476 CLXIII. PALMED. (Beccari & Hook, f.) [Korthalsia. 



straight spines ; rachis and flagellum with reversed cl;iws. Spikes 3-4 in., tawny- 

 tomentose, very compact ; bracts smooth, a little longer than the villous bracteoles. 

 Fruit i in. long, obovoid, mucronate ; scales with a broadly lacerate pale brown 

 membranous border. Descr. from Kurz (of his scaphigera} in For. Fl. I. c. referred 

 here by Beccari. 



6. XL* ferox, Becc. Males, ii. 73 ; leaflets shortly petiolulate trapezoid 

 about as long as broad pale beneath obtusely erosely toothed, sheath and 

 ochrea thickly armed especially on the petiolar side with short spines, 

 above fibrous-reticulate glabrous or finely scurfy. 



Var. mafayana, Becc. mss. ; spines .of the sheath and ochrea shorter, and covering 

 the ventral face of the latter. 



Var. malayana, PEBAK, at Larut (Hort. Culc. 6563) ; at Gunong Tjick, Sept., 

 1844, Scortechini. 



I have seen no specimen. The type is Bornean. 



7. XL. polystachya, Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm. iii. 210, t. 172, f. 1 ; 

 leaflets cuneiform or obliquely trapezoid glaucous beneath obtusely 

 toothed, sheath and ochrea unarmed, spikes long slender flexuous. Miq. 

 Fl. Ind. Bat. iii. 77 ; Becc. Males, ii. 74. Calamoisagus polystachyus, 

 Griff, ex Mart. I. c. 211. C. ochriger, Griff. Palms Brit. Ind. p. x. t. 216, 

 f. 1. 



MALACCA., Griffith. 



Stem very slender, about in. diam., including the sheatbs. vn " Leaves about 2 ft., 

 including the flagellum, subsessile ; leaflets 10-12, irregularly alternate, t'erruginously 

 woolly, shortly petiolulate, 6 by 3 in. ; rachis and flagellum arn.ed with claws, young 

 rusty -pubescent ; ochrea short, truncate. Spadices from the terminal axils, together 

 forming a panicle 3-3 ft. long, clothed with long closely appressed spathes ; branches 

 a span to a foot long. Spikes 5-7 in. ; peduncle with a tertiary spathe ; lower 

 bracts empty ; upper broad, 1-fld., and filled with stout wool. Descr. from Griffith's 

 C. ochriger. Beccari thinks that Kurz is mistaken in uniting this with K. rigida, 

 Blume. 



8. XL. tenuissima, Becc. Mahs. ii. 275 ; very slender, leaflets 3-6 

 obovate or oblanceolate acuminate subacutely toothed pale beneath, sheath 

 sparingly armed, ochrea unarmed, spikes few, spathes tubular inflated 

 dilated above. 



MALAY PENINSULA ; Perak, at Larut, King's Collector (4057). 



Leaves with a very slender petiole ; leaflets 1-4 in. long by 1-1 broad; petiole 

 very short, base callous swollen. Spikes apparently glabrous from the bracts 

 exceeding the calyx. 



9. XL. flag-ellaris, Miq. in Journ. Bot. Neerl. 15; Fl. Ind. Bat. 



Suppl. 255, 591 ; leaflets numerous narrow elongate-cuneate rusty pubes- 

 cent beneath acutely erosely toothed, sheath armed dorsally unarmed on 

 the petiolar side, ochrea armed only ventrally, spikes tomentose. K. 

 angustifolia, Miq. Palm. Archip. Ind. 15, 26 (excl. sp. from Borneo and 

 var. 0) (not of Blume). 



MALAY PENINSULA; Perak, Scortechini; at Assam Kumbung, Wray 

 (n. 3127). 



Resembles in the form of its leaflets and their colouring beneath Z. rubiginosa, 

 which has longer straighter less cuneate leaflets with short not subulate teeth. 



