148 ANNALS OF THE ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN, CALCUTTA. K. robusta. 
24. KorrHatsia ROBUSTA Bl, Rumphia, ii, 70. (partly as to the leaves) t. ^ . 
f. 3, and analysis 1—9 ; Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm. iii, 211 (9nd edit.) 
t. 172 III (ic. it. e Bl); Mia. Fl. Ind. Bat, in, 76; Prodr. Fl. Sum. 
255; De Palm Arc. Ind. 26; Walp. Ann. iii, 492; Bece. Malesia, 
i TR. 
K. hispida Becc. Malesia, n, 71—? 
Description.—Apparently of middling size. Stem-leaf-sheaths, and leaves unknown 
but probably much like*the corresponding parts of K. macrocarpa. The spikes are 
eylindraceous, large and thick, blunt at apex, 21 cm. long in Blume’s figure; after 
the fall of the corollas the spathes remain visible, and not being appressed, the 
spikes assume a squarrose appearance and measure nearly 3 cm. in diameter. The 
spathels are large, 12—13 mm. long, and about as broad, dry, papery, finely striate, 
concave, very broadly triangular in their upper halves, which soon split longitudinally 
. and appear lacerated. The floral bracteoles are slightly falcate, covered densely 
at apex and on the keeled back with paleaceous, not woolly, hairs. Flowers 
relatively large, 15 mm. long, protruding slightly from their respective  spathes ; 
the calyx, 6'5 mm. long, persistent after the fall of the corolla, oblong or obovoid, 
deeply parted into 3 oblong, concave, very blunt, cartilaginous lobes; the corolla is 
two and a half times as long as the calyx, clavate and rounded above when in 
bud, parted down to about the middle into 3 oblong or spoon-shaped cartilaginous 
obtuse strongly-striate ségments ; in its lower part it is fleshy, tubular and closely 
sheathes the ovary and the style, but soon goes to decay, whereas the upper part 
falls down immediately after the anthesis; the stamens are inserted about mid- 
way of the corolla at its throat, where they form a thick ring or collar, crowned 
by 6 thick and short teeth, but leaving a central opening for the passage of the 
style; the anthers are broadly linear, auricled at the base, blunt or only very 
obsoletely apiculate; the ovary is ovoid, and rather suddenly attenuate into a 
rigid angular and longitudinally grooved style ending in 3 short, acute connivent 
stigmas, which stop just level with the opening in the centre of the stamina 
ring, not even attaining the bases of the. anthers. 
Hasitat.—Blume writes that the spike, upon which the species must be consi- 
dered as established, was collected by Prætorius in Palembang, in S.-E. Sumatra. 
OssERvaTIONs.—A. robusta was established by Blume from mixed material, 
consisting of portions of leaf-sheaths and non-cirriferous leaves (which consequently 
beloged to juvenile plants) derived from Java, Sumatra and Borneo, and of the 
flowering spike mentioned above. I have examined this material of Blume, and 
apparently only one leaf, coming from Sumatra, belongs to K. robusta ; another leaf, 
from a Javan plant, most probably belongs to K. Teysmanniü, to which also, apparently, 
belongs the ocrea attributed by Blume to K. robusta. Considering the great affinit 
of K. robusta with K. macrocarpa and K. squarrosa it is to be presumed it would 
be provided with the peculiar kind of ocrea proper to the latter species. I think 
that K. hispida Becc. from W. Sumatra, of which the flowers and fruits are 
unknown and which is represented by specimens of juvenile plants only (see 
K. hispida Becc, among the doubtful species‘ ir most probably to be reduced to 
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