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BECCARI. 
Ocrea elongate-elliptic, ventricose, 9 to 10 cm long, 2 cm broad, thinly 
coriaceous, armed with small scattered, short, rigid prickles. Leaves with 
a slender biconvex, flattened petiolar part, about 20 cm long, 4 mm broad, 
with rather obtuse and smooth edges, armed beneath along the center 
with a few solitary claws; rachis in the intermediate portion armed 
almost regularly with ternate claws; leaflets distinctly ansate, narrowly 
rhomboid-cuneate, broadest above their middle, 15 to 20 cm long, 4 to 
5 cm broad, rather acutely praemorse-dentate in the upper margins, and 
produced at the summit into an acuminate point, green above, white 
beneath, with about 7 primary costae. Spadix unknown. 
Mindanao, District of Zamboanga, For. Bur. J/S16 Hutchinson, July, 1906. 
N. v., tanguguid. 
This is to all appearances the representative form in the Philippines of K. 
scaphigera from which it differs in the much more elongate ocrea. 
To K. scaphigeroides are probably to be referred some noncirriferous leaves 
from young plants collected on Basilan Island, For. Bur. 6106 Hutchinson, 
July, 1906. 
Korthalsia squarrosa Becc. sp. nov. 
Mediocris, caudice vaginato, 2 cm diametro. Frondes cirro verticil- 
latim aeuleato terminate; vagina spiculis gracilibus, 5-6 mm longis, 
armata; ocrea longiuscula (6-7 cm longa), chartacea, marcescenti et 
fragili, arc-te vaginanti, minime inflata, in ventre aperta; petiolo superne 
piano, subtus eonvexo, ad margines spinis nonnullis rectis, horizontalibus, 
armato; segmentis longiuscule ansatis, rhomboideo-cuneatis, 18-20 cm 
longis, 6-7 cm latis, supra viridibus, subtus albicantibus, antice argute 
inaequaliter dentatis, dentibus majoribus aristatis. Spadicis spicae flori- 
ferse cylindracete, apice obtusse, 20 cm iongse, 20-22 mm crassge, squarrosae, 
bracteis in tomento non immersis, late ovatis, argute venoso-striatis ; 
apice non adpresso, triangulari ; floribus inter bracteolas in dorso carinatas 
et paleolis vestitas, nidulantibus, 13 mm longis ; calyce cyathiformi, usque 
ad medium trilobo; corolla calyce 3-plo longiori. Fructus 
Sheathed stem about 2 cm in diameter. Leaf-sheaths armed with very 
small slender spiculse, 5 to 6 mm long, resting on a tuberculiform base. 
Ocrea papery, marcescent, brittle, rather elongate (apparently 6 to 7 cm 
long), closely sheathing but open on the ventral side (not inflated). 
Leaves of the adult plant terminated by a long and slender cirrus, which 
is densely armed with semiverticillate, very slender, sharp claws; petiole 
quite flat above, convex beneath with acute margins, sparingly armed with 
short, straight, horizontal spines. Leaflets green above, white beneath; 
those of the upper part of cirriferous leaves having 11 main and radiating 
nerves or costae and being 18 to 20 cm long and 6 to 7 cm broad in their 
upper part, from where they gradually or cuneately narrow downward 
to a very acute and distinctly ansate base; the upper part of the blade 
is triangular and acuminate and acutely but irregularly toothed, with 
the largest teeth aristate. Spikes cylindraceous, thick and short, and 
