436 CLXIII. PALMED. (Beccari & Hook, f.) \Tr achy carpus. 



1. T. BXartiana, H. Wendl. in Bull. Soc. Sot. FT. viii. (1861) 429 ; 

 trunk for the most part naked annulate, fern. fl. solitary sessile, drupe 

 oblong equally rounded at both ends, seed grooved throughout its length 

 embryo opposite the middle of the groove. T. kliasiana,. H. Wendl. I. c. ; 

 Hook.f. Bof, Mag. t. 7128. Chamserops Martiana, Wall. Cat. n. 8621; 

 Mart, in Wall. PI. As. Ear. iii. 5, t. 211 ; Hist. Nat. Palm. iii. 251, 320 ; 

 Royle III. 394,-7,-9 ; G-rlff. in Calc. Journ. Nat. Hist. v. 339 ; Palms Brit. 

 Ind. 133. C. Griffithii, Lodd. Gat. Palm. 1841 ; Hort. Par. ex Rev. Hortic. 

 1879, 212, f. 43, ed. 1881, 143. C. khasyana, Griff, in Gale. Journ. Nat. 

 Hist. y. 341; Palms Brit. Ind. 134, t. 227 A, B, C ; Brand. For. Fl. 546 ; 

 Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Benq. 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 KHASIA 

 HILLS, alt. 4000-5000 ft. MUNNIPORE, Watt. BURMA, alt. 4-6500 ft., Kurz. 



Trunk 20-50 ft., slender; clothed beneath the crown with persistent leaf- 

 sheaths ; young parts softly furfuraceously hairy. Leaves 4-5 it. diam., subglaucous 

 beneath, cut about half way down into linear 2-lobed segments ; rigidly coriaceous ; 

 petiole 1^-2| ft., margins denticulate; sheath leaving stiff erect fibres. Spadix 

 1-H ft., nodding, glabrous; basal spathes 1 ft., coriaceous, split. Flowers yellow, 

 ovaries villous. Drupe 1-3, \ in. long, blueish, "dirty blue" (Kurz) "yellow 

 lepidote" (Wall.). 



2. T. excelsa, H. Wendl. in Bull. Soc. Sot. Fr. viii. 429 ; trunk 

 clothed throughout with old leaf-sheaths, flowers clustered 2-4 on a tubercle, 

 drupe reniform, deeply hollowed on one side, embryo opposite the umbili- 

 cus. T. Fortunei, Wendl. I. c. Chamaerops excelsa, Thunb. Fl. Jap. 130 

 (not var. /3) ; Mart. Hist Nat. Palm. iii. 251. Miquel Prolus. Fl. Jap. 329. 

 J. Gay in Bull. Soc. Bot. Fr. viii. 410 ; Francli. & Sav. Enum. PI. Jap. ii. 1 ; 

 Carriere in .Rev. Hortic. 1877, 223. C. Fortunei, Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 

 5221. 



UPPER BURMA, Yunan, T. Anderson. DISTRIB. China, Japan. 

 T. excelsa closely resembles T. Martiana, except in the trunk being clothed with 

 old leaf -sheaths. 



22. PHOXiXDOCARPUS, Blume. 



Trunk tall. Leaves orbicular, 4-5-partite ; pebiole spinous. Fruit 

 globose or ovoid with a tessellated pericarp. Seed laterally inserted, hilum 

 oval ; albumen ruminate ; embryo basilar. Species 5, Malayan, all very 

 imperfectly known. 



1. P. macrocarpa, Becc. Males, iii. 90, 92, t. 9, f. 1-3 ; fruit glo- 

 bosely obovoid 4-4| in. diam. distinctly tessellate, endocarp globose densely 

 fibrous, fibres elongate. ?P. Ihur, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. 591 (non Blume). 

 PLivistona Diepenhorstii, Teysm. fid. Miq. I. c. 



MALAYAN PENINSULA ; Klang, near Selangore, Keheding. 



Nothing further of this species is known; it differs from the P. IJtur of Am- 

 boyna in the larger more deeply tessellated fruits, and the long fibres of the outer 

 coat of the endocarp. 



23. CAXiAXKUS, Linn. 



Armed, erect or scandent, tufted palms. Leaves alternate, pinnatisect; 

 leaflets acuminate, nerves parallel, rachis often produced into an armed 



