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THE PALMS OF BRITISH INDIA AND CEYLON, 

 INDIGENOUS AND INTRODUCED 



BY 



E. Blatter, S.J. 



Part IV. 



(With Plates XII, XIII, XIV, XV, XVI & XVII.) 



(Continued from page 705 of this Volume.) 



TRAC HI CARPUS TAKIL, Becc. Webbia I, 52.— Chamaerops martiana 

 (non-Wallich) Duthie in Gard. Chronicle 1886, 10th April, p. 457. — Boyle, 

 Illustr. of the Bot. of Himal. Mount., pp. 394, 397, 399 (ex parte?)— Hook. 

 f. Himal. Journ. II, 280 (quod ad plant, ex Himal. occid. pertinet). 



Names. — Takil, Jhangra, Jhaggar, Tal (in Kumaon). 



Stem of young plants growing oblique, then ascending, erect, 

 straight and stout, distinctly conical when young (in a young 

 specimen, \1\ feet high, the stem measured 3-| feet in circum- 

 ference at the base and only 1 foot at the top) ; when fully 

 developed 30-40 feet high, produces flowers when about 3J feet 

 high, always covered with the permanent leaves and the chestnut- 

 brown fibrous network; the ligular appendages of the sheath 

 erect, similar to those of T. excelsa, but much shorter, broad, 

 triangular, remaining erect in the terminal bud. Leaves all 

 permanent, similar to those of T. excelsa, but those of the previ- 

 ous year just below the last flowering spadices reflexed, but per- 

 manent. Petiole about as long as the limb, slender, subtrigonous, 

 the lower angle rounded ; margins very acute, armed with minute 

 irregular subspinescent teeth or crenulations ; ligule at the top 

 of the petiole semilunar, irregular, crenate in the upper part. 

 Blade f orbicular, 3^-4 feet in diameter, with 45-50 divisions 

 measuring 2J-2f feet from the top of the petiole to the apex of 

 the median segments. Segments very irregularly divided, more 

 or less down to the middle, green, rather shining on the upper 

 surface, glaucescent pruinose on the lower ; central segments 

 about li inch broad from the base to almost the top, where they 

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