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± 55—60 cm. longus. Spatha basi convoluta, sursum subplana, explanata 

 ovata, ± 15 X 7'/2 cm., apice obtusiuscula, breviter acute apiculato-acuminata. 

 Spadix ± 11 cm. longus; inflorescentia feminea cylindrica, d^ 2 cm. longa; 

 ovaria depresso-globosa, ± 2 mm. alta, 1-ovulata; stylus graciliter et breviter 

 cylindricus, ± '/2 ^^^- longus; stigma capitatum, laeve, hic illic obsolète 

 foveolatum; inflorescentia mascula cylindrica, ± 3V2 cm. longa; appendix 

 conico-cylindracea, h 5V2 cm. longa, quam tota inflorescentia paullo 

 crassior, prope basin ± l'/2 cm. crassa, apicem obtusiusculum versus 

 sensim attenuata, sublaevis. 



Forest; ait. 1000 m. — The description of the flower is taken from 

 alcohol-material. 



Sumatra {Mt. Talaniau, H. A. B. Bunnemeyer No. 421, 25 May 1917). 



Amorphophallus discophorus, Backer & v. A. v. R. 



Foliorum petiolus ± 80 — 120 cm. longus, ceterum pedunculo similis; 

 lamina :: 100 — 150 cm. diametiens, 3-partita; rami primarii dichotomi. 

 ramis ramulisque pinnatis; pinnae inferiores simplices, superiores3-foliolatae; 

 foliola ultima elliptica vel oblongo-lanceolata, inferiora parva, non decur- 

 rentia, superiora majora, usque ad 20 X 6 cm., longe angusteque cuspidata, 

 basi abrupte longe decurrentia. Cataphylla. . . . Pedunculus 100—150 cm. 

 longus, asperulus, griseo- et obscure brunneo-maculatus Spatha oblique 

 obconica, explanata ovata, ± 15 — 20X7'/2 — 10 cm., acuta, breviter apicul- 

 ato-acuminata, basi convoluta, intus deorsum papillosa, viridis, sursum pur- 

 purea, extus purpurea, basin versus viridis, vel tota obscure viridis, purpureo-, 

 brunneo- et pallide viridi-maculata. Spadix quam spatha paullo longior 

 vel brevior; inflorescentia feminea cylindrica, ± 3 -4 cm. longa; ovaria ± 

 obverse hemisphaerica vel obovata, ± 2 mm. longa, apice obscure purpu- 

 rea, truncata, in medio depressa, 2-ovulata; stylus graciliter cylindricus, 

 ± 1 mm. longus; stigma capitatum, in vivo flavidum, 2-lobatum; inflores- 

 centia mascula ± 2 — 2'/2 cm. longa, parte basali graciliter cylindrica, apicali 

 crasse cylindrica, mediana conspicue abrupte incrassata, discoideo-annuli- 

 formis; appendix elongato-conoidea, viridi-flavida vel sordide purpurea, 

 verruculosa, ± 10-15 cm. longa, medio 2—3 cm. crassa, basi paullo 

 attenuata, abrupte truncata et in medio subsaccato-impressa, parte supraba- 

 sali praesertim in sicco plus minusve constricta, parte superiore apicem 

 obtusiusculum vel acutiusculum versus sensim attenuata. 



Forest; ait. 1200-1300 m. 



The description is taken from dried spécimens, completed after the 

 field notes. The dried stigmata, when boiled, are indistinctly lobulate.— 

 By the peculiar masculine inflorescence very distinct from the other known 

 Malayan species. 



Java {Mt. Wilis, C. A. Backer Nos. 114636/s, 11470, 11563, 11 — 15 

 February 1914). 



Anadendron microstachym (de Vr & Miq), Backer & v. A. v. R. 

 (not A. affine, Schott); A. montanum, Schott, in Bonpl., V, 45, (1857); 



