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BECCABI. 



Ocrea elongate-elliptic, ventricose, 9 to 10 cm long-, 2 cm broad, thinly 

 coriaceous, armed with small scattered, short, rigid prickles. Leaves with 

 a Blender biconvex, flattened petiolar part, about 80 cm long. I mm broad, 

 with rather obtuse and smooth vd^, armed beneath along the center 

 with a few solitary claws; rachis in the intermediate portion armed 

 almost regularly with tomato claws; leaflets distinctly ansate, narrowly 

 rhomboid-cuneate, broadest above their middle, 15 to 80 cm long. I to 

 5 cm broad, rather acutely praemprse-dentate in the upper margins, and 

 producea ai the summit into an acuminate point, green above, white 

 beneath, with about 3 primary costae. Spadix unknown. 



Mindanao, District of Zamboanga For. Bur. 48X6 Hutchinson, July, 1906. 

 N. v.. tanguguid. 



This is to all appearanoM the representative form in the Philippines of K. 

 toaphigera from which it differs in the much more elongate ocrea. 



To ST. tcaphigeroidea are probably to l>e referred some ooncirriferout leavee 

 from young plants collected on Hash. an Island. For. Bur, 6106 Hutekinton, 

 July, 1906. 



Korthalsia squarrosa Becc. »p. nov. 



Mediocris, caudice vaginato, 2 cm diametro. Frondes cirro rerticil- 

 latim aculeato terminate; vagina spiculis gracilibus, 5-6 mm longis, 

 armata; ocrea longiuscula (6-7 cm longa). chartaeea, marcescenti et 

 fragili, arete vaginanti. minime injflata, in ventre aperta; petiolo superne 

 piano, Bubtus eonvexo, ad margined spinis nonnullis rectis, borizontalibus, 



armalo; segment is longiuscule ansafis, rhomhoideo-cuneatis. L8-20 cm 

 longis, 6-7 cm latis, supra viridibus, subtus albicantibus, antice argute 

 inaequaliter dentatis, dentibus maioribus aristatis. Spadicis spicae flori- 

 ferae cylindracece, apice obtusse, 20 cm Longee, 2(1-2'.' mm crassae, squarroae, 

 bracteis in tomento rion immersjs, late ovatis, argute venoso-striatis; 

 apicc noii adpresso, triangular] ; flcJribus inter bracteolas in dorso carinatas 

 et paleolis veetitas, oidulantibus, 13 mm longis; ealyce cyathiformi, usque 



ad medium trilobo; corolla calyce 3-plo longiori. Fructus 



Sheathed stem about 2 cm in diameter. Leaf -sheaths armed with very 

 small slender spiculae, 5 to 6 mm long, resting on a tuberculiform base. 

 Ocrea papery, marcescent, brittle, rather elongate (apparently (i to T cm 

 long), closely sheathing but open on the ventral side (not inflated). 

 Leaves of the adult plant terminated by a long and slender cirrus, which 

 is densely armed with scmiverticillate, very Blender, sharp claws; petiole 

 quite flat above, convex beneath with acute margins, sparingly armed with 

 short, straight, horizontal spines. Leaflets green above, white beneath; 

 those of the upper pari of cirriferous leaves having 11 main and radiating 

 nerves or eostu' and being 18 to 20 cm long and 6" to 7 cm broad in their 

 upper part, from where they gradually or cuneatcly narrow downward 

 to a very acute and distinctly ansate base; the upper part of the blade 

 is triangular and acuminate and acutely but irregularly toothed, with 

 the largest teeth aristate. Spikes eylindraceous. thick and short, and 



