416 CLXIII. PALMEÆ. (Beccari & Hook. f)  —[Korthalsia. 
straight spines ; rachis and flagellum with reversed claws. Spikes 3-4 in., tawa 
tomentose, very compact ; bracts smooth, a little longer than the villous bracteoles. 
Fruit } in. long, obovoid, mucronate; scales with a broadly lacerate pale ont 
membranous border.—Deser. from Kurz (of his scaphigera) in For. Fi. l. c. referr 
here by Beccari. 
6. K. ferox, Becc. Males, ii, 73; leaflets shortly petiolulate trapezoid 
about as long as broad pale beneath obtusely erosely toothed, sheath an 
ochrea thickly armed especially on the petiolar side with short spines, 
above fibrous-reticulate glabrous or finely scurfy. 
Var. malayana, Becc. mss, ; spines of the sheath and ochreajshorter, and covering 
the ventral face of the latter. "ick, Se 
Var. malayana, PERAK, at Larut (Hort. Cale. 6563) ; at Gunong Tjic » Sept, 
1844, Scortechini. 
I have seen no specimen. The type is Bornean. 
7. K. polystachya, Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm. iii. 210, t. 13, t l; 
leaflets cuneiform or obliquely trapezoid glaucous beneath o gi 
toothed, sheath and ochrea unarmed, spikes long slender flexuous. s T 
Fl. Ind. Bat. ii. 77; Becc. Males. à. 74. Calamosagus polystae dm 
Griff. ez Mart. Le 211. C. ochriger, Grif. Palms Brit. Ind. p. x. e ^^ 
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Matacca, Griffith. . 72 ft 
Stem very slender, about } in. diam., including the sheaths.* Leaves mae ously 
including the flagellum, subsessile ; leaflets 10-12, irregularly alternate, OT E 
woolly, shortly petiolulate, 6 by 3 in. ; rachis and flagellum armed with claws, Late 
rusty-pubescent; ochrea short, truncate. Spadices from the terminal axils, hor á 
forming a panicle 3-34 ft. long, clothed with long closely appressed spathes ; as wit 
a span to a foot long. Spikes 5-7 in.; peduncle with a tertiary eate TM 
bracts empty ; upper broad, 1-fld., and filled with stout wool.— Descr. from UTE, 
Si ochriger. Beccari thinks that Kurz is mistaken in uniting this with K. "9 
ume, 
8. X. tenuissima, Becc. Males. ii. 275; very slender, leaflets 93 
obovate or oblanceolate acuminate subacutely toothed pale beneath, 8 
sparingly armed, ochrea unarmed, spikes few, spathes tubular 9" 
dilated above. ' 
MALAY PENINSULA ; Perak, at Larut, King’s Collector (4057). iole 
Leaves with a very slender petiole ; leaflets 1-4 in. long by 1-14 broad; pum 
very short, base callous swollen.  Spik d H from the 
exceeding the calyx. pikes apparently g 
al. 
9. K. flagellaris, Mig. in Journ. Bot. Neerl. 15; Fl. Ind. Ee 
Suppl. 255, 591; leaflets numerous narrow elongate-cuneate rusty P 
cent beneath acutely erosely toothed, sheath armed dorsally unarmet p, 
the petiolar side, ochrea ‘armed only ventrally, spikes tomentose. ad 
angustifolia, Mig. Palm. Archip. Ind. 15, 26 (excl. sp. from Borneo 8 
var. 8) (not of Blume). 
Hr 
( SD). PENINSULA; Perak, Scortechini ; at Assam Kumbung; 
n. 3127). 
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Resembles in the form of its leaflets and their colouring beneath Z. rubigino® > 
which has longer straighter less cuneate leaflets with short not subulate teeth. 
