134 ANNALS OF THE ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN, CALCUTTA. K. laciniosa. 
point of the centre, the true apex, being longer than the others ; transverse- veinlets 
much interrupted, and not very prominent. The largest leaflets are 20—30 and at 
times as much as 40 cm. long, and 15—20 cm. broad; those of the lower part 
of every leaf are usually as long, but narrower than those above; the largest 
and broadest are those of the middle. The anse are very conspicuous, very 
strongly flattened, and almost laminar, 15—20 mm. up to 3 cm. long, and 4 mm. 
broad, glabrous or nearly so. Inflorescence large,. divided into several secondary or 
tertiary spike-bearing branches 20—30 cm. long; spathes tubular-infundibuliform, 
truncate or produced above into a short triangular limb, usually smooth, at times 
slightly prickly, at first entire, but at the fruiting stage more or less split. The 
spikes are alternate, 3—5 on each branch, have a conspicuous tomentose appearance, 
the tip only of the spathels being visible outside the dense wool of the flower 
bracteoles; are usually 8—10 em. long, at times shorter, and 13—14 mm. broad, 
and 7 mm. without the flowers; spathels very broad, strongly striately-veined 
connate by their margins, almost entirely immersed in the wool of the bracteoles 
and having only their small traingular apex very shortly prolueed beyond the wool 
which is very'copious in the two principal floral braeteules. Flowers arranged in 12 
longitudinal series; the full grown buds are oblong. obtuse, very obsoletly trigonous 
or subterete, 6 mm. long, 2°5 mm. broad; the calyx is cyathiform, attenuate to the 
base, striately veined, divided down to about the middle into 3 very broad acute 
teeth ; its mouth remains at a level with the wool of the braeteoles ; the corolla 
is three times, or nearly so, as long as the calyx, deeply divided into 3 carti- 
laginous cymbiform acute segments, finely-striate outside; the stamens have thick 
and short triangular filaments, united to the short undivided basal part of the 
corolla; anthers long-sagittate, acute; ovary ovoid, narrowing above to a conical 
sulcate acute style, reaching the bases of the anthers. The fruit is obovoid, and 
is attenuate a little at the base, is rounded above and surmounted by a small 
pungent, 1°5 mm. long beak, is 16-17 mm. long (including the beak) and 11 mm. 
broad; the scales are arranged in 15 longitudinal series, subsquarrose, or having 
the apices not very appressed, are slightly convex, faintly and broadly grooved 
along the centre, of a cinnamon brown colour in their posticous part, thinner, and 
‘ of a lighter colour anticously, and marked with a darker intramarginal line near 
the apices, the margins conspicuously ciliate-fringed. Seed globular-ovoid, 10—11 mm. 
long, 8 mm. broad, equally rounded at both ends, the surface slightly uneven or 
rimulose or very obsoletely tubercled; the intrusion of the integument is very 
large; albumen ruminate. 
Haprrat.—Tenasserim, Andamans and Nieobars, Sumatra, Indo-China (?). Griffith 
established this species on specimens collected in woods along the sea-shores of 
the Islands of the Mergui Archipelago. These specimens exactly correspond with 
some (sterile) collected by Brandis at Salween in N. Tenasserim. It seems a 
rather common plant in the Andamans, and in the Nicobars. From the Andamans 
L.have seen the specimens referred by Kurz to K. scaphigera’ (my description of 
the fruit is derived from these). In the South Andamans specimens were gathered 
by Didrichsen at Sambalong (Galathea-Expedit, 1845-47—Herb. Haun.); on the 
Putatan stream by Prain’s Collector (No, 58 in Herb. Cale. and Becc. and No. 49 
without precise locality); in the Jarawakhari Jungle by King’s Collector (No. 110 
