. 
Martiana); Gamble Man, Ind. Timb, 418; Kurz For. Flor, vol, ii. p. 526; 
Verlot in Rev. Hortic. 1876, p. 275 (cum Ic. xylog.). 
C. Griffithii, Lodd. Cat. Palm. 1841. 
This handsome Palm here figured is one of a pair pur- 
chased for the Royal Gardens, Kew, at the sale of the 
collections that ornamented the Conservatory of the Royal 
Horticultural Gardens, South Kensington, in 1889. They 
are supposed to have been originally procured from the 
garden of the Duke of Wellington at Strathfieldsaye, and 
they are now in the Temperate House of Kew,- lanted in 
the ground. It is an interesting Palm, as Connecting © 
botanically and in geographical range the Himalayan — 
with the Chinese and Japanese species of the genus, 
namely, 7. Martianus, Wendl., of the Western Himalaya, > 
the Chinese 7’. Fortwnei, Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 5221 (Chame- 
rops), and the cultivated T. exce/sus, Wendl., of J apan. 
These species are closely allied, insomuch that Griffith, — 
Verlot, Gamble, Brandis and others have hazarded the 
Opinion that two or all of them may be forms of one. As 
Aveusr Ist, 1890. : 
