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Korthalsia.] PALMA. 533 
1. K. scaphigera, Mart.—An evergreen large seandent rattan 
palm, the canes up to $ an in. in diameter, the young leaves 
beneath fugaceously white-tomentose; leaves pinnate, 2-4 ft. 
long, the rachis sparingly armed with short, simple, sharp, re- 
trorse spines and terminating in a long recurved-thorny tendril, 
the petiole 4-2 ft. long, irregularly beset with thin, sharp, 2- 
4 lin. long rather straight spines, the sheaths minutely brown- 
se (in young plants sparingly prickly), dissolving along 
their margins into fibres embracing the stem; pinne at base 
contracted in a compressed petiolule, alternately somewhat 
approximated, plaited, broadly rhomboid-ovate, the upper ones 
cuneate-rhomboid, acuminate, about from the middle irregularly 
and sharply erose-toothed (the teeth formed by the more or less 
subulate-excurrent veinlets), many-nerved, 4-7 in. long, the 
terminal segment much broader; spadices long and pendulous, 
terminal, the tubular spathes (in fruit) smooth, brown; catkins 
very compact and terete, on a short sheathed peduncle, densely 
tawny-tomentose, 3-4 in. long, about 4 lin. thick; braets very 
broad, rounded or almost acute, smooth, a little longer than the 
densely villous bracteoles; female calyx rigid, more than 4 lin. 
long, fibrous-ciliate ; corolla nearly 2 lin. long, very rigid-coriaceous, 
deeply 3-cleft, the tube very short; drupes obovoid, mucronate, 
in. long, retrorsely imbricate-scaled, 1-seeded; scales rigid, 
trapezoid-ovate, longitudinally impressed, greenish, towards the 
apex brownish, bordered by a pale brown, broadly lacerate, narrow, 
bluntish membrane. 
Pr 7i3-—Common all over the Andamans, especially in the tropical forests.— 
2. K. laciniosa, Mart.—An evergreen large scandent rattan 
palm, the young leaves beneath covered with a short, white, very 
dense, very fugaceous tomentum ; leaves pinnate, the rachis termi- 
nating in a prickly tendril, petiole armed with scattered, hooked, 
short thorns, white, with a dark point, sheaths usually fibrous- 
dissolving, armed with a few short straight spines and fugaceously 
steyish-tomentose ; pinnae rhomboid to cuneate-rhomboid, con- 
racted in a compressed petiolule, 4-8 in. long, acuminate, many- 
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