476 CLxiii. palmej:. (Beccari & Hook, f.) {Kortlialda. 



straight spines ; rachia and flagellura with reversed cliiws. Spikes 3-4 in., tawny- 

 tomentoae, very compact ; bracts smooth, a little longer than the villous braeteoles. 

 Fruit ^ in. long, oboroid, mucronate ; scales with a broadly lacerate pale brown 

 membranous border. — Desor. from Kurz (of his scaphigera) in For. Fl. I. u. referred 

 here by Beccari. 



6. K. ferox, Becc. Males, ii. 73 ; leaflets shortly petiolnlate trapezoid 

 about as long as broad pale beneath obtusely erosely toothed, sheath and 

 ochrea thickly armed especially on the petiolar side with shortispines, 

 above fibrous-retioulate glabrous or finely scurfy. 



Var. maJayana, Becc. mss. ; spines of the sheath and ochrea' shorter, and covering 

 the ventral face of the latter. 



Var. malm/ana, Pbeak, at Larut (Hort. Calc. 6563) ; at Gunong Tjick, Sept., 

 1844, Scortechini. 



I have seen no specimen. The type is Bornean. 



7. K. polystachya, Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm. iii. 210, t. 172, f. 1 ; 

 leaflets cuneiform or obliquely trapezoid glaucous beneath obtusely 

 toothed, sheath and ochrea unarmed, spikes long slender flexuons. Miq, 

 Fl. Ind. Bat. iii. 77 ; Becc. Males, ii. 74. Calamosagus polystachyus, 

 Oriff. ex Mart. I. c. 211. C. oohriger. Griff. Palms Brit. Ind. p. x. t. 216, 

 f. 1. 



Malacca, Oriffiih. 



Stem very slender, about J in. diam., including the sheaths." Leaves aboat'2fb., 

 including the flagellnm, subsessile ; leaflets 10-12, irregularly alternate, ferrugihously 

 woolly, shortly petiolulate, 6 by 3 in. ; rachis and flagellum armed with claws, young 

 rusty -pubescent; ochrea short, truncate. Spadices from the terminal axils, together 

 forming a panicle 3-3^ ft. long, clothed with long closely appressed spathes ; branches 

 a span to a foot long. Spikes 5-7 in. ; peduncle with a tertiary spathe ; lower 

 bracts empty ; upper broad, 1-fld., and filled with stout wool. — Deser. from Griffith's 

 C. ochriger. Beccari thinks that Kurz is mistaken in uniting this with K, rigida, 

 Blnme, 



8. K. tenuissima, Becc. Males, ii. 275 ; very slender, leaflets 3-6 

 obovate or oblanoeolate acuminate subacutely toothed pale beneath, sheath 

 sparingly armed, ochrea unarmed, spikes few, spathes tubular inflated 

 dfilated above. 



Malay Peninbttla ; Perak, at Larnt, King's Collector (4057). 



Leaves with a very slender petiole ; leaflets 1-4 in. long by;l-li broad; petiole 

 very short, base callous swoUeu. Bpilces apparently glabrous from the bracts 

 exceeding the calyx. 



9. &■ flag'ellaris, Miq. in Journ. Bot. Neerl. 15 ; Fl. Ind. Bat. 

 Suppl. 255, 591 ; leaflets numerous narrow elongate-cuneate rusty pubes- 

 cent beneath acutely erosely toothed, sheath armed dorsally unarmed on 

 the petiolar side, ochrea armed only ventrally, soikes tomentose. K. 

 angustifolia, Miq. Palm. ArcUp. Ind. 16, 26 (excl.*sp. from Borneo and 

 var. |8) (not of Blume). 



Malay Peninsula; Perak, Scortechini ; at Assam Kumbung, Wraff 



Eesembles in the form of its leaflets and their colouring beneath Z. rubiginosa 

 which has longer straighter less cuneate leaflets with short not subulate teeth. ' 



