Tas. 6576. | 
SCHISMATOGLOTTIS CRISPATA. 
Native of Borneo. 
Nat. Ord. ArorpEx.—Tribe PHInopENDREZ. 
_ Genus Scuismatoetortis, Zoll. and Morr.; (Engler Monog. Arac. p. 349.) 
SCHISMATOGLOTTIS crispata ; robusta, foliis coriaceis petiolatis oblongis v. ovato- 
cordatis apiculatis lobis basi rotundatis sinu acuto, lamina luride viridi 
utrinque inter costam et marginem albo sordido irrorata, petiolo robusto 
asperulo marginibus crispatulis, vagina auriculata auriculis truncatis, spatha 
4-5 pollicari breviter pedunculata lineari-oblonga virescente breviter cuspidata, 
spadice spathe zequilonga, parte foeminea mascula breviore annulo organorum 
neutrorum superata, parte sterili elongato fusiformi-cylindraceo, connectivo 
Sega ovarlis breviter cylindraceis, stigmate orbiculari, placentis 2 parie- 
talibus. 
The number of Aroidee being now introduced into culti- 
vation, from the Islands of the Indian Archipelago especially, 
is very great, and: this is a fortunate circumstance in view 
of the advance of systematic and descriptive botany; for 
difficult as is the analysis of these plants in a living state, 
it is infinitely more so in the dried. Just now, thanks to 
their frequently variegated foliage, they are favourites in 
cultivation, but I doubt if they will long continue so. The 
genera to which they belong have been exceedingly well 
defined by Dr. Engler, in his “ Monograph of the Araceae,” 
a work which proves him to be the worthy successor of the 
late veteran Dr. Schott, of Schoenbrun, who was no less 
celebrated for his works on the Order, than he was for the 
marvellous living collection of species which he brought 
together in the Gardens of the Emperor of Austria. The 
genus Schismatoglottis is here for the first time figured from 
living specimens, and its close affinity to Homalonema 
(figured at Tab. 6571) will at once be recognized ; the chief 
difference between these genera is the two- or more-celled 
ovary of the latter genus, and the micropyle of its ovule 
being directed upwards. 
AvausT Ist, 1881. © 
