Korthalsia.] CLXIII. PALMEX. (Beccari & Hook. f.) 475 
Stem about 3 in. diam. Leaves flagelliferous ; leaflets opposite, 12-15 in. long, 
broad, acuminate, green and shining above, 3—-4-nerved ; petiole about 20 in. ; 
spines short; rachis with stout claws; sheath armed with short flattened spines 
almost, enveloped by the ochrea, which is 5-6 in. long, and armed with scattered 
spines 2-3 in. long.—Fower and fruit unknown. 
2. K. scaphigera, Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm. iii. 211; ochrea cymbi- 
form lanceolate armed with short conical spines, leaflets rhomboid-obovate 
or -cuneate acuminate erosely lobulate above the middle. Mig. Fl. Ind. 
Bat. iii. 750; Palm. Archip. Ind. 26; Becc. Males. 67, t. 5. K. Lobbiana, 
Ht. Wendl. in Bot. Zeit. xvii. 174; Miq. d. cc. K. rostrata, Blume, Rumph. 
1. 168, ? Calamosagus scaphigera, Palms Brit. Ind. 30, t. 184 A; Kurz 
For. Fl. i. 513. C. wallichiæfolius, Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm. Ic. 211. 
Marnacca, Grifith. PERAK, King’s Collector (6833, 8144).— DISTRIB. 
Umatra, 
Stem slender, 3-1 in. diam. Leaves 21 ft.; leaflets distant, sessile, glaucous 
beneath ; sheath armed with a few scattered conieal prickles and generally split 
along the back into a fibrous network; ochrea forming the upper 3, boat-shaped, 
closely half embracing the next sheath ; petiole roundish, back armed with claws.— 
Descr. from Griffith, 
3. K. Scortechinii, Becc. mss. ; ochrea elongate armed with short 
Scattered spines, leaflets linear or cuneately oblanceolate 8-10 times longer 
than broad 
PERAK, Scortechini, 
Leaflets 14-16 by 13-2 in., alternate and subopposite, equidistant, oblanceolate, 
white beneath, 5-7-nerved, acutely toothed ; sheath and ochrea (6-8 in. long) armed. 
—Distinguished from Z. scaphigera by the much longer ochrea, and more numerous 
narrower leaflets, 
4. K. wallichizefolia, H. Wendl. in Kerchoff Palm. 248; leaflets 
many broadly cuneately obovate obtusely erosely toothed as long or twice 
as long as broad. Bece. Males. i. 75. Calamosagus wallichiefolius, 
if. in Cale. Journ. Nat. Hist. v. 24; Palms Brit. Ind. t. 184. C. 
harinæfolins, Grif. l. c. in text p. 29. 
Matacca (fror interi rifith. . 
A very liti ka be at anih describes the leaves as resembling those of 
] laciniosa, but with less deep more obtuse incisions; the spadix as covered wit 
8 smooth spathes with lacerate mouths; spikes (immature) a span long by $ ich 
lam. 5 lateral pedicels plano-convex, bearing a long spathe about the middle, whic 
hes the base of the spike; bractez broad, longer than the dense wool. 
We Ochrea not inflated. 
5. K. lacinio rt. Hist. Nat. Palm. iii. 212; leaflets rhomboid 
ovate or trapezoid rine Tone as broad acutely erosely toothed, ochrea 
lacerate Sparingly armed spikes tomentose. Kurz m Journ. As. Soc. 
wii pl ii (1874) 207; Bece. Males. ii. 74 (excl. pl. Salangore). K. scaphi- 
Ko Kurz L. c. 206 (excl. all syns.) t. 20, 21; For. FI. ii. 513 (not of Mart.). 
Ca andamanensis Bece. Males. ii, 76. Calamosagus laciniosus, Grif. in 
tle. Journ, Nat, Hist. v. 23, t. 1; Palms Brit. Ind. 27, t. 183. 
Borwa the A 
, NDAMAN and NICOBAR Isrps. . . 
tem slender, } jn, diam. Leaves 2-4 ft.; leaflets subapproximate, 4-7 in. long, 
terminal broadest, fugaciously white tomentose beneath; petiole lj-2 ft, with 
