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the missing top but probably simple, one of the exterior leaves 

 linear and simple, the three innermost simple, one of these 

 very short. All the leaves are supported by a wide petiole 

 broadening to a sheath. 



Sheath giving off fibres from the margins, as usual. Blade 

 of the biggest leaf 56 cm. long, its entire base 7.5 cm. Petiole 

 + sheath 16.5 cm. The specimen bears, so far as could be traced, 

 a terminal inflorescence of which the peduncle owing to the 

 enveloping sheaths and petioles was not tracable. Inflorescence 

 (spadix) paniculate as usual, projecting beyond the leaves for 

 about 12 cm., and 18 cm. wide. When the specimen arrived 

 at Buitenzorg, it was quite dry and had lost its flowers. The 

 branches of the inflorescence were merely covered with imbri- 

 cate bracts. Judging from cicatrices of different sizes it is evident 

 that both male and female flowers had been present, the latter 

 at the base and the former higher up, as usual. 



A r a c e a e. 



Richardia africana Kth. 



Coll. Dr. A. Rant, Tjinjiroean, Bandoeng, Java, January 1913. 



Habitat Africa. 



Peduncle with two spathae which enclose each other at their 

 bases. Spadix broadening and bifurcating halfway up. 



A similar disturbance, though without bifurcation of the 

 flattened and grooved spadix, was observed a few years ago 

 by the late Dr. W. Burck in a species of Aglaonema. 



Amaryllidaceae. 



Eucharis grandiflora Planch. 



Coll. Miss VON Hertling in suo horto Buitenzorg, June 1912. 



Habitat South America. 



Flower perfectly pentamerous. 



Zingiber aceae. 

 Hedychium coronarium Koen. 



