Trachycarpus takil Becc.

This interesting palm was described by Beccari from a plant in his own garden at Florence, raised from seeds sent by Brandis from Kumaon in 1884. In this region of the Himalaya, to the immediate west of Nepal, T. takil occurs in several localities at an altitude of 6–8,000 ft. It is more closely allied to T. fortunei than to T. martianus, with which it was at first confused, differing in the closer fibres of the trunk, the less deeply divided leaves and, at least in the type, the more elegant crown. It should be hardy in Britain, as it was in Professor Beccari’s garden; his plant is portrayed in Kew Bulletin 1912, p. 291.