Korthalsia.] ■ olxiii. PiLMBa;. (Beccari & Hook, f.) 475 



Stem about f in. diam. Leaves flagelliferous ; leaflets opposite, 12-15 in. long, 

 6-8 broad, acuminate, green and shining above, 3-4-nerved ; petiole about 20 in. ; 

 spines short ; rachis with stout claws ; sheath armed with short flattened spines 

 almost enveloped by the ochrea, wliich is 5-6 in. long, and armed with scattered 

 spines 2-3 in. long. — Flower and fruit unknown. 



2. K. scaphl^era, Mart. Rist. Nat. Palm. iii. 211 ; oohrea cymbi- 

 form lanceolate armed with short conical spines, leaflets rhomboid-obovate 

 or -cnneate acuminate erosely lobulate above the middle. Miq. Fl. Ind. 

 Bat. iii. 750 ; Palm Arohip. Ind. 26 ; Becc. Males. 67, t. 5. K. Lobbiana, 

 S. Wendl. in Bot. Zeii. xvii. 174 ; Miq. II. cc. K. rostrata, Blwme, Bumph. 

 ii. 168. P Calamosagus scaphigera, Palms Brit. Ind. 30, t. 184 A ; ICurz 

 For. Fl. ii. 513. 0. wallichimfolius. Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm. Ic. 211. 



Malacca, Griffith. Peeak, King's Collector (6833, 8144). — Distbib. 

 Sumatra. 



Stem slender, J— ^ in. diam. Leaves 2i ft. ; leaflets distant, sessile, glaucous 

 beneath ; sheath armed with a few scattered conical prickles and generally split 

 along the back into a fibrous network ; ochrea forming the upper -|, boat-shaped, 

 closely half embracing the next sheath ; petiole roundish, back armed with claws. — 

 Descr. from Griffith. 



3. K. Scortechinii, Becc. mss. ; ochrea elongate armed with short 

 scattered spines, leaflets linear or ouneately oblanceolate 8-10 times longer 

 than broad. 



Pekak, Scortechini. 



Leaflets 14-16 by 1^-2 in., alternate and subopposite, equidistant, oblanceolate, 

 white beneath, 5-7-nerved, acutely toothed ; sheath and ochrea (6-8 in. long) armed. 

 — Distinguished from Z. scaphigera by the much longer ochrea, and more numerous 

 narrower leaflets. 



4. K. xcallicMaefolia, H. Wendl. in KercJioff Palm. 248 ; leaflets 

 many broadly ouneately obovate obtusely erosely toothed as long or twice 

 as long as broad. Becc. Males, ii. 76. Calamosagus wallichisefolius, 

 Chiff. in Gale. Journ. Nat. Mist. v. 24; Palms Brit. Ind. t. 184. 0. 

 harinEefolius, Griff. I. c. in text p. 29. 



Malacca (from the interior), Oriffit}h. 



A very little-known plant. Griffith describes the leaves as resembling those of 

 Z. laciniosa, but with less deep more obtuse incisions ; the spadix as covered with 

 long smooth spathes with lacerate mouths ; spikes (immature) a span long by i in. 

 diam. ; lateral pedicels plano-convex, bearing a long spathe about the middle, which 

 reaches the base of the spike ; braotese broad, longer than the dense wool. 



** Ochrea not inflated. 



5. K. laciniosa, Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm. iii. 212; leaflets rhomboid 

 ovate or trapezoid about as long as broad acutely erosely toothed, ochrea 

 dilacerate sparingly armed, spikes tomentose. Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 

 xliii. pi. ii. (1874) 207; Becc. Males, ii. 74 (excl. pi. Balangore). K. scaphi- 

 gera, Kurz I. c. 206 (exel. all syns.) t. 20, 21 ; For. Fl. ii. 513 {not of Mart.). 

 K. andamanensis, Becc. Males, ii. 76. Calamosagus laciniosus, Oriff. im 

 Calc. Jowrn. Nat. Hist. v. 23, t. 1 ; Palms Brit. Ind. 27, t. 183. 



BuEMA, the Andaman and Nicobae Isms. 



Stem slender, i in. diam. Leaves 2-4 ft. ; leaflets subapproximate, 4-7 in. long, 

 terminal broadest, fugaciously white tomentose beneath ; petiole 1^-2 ft., with 



