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Sarju valley near Bagesar. Dwarf specimens were found at the base 

 of the Satbunga Mountain, south-east of the Gagar Pass, in very- 

 dense forest at 6,500 feet elevation, and on the Berchula, a spur 

 of the Bhatkot Mountain, considerably farther in the interior, 

 and at about 8,000 feet elevation, which probably is its western 

 limit). 



Illustration. — Martiu's Ohusan Palm which is figured on 

 Plate XI A, is kept in a hot house of the Kew Gardens, whilst 

 Fortune's Chusan Palm (Plate XI B) is growing in the same 

 garden in the open. We owe the two photographs to the kindness 

 of Mr. A. W. Hill, the Assistant Director of the Royal Botanic 

 Gardens in Kew. 



TRAOHYCARPUS EXCELSA, H. Wendl. in Bull. Soc. Fr. VIII, 429 ; 

 Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. VI, 436. — Trachycarpus fortunei, Wendl. I.e.— 

 Chamaerops e.vcelsa, Thunb. Fl. Jap. 130 (not var. (3) ; Mart, Hist. Nat. 

 Palm. III. 251 ; Miquel Fl. Jap. 329 ; J. Gay in Bull. Soc. Bot. Fr. VIII. 

 410 ; Franch. et Sav. Enum. PI. Jap. II. 1 ; Carriere in Rev. Hortic. 

 1877, 223.— C. fortunei, Hook. Bot. Mag., t. 5221. 



Name. — Fortune's Ohusan Palm. 



Description. — Stem of considerable height, clothed throughout 

 with old leaf sheaths and a good deal of course transverse fibre, 

 which also abounds among the perfect foliage. Leaves forming a 

 handsome, more or less spreading crown. Petioles 1^ foot or more 

 long, convex below, nearly plain above, the margin quite unarmed 

 or very obscurely toothed. Lamina semiorbicular, flabellate, 1^ foot 

 long and broad, deeply plaited, cut for about a half or more of the 

 way down into numerous linear segments, which are f -1 inch broad, 

 pendulous towards their apices. Spadix small in proportion to the 

 plant, and consequently not very conspicuous, emerging from 

 several imbricating leafy bracts, and constituting a dense thyreoid 

 panicle, more than a span long and clothed with yellow flowers. 

 Flowers clustered, 2-4 on a tubercle, sessile. Calyx small, of 3 sepals. 

 Corolla of 3 orbicular petals. Stamens inserted on the base of the 

 petals. Ovaries 3, ovate, hairy, tapering upwards into a thick 

 subsulate style. Drupe reniform, deeply hollowed on one side ; 

 embryo opposite the umbilicus. 





