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grow well in a" compost of rich, strong loam with a small portion 

 of vegetable mould and sand. Perfect drainage, and copious 

 supplies of water throughout the summer are essential. They may 

 be propagated by suckers or by seeds. 



TRACHYCARPUS MARTIANA. H. Wendl. in Bull. Soc. Bot. Fr. 

 VIII. (1861) 429; Hook. Fl. Brit. Ind., VI. 436.— T. khasiana, H. Wendl. 

 1. c ; Hook. f. Bot. Mag. t. 7128. — Chamaerops martiana, Wall. Cat. n. 8621 ; 

 Mart, in Wall. PI. Asiat. Rar. III. 5, t. 211 ; Hist. Nat. Palm. III. 251, 320; 

 Royle 111., 394, (-73-9) ; Griff, in Calc. Journ. Nat. Hist. V. 339; 

 Palms Brit. Ind. 133.— Chamaerops griffithii, Lodd. Cat. Palm. 1841 ; Hort. 

 Par. ex Rev. Hortic. 1879, 212, f. 43, ed. 1881, 143.— Ch. hhasyana, Griff. 

 in Calc. Journ. Nat. Hist. V. 341 ; Palms Brit. Ind., 134 ; t. 227 A, B, 

 C ; Brand. For. Fl. 546 ; Kurz in Journ. Asiat. Soc. Beng. XLIII. 204 ; 

 For. Fl. II. 526 ; Gamble Man. Ind. Timb. 418 ; Houllet in Rev. Hortic. 

 1879, 272. 



Names. — Jhangra, Jhaggar, Tal, Takil (Kumaon) ; Pakha 

 (Ass.) ; Taggu (Newar name in Nepal). 



Description. — A tall, slender tree, 20-50 feet high, often 

 stunted on dry ground or in otherwise unfavourable localities, 

 with a globose crown of dark shining leaves, clothed beneath the 

 crown with persistent leaf-sheaths ; young parts furfuraceously 

 hairy. Petioles 3 feet long, the sheathing base consisting of two 

 layers, the inner layer, which separates from the outer, being 

 composed of a net-work of brown tough fibres, crossing each other 

 at oblique angles, forming a close network of rhomboid meshes ; 

 upper part of petiole half-round, woolly, edges slightly denticulate. 

 Blade orbicular, consisting of 30-40 linear segments, 15-20 inches 

 long, connate to one-third or one-half their length, emarginate or 

 shortly bifid at the top, rigidly coriaceous. Spadix a drooping 

 compound panicle, 1-1^ foot long, covered with dark rust-coloured 

 down, with several stout main branches, each in the axil of a large 

 coriaceous sheathing bract ; basal spathes 1 foot long. Petals ovate, 

 concave whitish ; stamens 6 ; filaments subulate, nearly free, 

 longer than the anthers. Ovary and the rudiments of ovary in 

 male flowers, hairy. Drupe 1, oblong, at first yellow, dark glossy 

 blue when ripe. 





