150 ANNALS OF THE ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN, CALCUTTA. K. macrocarpa. 
spinulous externally; the lower spathes are 15—20 cm. long; the upper gradually 
smaller. The spikes are very thick and relatively short, 12—14 cm. long, blunt at 
apex, very closely covered with flowers so as to conceal entirely the spathels ; 
just at the time of blooming the spikes are 3—3'5 cm. in diameter, but only about 
25 cm. after the fall of the corollas; it is at this period that they assume a 
squarrose appearance; thé spathels are large, 1 em. long and about as broad, 
dry, papery-membranous, concave, very broadly triangular in their upper halves, 
acute, frequently split longitudinally, finely striate, and often shortly connate at the 
base by their margins. The floral bracteoles are narrow, elongate, very slightly 
faleate, striate, covered densely at apex and on the keeled back with  paleaceous, 
not woolly, hairs. Flowers relatively large, 15—16 mm. long, arranged in several 
longitudinal series (about 15), protruding, during the anthesis, by the full length 
of the corolla beyond their respective spathels; the calyx is 5'5—7 mm. long, 
oblong, attenuate a little at the base, deeply parted into 3 oblong, concave, very 
blunt, thinly cartilaginous lobes; the corolla is two and a half times as long as 
the calyx, when in the bud and when fully developed is clavate, 5 mm. broad, 
rounded on the top, parted down to about the middle into 3 oblong or spoon- 
shaped, thickish, cartilaginous, very obtuse, strongly striately veined segments; it is 
fleshy and marcescent in its lower tubular part; the stamens are inserted at the 
throat of the corolla at the beginning of its tubular part, where the filaments are 
united together, and form a ring or collar, crowned by 6 thick and short teeth; 
the anthers are erect, obsoletely apiculate, broadly linear, 5 mm. long, auricled at 
the base; the ovary is elongate-ovoid, and*narrows gradually above to a conspicuous 
rigid style, angular, deeply grooved longitudinally and ending in 3 subulate, very 
sharp, connivent stigmas, which protrude beyond the throat of the corolla and 
reach to about midway of the anthers. Fruits, relatively lavge (the largest known 
in the genus), obovoid-turbinate, broadest in their upper third part, and thence 
gradually tapering to a rather narrow base, which is rendered more or less 
obtusely angular by their mutual pressure; they are broadly conical above and 
end in a slender, rigid, pungent beak; they measure 4 cm: in length, including 
the beak, and 2—2°5 cm. in diameter; the scales are in 18 longitudinal series, are 
glossy, slightly convex, not or only very faintly grooved along the centre. spadi- 
ceous in their posticous part, with the margins and apices chestnut brown, 
and the latter broad, rounded or slightly produced, lacerate-toothed, not very 
appressed. The scaly epicarp on the whole is rather resistent (not brittle) and 
includes a rather abundant mesocarp, spongy in the dry condition. The seed, 
smaller than would be expected -from the size of the entire fruits, is 17—20 
mm. long, 11—13 mm. broad, irregularly ovoid, narrowing a little above, acute 
or bluntish at apex, rounded at the base, and has the surface slightly uneven; 
albumen homogeneous, very hard; the integument penetrates deeply into the 
middle of the albumen in the form of a very narrow lamella running along the 
whole of the raphal side; embryo in the centre of the antiraphal side, relatively 
large, 3 mm. long, 2 mm. broad. 
HaBrrAr.—Borneo. It was collected with mature fruits in July 1908 by 
‘ Dr. H. Winkler, No. 2777 between Kundim Baru and Batu Babi in the S.-E. of 
