98 ANNALS OF THE ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN, CALCUTTA. Z. scortechinii. 
narrowing towards both ends, the base rather acute and considerably curved, the 
upper end falcately acuminate to a fine tip ; the main nerves or costae are 8, 
smooth, slender, but sharp on the upper surface ; there are 3 rather distinct 
secondary nerves on each side of the mid-costa ; transverse veinlets rather sharp, 
much interrupted, 2—3 mm. apart ;' margins sparingly spinulous and only from the 
middle upwards ; the intermediate leaflets are 45 cm. long 3—3°5 cm. wide. The 
fruiting spadiæ is very much like that of Z. conferta, but smaller’; the spikes are 
smaller, 8—11 em. long, 17 mm. in diameter. The female and neuter flowers are 
the same. The ‘frui is apparently smaller, and more regularly globose than in 
Z. conferta, 2—2'5 cm. in diameter ; the scales are very neatly grooved along the 
centre. The seed (not quite mature) is discoid. The pericarp seems thinner than 
in Z. conferta. 
Hasirat.—Collected by Father Scorteckini in the district of Perak in the Malay 
Peninsula ; the precise locality not stated. è 
OnsERVATIONS.— The description of this new species is derived from a portion 
of a spadix with nearly mature fruits accompanied by portions of a leaf ; the 
whole found among the Palms of Scortechini in a separate parcel, bearing as the 
only note: “Udang” which probably is the native name of the plant. I have 
little or no doubt that the fragments of a leaf accompanying the spadix do really 
beloag to this plant, although the leaf differs considerably from that of Z. 
conferta, whereas the spadix is very similar.  Z. Scortechini differs in many, 
respects from Z. conferta, viz., in being a smaller plant, with leaves having the 
petiole armed with short, single, scattered spines, but more especially in having 
distinctly sigmoid leaflets and also in its’ smaller spadix, with smaller and 
rounder fruits. 
Prare 61.—Zalacca Scortechinii Bece.—An almost entire petiole, and inter- 
mediate portion of a leaf ; spadix with not quite mature fruits, From Scortechini’s 
specimen in Herb. Beccari. 
Latin Dragnosis—Zalacca Scortechinii Bece. sp. nov. Minor ; frondium petiolo 
valde elongato, spinis. paucis remotis sparsis raro confluentibus armato ; segmentis 
numerosis, aequidistantibus, utrinque viridibus, falcato-sigmoideis,  3-costulatis ; 
fruetibus minoribus rotundatis. 
