152 ANNALS OF THE ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN, CALCUTTA. K. squarrosa. 
PLate 101.—Korthalsia macrocarpa Bece.—Portion of the fruiting panicle ; from 
Winkler’s No. 2777. Portion of a leaf from a middle-aged plant (note its extraordi- 
nary long ocrea); from Heyne’s No. 22 bis in Herb. Bece. 
Pirate 102.—Korthalsia macrocarpa Bece.—Sterile specimen from Heyne’s No. 2543, 
collected at Pontianak (Herb. Beccari). See also in the analytical plate IV the 
analyses of the flower and fruit of K. macrocarpa, figs.—6. 
Latin Diaenosis.—Korthalsia macrocarpa Becc. sp. nov. Mediocris; vaginis spinis 
nitidis nigrescentibus armatis, ocrea magna, elongata, superne attenuata in parte 
ventrali aperta, spiculis parvis nigris armata; segmentis longe ansatis, cuneato- 
rhombeis, subtus  albieantibus; spicis majusculis, squarrosis, spathellis glabris ; 
floribus pro rata majusculis, stigmatibus ex corolle fauce prodieuntibus et circiter 
dimidiam antherarum partem attingentibus ; fructibus magnis, obovato-turbinatis, rostro 
pungenti terminatis. 
26. KonrHaLsiA squarrosa Becc., Notes on Philip Palms in Philip. Journ. of 
- Sc. (Bot.) iv (1909) 620. 
Description.—Of middling size. Sheathed stem 20—22 mm. in diameter. Leaf 
sheaths armed, especially on the dorsal side, with! scattered, very slender blackish- 
lustrous spicule, 5—12 mm. long, resting each on a tuberculiform base. The ocrea (in 
one specimen) is 12 cm. long, not inflated, subeylindrical, narrowing very little above 
(not ass-ear like), truncate at apex, not clasping completely the sheath, being un- 
closed all along the ventral face, polished, chestnut-brown and dull inside, extern- 
ally straw-coloured and covered all over with very slender scattered spicule, simi- 
lar to those on the leaf sheaths, but very often longer; in old stems, the ocreæ 
are more or less destroyed by age. Leaves of the adult flowering plant rather large 
and cirriferous, about 70 cm. long in the pinniferous part; petiole 10—12 cm. long, 
8—10 mm. broad, more or less prickly, complanate, flat above, slightly convex be- 
neath; the margins rather sharp; the rhachis armed beneath with scattered, back- 
tipped claws. Leaflets 6—7 on each side of the rhachis, green above, conspicuously 
white beneath, rhomboidal (15—18 em. long, 10—12 em. wide) or cuneately rhomboi- 
dal (20—25 em. long and 7—8 cm. wide), with 11—13 main radiating nerves; the 
upper margins are irregularly and rather sharply erose-toothed. the teeth terminating 
the main nerves being very acute and often aristate; the two lowest leaflets in 
every leaf are considerably smaller than the others; the ansoe are rather short 
(5—10 m. long) and strongly flattened. The inflorescence, of which only a few spikes 
were preserved, is apparently very much like that of K. macrocarpa, and is com- 
posed of spikes in pairs at each, secondary branch. The spikes are cylindraceous, 
thick and short, with a blunt apex, 10—11 cm. long (not 20 cm. as has been 
stated in the Ph. Journ. of Sc. |. e) and with the flowers 25—27 mm. in dia- 
meter; after the fall of the corollas the spathels remain visible, and these not 
being appressed, the spikes assume a squarrose .appearance and measure in that 
condition 2 em. in diameter ; the spathels are large, 8—9 mm. long, dry, papery- 
membranous, concave, broadly triangular in their upper part, acute, usually split 
