112 ANNALS OF THE ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN, CALCUTTA. K. .scaphigera. 
DESCRIPTIONS OF SS A 
1. KomrHALsIA SCAPHIGERA Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm. iii, 211 and 373, t. Z. VIII, 
f. II, III; Miquel Fl. Ind. Bat. iii, 750 and De Palm. Arc. Ind. 26; Hassk. Cat. 
Hort. Bogor. 1866. 73; Bece. Malesia. ii, 67. t. 5; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vi, 
475; Ridley Mat. Fl. Mal. Penins. 11, 216. 
K. Lobbiana H. Wendl. in Bot. Zeit. xvii, 174; Miq. ll. cc. 
‘Calamosagus . scaphiger Griff. Palms Brit. Ind. t. CLXXXIV-A. 
C. Wallichiaefolius Griff. ex. Mart. l. c. 211, non-Griff in Cale. Journ. Nat. 
Hist. v, 25 (vide Bece. Malesia l. e. p. 68). 
Descriprion.—High scandent and slender. Sheathed stem usually 10-12 
occasionally 5-7, or at most 17 mm. in diameter. Leaf-sheaths armed with 
scattered, short, conical, horizontal prickles. ^ Ocrea inflated, cymbiform-elliptical, 
oblong or ovate, closely and almost entirely embracing the base of the next 
sheath and often distinctly pedicellate; in the intermediate leaves the ocrea is 2'5- 
5'5 em. long and 12-25 mm. broad; in the leaves nearer the inflorescence it is 
shorter and less embracing; it is thinly coriaceous and armed similarly to the 
sheath with short conical prickles. Leaves of the lower part of the stem non- 
cirriferous, 30-45 em. long in the pinniferons part, ending in a cuneate- 
Habelliform leaflet, and having the petiole slender and elongate; the intermediate 
leaves are cirriferous, 40-50 cm. long in the pinniferous part and end in a very 
slender and clawed flagellum aboît as long, or somewhat longer; the petiole is 
very variable in length. from 3 to 12 cm. long, flattened, biconvex with sharp, 
more or less prickly edges and backs; the rhachis is armed irregularly ^ with 
scattered or 2-3-nate claws. Leaflets not numerous, usually 4, more rarely 4-6, 
on each side of the rhachis, subopposite or alternate, elongately {cuneate towards 
an acute base, generally inequilateral in their upper part, with the anterior margins 
praemorse and more or less produced to a caudate apex, rigid, green above, paler 
or (especially when young) whitish beneath; they have usually 7 primary nerves, 
and very numerous, fine, transverse veinlets; in intermediate leaves the leaflets are 
12—23 cm. long, and 4—7 cm. wide at the beginning of the toothed margins, 
rarely more; the lower leaflets are usually smaller and narrower than the upper. 
The leaves of the upper part of the plant, especially those nearer to the inflore- 
scence, are smaller then the preceding, and have smaller and more distinctly 
ansate leaflets, the ansae being very strongly flattened, and sometimes up to 8—10 
amm. long; in the intermediate leaves the ansae of the leaflets are often very 
short, and in their axillas a small callosity or cushion, having a transverse furrow, 
is to be found. The young plants, about to form a stem, are caespitose with 
several leaves, which have a very long petiole and a deeply forked elongately 
cuneate-flabelliform blade, 30—40 cm. long, chalky white or slightly ferruginous 
beneath ; its divisions are 4-5 cm. broad and have 7—9 costae. The inflorescence 
is diffusedly panicled, apparently 50—60 em. long (or at times more?) twice 
branched, each primary branch starting from the sheath of a reduced leaf, which 
is furnished with its inflated ocrea. often, however a rudimentary one; at times, 
and especially at the base of the uppermost branches, the leaf is represented by 
a simply clawed, flagelliform rhachis, to which a few leaflets are attached. The 
