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cylimlriea, breviter mncronata, 2-5 mm. longa, 5 mm. lata, medio non angustato. 

 SpadLv cylindricus, angustus, 2 cm. longus, stipitatus, stipite 2 mm. longo ; parte s 

 15 cm. longa, 2 mm. crassa ; parte 2 breviore. Flores pauci, circiter 30, subremoti. 

 Ooaria globosa, stigmatibus minoril)us discoideis. Staminodia minima, oblonga, 

 truncata, baud alba, quam ovaria multo breviora. 

 Canoe Camp, 150 ft. (dry country), and Camp VI b, 3900 ft. (on tbe side of a ridge). 

 Tbis differs from tbe preceding species in its nearly entire leaves, different venation, 

 smaller spadix and spatlie, and in the female portion being smaller, with fewer flow'ers 

 less separate and often touching. 



Thi.'se two plants, with H. tetmispadix, form a link between the two sections of 

 HomaloiDena, resembling Euhomalomena in tbe large size of tlie foliage and the liabit, 

 and Chamcecladon'va. the small staminodia shorter than the ovaries, and not conspicuously 

 ■white. All also possess the character of distinct female flowers, which do not touch 

 each other on the spilve. 



SCHISMATOGLOTTIS KlOSSII, E-idl., sp. nOV. 



Herba parva. Folia lanceolata, acuminata, cuspidata, basi breviter angustata, retusa 

 vel latiora, breviter cordata, superne viridia, subtus pallida, 9 cm. longa, 3 cm. lata, 

 nervis circiter 20 ; petioli 5 cm. longi ; vagina lata, 3 cm. longa. Cataphylla 

 lanceolata, papyracea, 2 cm. longa. Peduiwnlus 35 cm. longus. Spatha 5 cm. 

 longa, basi tubulosa, viridia, 2 cm. longa, lamina convoluta dilatata cuspidata 3 om. 

 longa. Spadix 35 cm. longus, parte ? angusta cylindrica superne breviter 

 angustata, parte <3 superne gradatim dilatata, apice lato rotundato sterili 6 mm. 

 longo 5 mm. lato. Flores sturiles irregulariter angulati, rufo-puuctati, breviores, 

 thecis magnis duobus. Ocaria oblonga versus basin minora, ovulis paucis, stigmate 

 parvo cajiitato. 



Camps III to IV, 1100 to 2500 ft. 



Near S. celebica, Engl., but the foliage differs in its more numerous nerves, and is 

 broader in proportion to its length, the sterile flowers at the top of the spadix are 

 little longer than the male flowers, and the pistils oblong and not globose. 



Raphidophoea nutans, E,idl., sp. nov. 



Plaiifa scandens, ramis elongatis gracilibus, internodiis 3 cm. longis 2 mm. crassis. 

 Fulia remota, elongata, lanceolata, longe acuminata, 16 cm. longa, tenuiter coriacea, 

 basi breviter angusta, nervis tenuibus copiosis ascendentibus, petiolis 1 cm. longis. 

 Pedimculus terminalis, nutans, 2 cm. longus. Bractea ad basin lanceolata, 

 decidua, 3 cm. longa. Spatha lanceolata, caudato-acuminata, falcata, 2 cm. longa. 

 Spadix 1'2 cm. longus, 7 mm. ci-assus, oblongus, cylindricus. apice rotundatus. 

 Florum verticilli ad 6, pauciflori, floribvis pro spadice majusculis. Staminuin 

 filamenta pistillo aequilonga, thecis ovalibus. Stylus breviter cylindrico-conicus. 



Camp VI a, 3100 ft. 



Allied to R. minor. Hook. f. 



