348 IMajov Madden on the Occurrence of Palms, i^c, 



4° north latitude, Humboldt discovered Ceroxylon Andicola at 

 from 5800 to 9500 feet, associated with a genus of Barabusidse 

 {Chusquea), which, as we shall presently observe, has move than 

 one representative in the Himalaya also. He also informs us 

 that on the western slope of Mexico, Corypha dulcis is mixed up 

 in the forests of Pinus occidentalis. 



Chamtei-ops Khasijana appears also to occur on Dhuj mounT 

 tain, a few miles north-east of the Thakil ; on the Kaleemooudee 

 range between the rivers Ramgunga and Goree ; and in the valley 

 of the Surjoo near Bagesur, In the north-west of Kemaon I dis- 

 covered dwarf specimens in two localities, viz. at the base of the 

 Sutboonga mountain south-east of the Gagur Pass, in very dense 

 forest at 6500 feet elevation ; and on the Berchoola, a spur of 

 Bhutkot mountain, considerably further in the interior, and at 

 about 8000 feet elevation. In neither of these stations could I 

 find any examples with stems beyond a foot or two high, and 

 this circumstance, as well as the fact that inquiry and investiga- 

 tion failed to detect any trace of their extension to the north- 

 west, leads me to conclude that these points form the limit of 

 the species in longitude. I must add, hovvevei', that in a paper 

 addressed to Baron von Humboldt, the late Dr. W. Hoffmeister 

 states that in the province of Gurhwal, on the descent from 

 Dhun]X)or to the Alacananda river (the main arm of the Ganges), 

 he came upon a forest of Pinus longifolia at 6800 feet ; " and it 

 is very remarkable that the Chamcerops Martiana (AVallich) is 

 here in immediate contact with it, some tall stems of that palm 

 being even scattered in among the pines " (Travels in Ceylon and 

 India, English Translation, p. 495). But in 1849 I went over 

 this very ground, and on the most careful scrutiny no such trees 

 were to be seen or beard of ; and it is certain that in his letters 

 written on or near the spot, as well as in the ' Synopsis of Vege- 

 tation' (pp. 307, 507) for this very route, no palm is mentioned 

 excei)t Phoenix humilis, which I myself also found to be common 

 and occasionally arborescent; and such I doubt not is what 

 Dr. Hoffmeister really intended. I had the pleasure of meeting 

 him at Simla the same year (1845) that he made his journey, 

 and being then engaged in some researches on the Coniferaj of the 

 Himalaya, and having never then visited Kemaon and south-east 

 Gurhwal, he veiy kindly furnished me with some brief memo- 

 randa on their occurrence in those districts ; and here too I find 

 Phoenix humilis alone mentioned in the locality specified. Hence 

 I am justified in considering the stations on Bhutkot and Sut- 

 boonga in Kemaon, as the most westerly at which Chainai-ops 

 lias hitherto been observed*. A species of Musa (plantain or 



* A species of ChamfFrops, railed Hemp Palm, has recently l>een dis- 

 covered by Mr. Fortune in tlie nortlierii provinces of China, Chekiang and 



