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Flowers small, rose-coloured, in short, cylindrical, pale rose- 

 coloured, villous spikes, about 3 or more times shorter than the 

 narrow, variously ruptured, partial spathes. Calyx divided to the 

 base, sepals obovate-oblong, about 1^ lin. long; corolla nearly 

 twice as long, rigid, rose-coloured. 



Drupes in dense heads, obovoid, apiculate or almost acuminate, 

 1 inch long or more, densely retrorsely scaled, 3-1 -celled with as 

 many arillate seeds, the scales brown, rather rigid, cordate-ovate, 

 only the upper parts exposed and terminating in a reflexed brittle 

 bristle up to 1^ lin. long. 



Habitat. — Frequent in the tropical forests all over Pegu and 

 Martaban down to Tenasserim, Penang and Singapore; Siam ; Banca. 



Flowers during the cold season ; fi-uit ripens in June and July. 



Illustration. — The specimen of Zalacca u-alUcliiana which is 

 figured on PI. C. may be seen in the Botanic Gardens of Sibpur. 

 The photograph was supplied by Major Gage. 



ZALACCA BECCARII, Hook. f. in Hook. Fl. Brit. Ind. VI, 474. 



Leaflets 18-24 inches long, 1^ inches broad, apparently equidis- 

 tant, strict, concolorous, shining on both surfaces, elongate-ensiform, 

 acuminate, tips shortly filiform, margins with strong straight setse 

 almost throughout their length, mid-rib stout, lateral slender, all 

 with few scattered, black, ^-^ inch long bristles ; very young leaf- 

 lets pale beneath, with very long, slender, pale bristles on the ribs ; 

 rhachis with short, hooked, black claws. 



Female spadix 3 feet long or more ; rhachis brown woolly ; 

 lower spathe 1 foot long, upper 4-6 inches long. Spikes 2^ inch 

 long, I inch in diameter ; bracts wooll}'' ; flowers \ inch long ; 

 sepals and petals subequal, broadl}^ ovate, acute. 



Fruit apparently small, fruit-scales pale chestnut, with broad bases 

 and paler recurved spinous tips. 



Can easily be distinguished from Z. iccdlichiana by the long, 

 strict leaflets with long bristles, short tips, and margins armed 

 throughout their length. (Hooker). 



Habitat. — Rangoon. 



KOBTHALSIA, Bl. in Rumph. II, 166, t. 130, fig. 2. 



(After Peter Korthals, a botanist of Haarlem, who explored the East Indies.) 



Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm. Ill, 210, 343. t. 17l\ fig. 1.; Bl. Rumph. HI, 

 t. 157, B {Ceratolobus). ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. Ill, 74. 750, Suppl. 591. ; Griff. 

 Palms Brit. Ind. 26, t. 183, 184 {Calamosa(/us).; Walp. Ann. Ill, 492.; 

 Knrz For. Fl. II, 512. ; Wendl. Bot. Zeitg. 1859, 174. ; Becc. Males. I, 

 87 ; Benth. & Hook. Gen. PI. Ill, 11, 932, 104. ; Hook. Fl. Brit. Ind. VI, 

 474. 



Scandent, spinous, leaves pinnatisect ; leaflets more or less 

 CTineate or trapezoid and erose ; rhachis flagelliferous ; petiole 

 short, sheath often produced into a large ligule (ochrea). 



