THE PALMS 01 BRITISH INDIA AND CEYLON. 



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Fig. 7. 

 Trachycarpus martiana 



1. Base of lamina of leaf and ligule. 



2. Back view of flower. 



3. Flower. 



4 and 5. Stamens. 



6. Carpels. 



7. The same dehising when still young 



8. Transverse Section of the same show- 



ing the ovule. (2 — 8 magnified) 

 (After Hooker). 



Habitat. — Central Himalaya, Kumaon and Nepal, 5-8,000 feet; 

 Khasia Hills, 4-5,000 feet ; Manipur 6,000 feet ; Upper Burma, 

 Kachin Hills, 4-6,500 feet. (Grows in great numbers, forming 

 clumps and rows, on the Thakil Mountain in Eastern Kumaon, in 

 the Fork between the Sarju and Kali rivers, between 6,500 and 

 7,800 feet, where snow generally covers the ground from November 

 till March above the zone of Pinus longifolia in the region of 

 Quercus, Rhododendron, Andromeda, and Taxus, in damp shady 

 glens on the north and south-east, but chiefly on the north-west side. 

 Also on Dhuj Mountain, north-east of the Thakil, on the Kali- 

 moandi range between the Ramgunga and Gori rivers, and in the 



