474 CLXiii. PALMES. (Beecari & Hook, f.) [Zalacca. 



Penang, Lewes, Wray (2435). 



Leaves 13-15 ft. ; petiole slender, trigonons, apparently armed with a simple row 

 of spines on each face ; leaflets equidistant, 20-22 by 2^ in., margins setose towards 

 the tips. Spadices much branched, less covered than usual in the genus by the 

 primary spathes ; branches entirely covered by loosely sheathing spathes ; young 

 spikes slender, looking as if annulate by the broad shallow bracts, glabrous exter- 

 nally. Males 3-4 in., slender, bracteoles obsolete or nearly so. Fern. fl. large, 

 oblique. Ovary strigose with erect stout hairs, ovoid. Fruit (accompanying Wray's 

 specimen) globose, 1 in. diam., suddenly contracted into a columnar beak i in. long, 

 clothed (including the beak) with small very dark brown scales in vertical series, 

 each with a short recurved setose tip, and an obtuse keel on the back. — " Erroneously 

 referred to Z. edulis in Malesia iii. 64." — O.B. 



6. Z. Beccarii, flbofc. /. ; leaflets strict concolorons elongate-en siform 

 acuminate, tips shortly filiform, margins spinulosely setose, costse 3 with 

 fev7 scattered long bristles beneath, rachis with short hooked black claws, 

 fern, spadix very long, rachis brown woolly, lower spathes very long, upper 

 twice as long as the large stout spikes, frnit-scales recurved spinescent. 



BANaoON, McLelland,. 



Leaflets apparently equidistant, 18-24 by 1^ in., shining on both surfaces, mar. 

 gins with strong straight setae almost throughout their length, mid-costa stout, 

 lateral slender j bristles ^— J in. long, black ; very young leaflets pale beneath with 

 very long slender pale bristles on the costse. Fern, spadix 3 ft. long or more ; 

 lower spathe 1 ft. loug ; upper 4-6 in. Spikes 2\ in. long, f in. diam. j bracts 

 woolly ; flowers J in. long ; sepals and petals subequal, broadly ovate, acute. Frwii 

 (much broken) apparently small ; scales pale chesnut, with broad bases and paler 

 recurved spinous tips. — Very distinct from Z. WalUchiana in the long strict leaflets 

 with long bristles, short tips, and margins armed throughout their length. 



26. KORTKAXiSXA, Blume. 



Scandent, spinous palms. Leaves pinnatisect ; leaflets more or less 

 cuneate or trapezoid and erose (except K. eehinomelra) ; rachis flagellife- 

 rous ; petiole short, sheath often produced into a large ligule (ochrea). 

 Spadix axillary, loosely branched, pendulous, sheathed with tubular per- 

 sistent spathes ; bracts membranous ; bracteoles reduced to hairs. Flowers 

 bisexual, crowded in cylindric catkin-like spikes ; sepals orbicular or 

 oblong ; petals ovate or lanceolate, valvate ; stamens 6 or more, filaments 

 short, anthers linear ; staminodes 6 or more ; ovary imperfectly 3-celled ; 

 ovules basilar. Fruit globose or ovoid, 1-seeded ; pericarp thin, tessellate 

 with recurved shining scales. Seed erect, top hoUowed, chalaza lateral ; 

 albumen ruminate; embryo ventral.— Species about 20, Indian and 

 Malayan. 



The swollen ochrese of the first section form nidi for ants. The species are very 

 imperfectly known. 



* Ochrea inflated. 



1. K. echinometra, Secc. Males, ii. 66, t. vii.; ochrea narrow 

 elliptic-lanceolate armed with long flattened black spines, leaflets very 

 narrowly linear-lanceolate finely acuminate mealy- white beneath more or 

 less toothed towards the tip. 



Pebak, Scortechini (n. 458''). — Distbib. Borneo. 



