While we were delighted to find this palm in so many gardens in Kalimpong and were certain about its identity, we felt we really had to try to locate a population in the wild before formally describing it as a new species. This was to take another 12 months, during which it was searched for high and low in Sikkim and in the Kalimpong district. We travelled back, looking forward with great excitement to what was to be a highlight of the trip. This excerpt is the first two pages of the article that originally appeared in the January 1998 issue of Principes . Several color photos accompany the article.
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