TRACHYCARPUS 



Trachycarpus, H. Wendland, ex Gay, in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, viii. 429 (1861); Bentham et 



Hooker, Gen. PI. iii. 929 (1883); Beccari, in Martelli, Webbia, i. 41-73 (1905). 

 Chamcerops, Martius, Hist. Nat. Palm. iii. 247 (1836-1850) (in part). 



Tall unarmed trees, belonging to the order Palmaceae, with flabellate leaves, 

 without a rachis, deeply divided into numerous plicate segments, which are narrow, 

 entire in margin, and bifid at the apex. 



Flowers monoecious ; spadices numerous, panicled, sessile between the leaves, 

 and embraced by sheathing coriaceous spathes ; individual flowers small ; sepals 

 three, ovate ; petals three, broadly ovate, valvate ; stamens six, with free filaments 

 and short dorsifixed anthers, rudimentary in female flowers ; ovary of three carpels, 

 connate at the base, represented in the male flowers by three small subulate pro- 

 cesses ; stigmas three, recurved ; ovules basilar, erect. Fruits, one to three, globose 

 or oblong, with a terminal style ; containing one erect seed, which is grooved on 

 the ventral side, and has a small hilum at the base. 



Three species 1 of Trachycarpus are known, natives of the Himalayas, Assam, 

 Burma, and China. 



TRACHYCARPUS FORTUNEI, Chusan Palm 



Trachycarpus Fortunei, H. Wendland, in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, viii. 429 (1861); Masters, in Gard. 



Chron. xxiv. 304, fig. 65 (1885). 

 Trachycarpus excelsa, H. Wendland, in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, viii. 429 (1861); Planchon, in Flore 



des Serres, xxii. 207, t. 2368 (1877); Beccari and J. D. Hooker, in J. D. Hooker, Flora Brit. 



India, vi. 436 (1892); Diels, in Engler, Bot. Jahrb. xxix. 233 (1900); Wright, in Journ. Linn. 



Soc. {Bot.) xxxvi. 168 (1903); Masters, in Gard. Chron. xxxv. 312, Supply. Illust. (1904); 



Beccari, in Martelli, Webbia, i. 41 (1905). 

 Chamcerops excelsa, Martius, Hist. Nat. Palm. iii. 251, t. 125, figs. 2, 3 (1836-1850) (not 



Thunberg 2 ); Miquel, Anal. Bot. Ind. ii. 21 (1851); Gay, in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, viii. 410 



(1861); Houllet, in Rev. Hort. xl. 370, coloured plate (1868). 

 Chamcerops Fortunei, W. J. Hooker, in Bot. Mag. t. 5221 (excl. figs. 6, 7) (i860). 



A palm, attaining 30 to 50 ft. in height, with the trunk annulately scarred and 

 clothed throughout with old leaf-sheaths. Leaves: lamina sub-orbicular or fan- 



1 The two species, not described by us, as they are scarcely hardy in cultivation, are : T. Martiana, Wendland, widely 

 spread in the central and western Himalayas, Assam, and Burma; and T. Takil, Beccari, in Webbia, 52 (1905), which is a 

 peculiar species occurring in Kumaon. The latter species is cultivated by Prof. Beccari in his garden at Florence. Bean, in 

 Kew Bull. 1912, p. 291, quotes Beccari's description and gives a figure of this tree, which is readily distinguishable from 

 T. Fortunei by its different habit and by the closer and neater fibre of the trunk. 



1 Chamarops excelsa, Thunberg, Ft. Jap. 130 (1784), is plainly from the description another palm, Rhapis flabtllifonnis, 

 Aiton, Hort. Kew. iii. 473 (1789). Cf. Sims, Bot. Mag. t 1371 (181 1). 



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