erown at Kew, however, they show, as in distribution, con- 
siderable differences. 7’. Martianus is confined to the Western 
Himalaya, extending in so far as is known from Central 
Nepal to Kumaon, where it ascends to seven thousand eight - 
hundred feet elevation. It has leaves very glaucous 
beneath with drooping tips to the segments, and the 
drupe is described as yellow, but Brandis and others say 
that this is its colour in the unripe state only, for when 
ripe it is pale blue. The fibrous remains of the leaf- 
sheaths form a beautiful close network. 1. khasyanus 
extends from the Western Khasia hills, at three thousand 
five hundred to four thousand feet elevation, into Munni- 
pore (top of Mount Kassoma, altitude six thousand five 
hundred feet, Watt), and thence into Burma (pine forests 
of Martaban, altitude four thousand to six thousand five 
hundred feet, and the Kakhyen hills in Ava, Kurz); it 
also occurs in Upper Burma, at Monyen, altitude five 
thousand to six thousand feet, J. Anderson, there bordering 
on China. The leaves are hardly glaucous beneath, the 
young densely furfuraceous along the edges of the folds, 
their tips straight (in a sketch of my own made in the 
Khasia) or recurved (Griffith), not drooping, and the drupe 
is a dirty blue. It has not been found in the Hastern 
Himalaya, except small plants of what Mr. Gamble thinks 
may be the same should prove to be so, and which that 
botanist found near Dumsong in Sikkim, altitude six 
thousand five hundred feet. | 
Whether T. khasyanus differs or not specifically from 
i ae Martianus isdoubtful. Griffith distinguishes khasyanus 
by its shorter stouter stature, the petioles toothed 
throughout, the nature of the rete, and the texture of the 
leaves, which is more like that of Chamerops humilis,—not 
one of which characters do I find to be valid, except 
perhaps the rete. Both, however, unquestionably differ 
from T. Fortunei and excelsa in their beautiful slender 
polished trunks, with a very short crown of appressed 
fibrous sheaths at the top; whereas in the Chinese plants 
the much stouter trunk is clothed for upwards of seven feet 
with a dense ragged mass of sheath-fibres. The leaves of the ~ 
Indian plants are on the whole less deeply lobed, though 
much more deeply than is represented by the artist in tie 
reduced figure of the plant here given. 
