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serving as a nidus for ants (ochrea), petiole usually short, leaflets rhom- 

 boid, cuneate or lanceolate cuneate. Inflorescence sub-terminal of 

 several branches with tubular spathes and pendulous cylindric dense 

 spikes, covered with short truncate rounded bracts thickly woolly inside. 

 Flower spike bisexual. Calyx saucer-shaped or cupular, three lobed, 

 hidden in the wool. Corolla with a short tube and oblong petals. 

 Stamens with short filaments adnate to the mouth of the corolla tube. 

 Anthers longer, oblong. Pistil shorter, ovary conoid, scaly 1-3 celled. 

 Style one conic. Fruit one seeded oblong or ovoid, scaly, scales reg- 

 ularly arranged of moderate size. Seed erect, ruminate. Species 

 about 20. Burmah, Andamans and the Malay Archipelago. Ochrea 

 inflated. 



Ochrea elliptic, black spiny ... ••• 1. K. cchino»ietra. 



Ochrea cymbiform thorny. 



Leaflets rhomboid ••• ... 2. K. scaphiycra. 



Leaflets linear-lanceolate ... ... ••■ 3. K. Seortechpiii. 



Ochrea cylindric. 



Leaflets cuneate rhomboid ... ... 4. K. Machadonis. 



Ochrea not inflated. 



Stems very large, sheath armed. Leaves 

 cuneate rhomboid. 

 Ochrea short. Petiole callused at base 

 Ochrea 5 inches long. Petiole not callused ••• 



Stem moderately stout. Leaflets trapezoid 



Stem very slender, leaflets obovate 



Sheath unarmed, spikes slender ••• 



Leaflets narrow elongate, 3 inches long • • • 



12-18 inches covered beneath with red 

 pubescence 



1. K. echinometea, Becc. Malesia II. G6, t. 7. Stem about 100 

 feet long i inch through. Leaves 8 to 10 feet long. Ochrea oblong 

 about 4 inches in length, li inch through armed with slender black 

 needle-like spines, 3 inches in length, petiole spiny on the edge leaflets 

 about 26 in number, linear lanceolate acuminate, over 12 inches long, 1 

 inch wide, backs white, occasionally sparingly setulose above. Flagel- 

 lum long, slender. Inflorescence large and stout, branches 6 inches 

 and more long, stout ; spathes tubular, mouth with a large lanceolate 

 limb, spikes 4 to 6 inches long, i inch thick pendent. Bracts sub- 

 orbicular ribbed, densely covered by the ferruginous wool. Calyx lobes, 

 ovate subacute, small. Petals orbicular. Fiuit oblong, beaked dis- 

 tinctly cinnamon brown \ inch long. Scales rhomboid blunt, elevated 

 in the middle, margins lacerate. Becc. Hook. hi. Fl. Brit. Ind. VI. 471. 



