Traehycarpus] CX. PALM.E 657 



ventrally grooved, endosperm uniform, embryo dorsal. Species 2 or 3, Hima- 

 laya, China, and Japan. 



1. T. Martiana, H. WendL— Syn. T. hhasiana, H. WendL; Bot. Mag. t. 7128: 

 Cltamierops Mar-liana, Wall. PI. As. Ear. t. 211: I'll. Kkasyana, Grift". Palms t. 227 

 A. B. Win. Jhangra, Jhaggar, Tal. Takil. Kumaon ; Pakha, Ass. Central Himalaya, 

 Kumaon and Nepal, &-8,000 ft. Khasi hills. Manipur, 6,00<3 ft. Kachin hills. Upper 

 Burma. Forests of Pima Khasya, Martaban hills, 4-6,500 ft. (Kurz). Trunk slender , 

 attaining 50 ft., but often stunted, obscurely annulate. Pet. 3 ft. long, the lower 

 sheathing portion separates into brown tough fibres, forming a close network of rhom- 

 boid meshes, the upper portion half round, the edges slightly denticulate. Blade 

 orbicular, segments 30^10, linear, 15-20 in. long, connate to one-third or one-half 

 their length. Spadix stout, drooping, clothed with dark rust-coloured down, branches 

 stout, in the axils of large coriaceous sheathing bracts. Petals ovate, concave, whitish, 

 filaments longer than anthers. Ovary and the rudiment of ovary in i fl. hairy. 

 I)rui«' one. iililmig, yi'llow at first, dark glossy blue when ripe. Beccari regards the 

 Kumaon tic.' as distinct anddescribes itas T. Takil inWebbia 52, fr. reniform, similar 

 to T.excelsa. 2. T. excelsa, H.AVendl. — Syn. Chammrops Fortunei, Hook, in Bot. Mag. t. 

 5221. Upper Burma. — China, Japan. Trunk mostly clothed with old leaf-sheaths, fl. 

 2-4 clustered on tubercles. Fr. reniform, hollowed on one side. 



17. BORASSUS, Linn.; Fl. Brit. Ind. vi. 481. 



B. flabellifer, Linn, (the only species). The Palmyra. — Syn. B.flabelli- 

 formis, Roxb. Cor. PI. t. 71, 72. Sans. Trinardja. Vera. Ted, Tar, Hind.; 

 Tdd, Tamar, Mar. Potu Tddi, the male ; Penti tadi, the female tree, 

 Telugu : Tan. Burm. Trunk attains 100 ft. and 2 ft. diam. near the ground, 

 with a dense mass of long rootlets : while young covered with dry 1. or the 

 base of petioles, old stems marked with the black narrow scars of the petioles. 

 L. 3-5 ft. diam., segments fiO-80, shining, folded along the midrib, linear- 

 lanceolate, pet. 2-4 ft. long, semiterete, edges with hard horny spiuescent 

 serratures. Fl. dicecious, spadix simply branched, sheathed with numerous 

 open spathes, ^ spikes 1-3 at the ends of branches, cylindric, densely clothed 

 with thick closely imbricating bracts, numerous miuute unilateral spikelets 

 concealed by these bracts, so as to appear immersed in the spike, the fl. coming 

 to the surface one by one, as they successively open, stamens 6, filaments 

 connate with the corolla into a stalk. 9 spikes terminating the branches of 

 spadix. H. globose, 1 in. diam., sepals imbricate, petals convolute, ovary 

 3-4-celled. Fr. subglobose, 6 in. diam., enclosed by the enlarged and partly 

 fleshy perianth. Pvrenes 1-3, obcordate, fibrous outside, endosperm horny, 

 hollow. 



A native of tropical Africa. Cultivated and self-sown throughout India and Burma, 

 as far north ;i- Lai. :Hi"'. Tin' leaves are used for writ ing upon, the cut fl. stalks yield 

 sugar and toddy, the fr. is masted and eaten. PI. March, April. 



IS. CORYPHA, Linn. ; Fl. Brit. Ind. vi. 428. 



Tall, monoearpir, dying after ripening their seed, at the age between 17 

 and In years. I., very large, orbicular or lunate, flabellately nraltifid, 



segments folded lengthwise, pet. st..ut i cave, spinous at th Iges. Spadix 



terminal, erect, paniculate. Fl. bisexual, small, calyx 3-fid, petals •>. connate 

 :it base, stamens ll, filaments subulate, anthers dorsitixed, ovary .'i-lobed. Fr 

 usually our globose drupe jj-1. 1 . in. diam., with 2 abortive carpels at the base. 

 Seed iv.-t, embryo at the summit of the uniform hard horny endosperm. 

 Species ,; . tropical Asia. 



1. C. umbraculifera, I. inn. Tht Talipot palm. Sans. Tali. Vera. Tara, Tarit, 

 Bene. . Tali, 8hri-tali, Kan. Indigenous on the Andaman-, and in tl»' moist forests of 

 the Kunitj and Honavar talukas of North Kanara, covering extensive areas near 

 Qairsoppa and Yena, Talbot List, ed. li. 848, V>i wild in Travancore. Cultivated 

 in tropical India, Ceylon and Hun mi. Trunk annulate, attains 80 ft. and 2] ft. diam., 

 pet. stout, 6 in ft. long, shorl ly bifid al the base, blade 8-16 ft. diam.,olefl to about the 

 .middle into 80 i |M ' linear segments up to Sin. broad, Spadix pyramidal, 10 20 ft, 



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