128 ANNALS OF THE ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN. CALCUTTA. K. merrillaz. 
centre ; scales in 15 longitudinal series, of a uniform einnamon-brown colour, 5 mm. 
broad and about as long, polished, strongly convex, deeply grooved along the centre. 
the apex obtuse and very appressed, the margins very narrowly scarious and incon- 
spicuously erosely-ciliolate. Seed ovoid, equally rounded at both ends, 10—12 mm. 
long, 8—9 mm. broad, detachable from the pericarp, having a glossy slightly uneven, 
(not pitted) surface, only marked longitudinally and slightly with some impressed 
veins; there is a narrow groove along the raphal side and an intrusion of the 
integument deep and globular; the albumen is deeply ruminate; the embryo is 
placed in the centre of the side opposite to the intrusion of the integument. 
Hasirar.—According to Miquel, this species was found growing near Tapos in 
Java. There are several places in Java having that name, but probably here it 
means Tapos in Bantam, as other plants collected by Junghuhn bear this locality. 
Nobody has as yet found this palm again in Java. 
I have drawn the description of this species from specimens in flower and 
fruit, collected from plants cultivated at Buitenzorg, precisely under the name of 
K. Junghuhnu. 
OpsERVATIONS.—In the vegetative organs K. Junghuhnii is so similar to K. 
rigida, that when not bearing flowers or fruits, it is nearly impossible to distin- 
guish the one from the other. The inflorescence of K. Junghuhnit is however 
considerably smaller than that of K. rigida and has fewer and shorter 
branches and spikes. The flowers in K. Junghuhnii are somewhat larger than in 
K. rigida, and the corolla is relatively shorter; but the principal differences between 
the two are in the fruit; that of K. Junghuhnii being several times larger than 
that of K. rigida, of a quite different shape and with much larger scales. K. 
Junghuhnit resembles also in its leaves K. debilis, but in the latter the albumen 
is homogeneous. i 
The diagnostic characters of K. Junghuhni are the slender stem; the leaves 
having 5—6 elongately cuneate-rhomboidal leaflets on each side of the rhachis; 
the ocreae 2—4 cm. long, having a short coriaceous base, and a fibrous and 
perishable upper part; the inflorescences composed of but few spike-bearing branches 
and these short, and bearing 3—4 spikes only; the spikes slender, of a glabrous 
appearance, having the spathels produced above the wool of the flower-bracteoles ; 
the fruit globose! or  globose-turbinate, 16—18 by 14—15 mm., with the scales 
strongly convex, and with almost entire margins ; the seed ruminate. 
PLate 79.--Korthalsia Junghuhnii .Mig.—Portion of the stem and leaves from 
a full grown plant; a good portion of the spadix in flower; specimen from ‘a 
plant cultivated at Buitenzorg (Herb. Beccari). 
Puare 80.—Korthalsia Junghuhnii Mig.—Portion of the stem with a leaf entire; 
the end of a früiting plant with the spadix entire. Specimen from a plant culti- 
vated at Buitenzorg (Herb. Beccari). 
13. KomrHarsiA MerrILLIT Becc. n. sp. 
Description.—Very slender and not very high scandent (3—5 m. high—Merrill). 
Sheathed stem 8—10 mm. in diameter. Leaf-sheaths fugaciously scaly-furfuraceous, 
armed rather closely with scattered ascendent or spreading light-coloured, slender 
