Tap.. 6571. 
HOMALONE MA WaAtLIsII. 
Native of New Grenada. 
Nat. Ord. AnorpEm.—Tribe PHILODENDRE. 
Genus Homatonema, Schott.; (Engl. in A. DC. Monog. Phaneroy. ¢ol.ii. p. 332.) 
Homatonema Wallisii ; acaulis, foliis ovatis v. ovato-oblongis breviter acuminatis 
glabris supra viridibus pallide maculatis subtus glaucis, petiolo brevi antice 
canaliculato vagina elongata, pedunculo brevi, spathe sordide punicee albo 
punctulatz tubo ventricoso lamina ovata acuminata cymbiformi latiore et paullo 
longiore, spadice spatha paullo breviore parte feemineo quam masculo multo 
breviore et paullo crassiore, ovario 2-3-loculari. 
H. Wallisii, Regel in Gartenfl. 1875, p. 33; 1876, p. 320; Engler in A. DC. 
Monog. Phanerog. vol. ii. p. 342. 
CurmMERIA Wallisii, Masters in Gard. Chron. 1877, p. 108, f. 16; Rafarin in 
Rev. Hortic. 1878, p. 192, f. 36; André in Ill. Hortic. vol. xxv. p. 24, t. 303. 
I have followed Dr. Engler, the author of the excellent 
Monograph of Aracee (in Alph. De Candolle’s continuation 
of the Prodromus), in referring the genus Curmeria to a 
section of Homalonema, though the species are all American, 
whilst the Homalonemas proper are exclusively Asiatic, 
relying on his statement that there are no constant 
differences between them; feeling incompetent, without as 
thorough an examination of all the species as he has made, 
to pronounce an opinion of my own on the subject. It is, 
however, remarkable how few genera of the Order are 
common to the old and new worlds, the chief others being 
Spathiphyllum and Arisema, of which the first is tropical, 
and the last temperate. M. André, indeed, says in the 
“ Tllustration Horticole’”’ (1. ¢.), that. an examination of 
the original species (0. Roezlii), and of two others, con- 
firms his opinion that the genera are different, and adds 
that Dr. Masters is of the same opinion. But M. André 
does not give the grounds of his opinion, and in referring 
to Dr. Masters’ account of OC. Roezlit (Gard. Chron. 1874, 
JULY Ist, 1881. 
