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Gen. Aroid., tab. 78, (1858); Engl., in DC, Mon. Phan , 11, 97; Hk., Flor. 

 Br. Ind., VI, 540; Engl., Pflzrch, XXI (IV, 23 B), Arac.-Pothoid , 49; 

 KooRDERS, Exk.fl., 1, 252; Scindopsus microstachyus, de Vr. & Miq , in Miq., 

 Flora Ned. Ind, III, 188, tab. XXXIX, (1855). 



Scindapsus montanus Knth (Enum., 111, 64 = Co/Za montono Bi.., Catal., 

 147) was by Schott doubtingly and wrongly considered to belong to his 

 new geiius Anadendron. From this cause lie called Anadendron mortanum 

 a plant figured by him (with many détails but without spécifie diagnosis) 

 in Gen. Aroid., quoted above. This plant, however, was not at ail identical 

 with Scindapsus montanus Knth. Subséquent writers on the subject(ENGLER, 

 HOOKER, KoORDERS, the two last authors copying from the first) took up the 

 name Anadendron montanum Schott for the plant figured by Schott, wrongly 

 citing as synonyms of it Calla montana Bl. and Scindapsus montanus Knth. 

 Moreover Engler, copied by Koorders, reduced the two latter names, this 

 time correctly, also as synonyms to Raphidophora montana Schott. 



But already as early as 1855 de Vriese and Miquel had under the 

 name of Scindapsus microstachyus described and figured a Javanese plant 

 quite différent from Scindapsus montanus Knth but the very same species 

 on which Schott two years afterwards founded his genus Anadendron. 

 The description given by de Vriese and Miquel not being quit correct, 

 was amended by Miquel in 1862 after examination of spécimens from 

 Sumatra on which occasion he altered the first given name into Pothos 

 malaianus, expressly stating that this was the same plant formerly described 

 by him and de Vriese as Scindapsus microstachyus. But hère, unhappily. 

 Miquel was wrong. The Stimatran spécimens, as clearly appears from the 

 description „Perigonium .... brève inter ovaria .... latens", do not at 

 ail belong to the species of Anadendron up till now found in Java and 

 which are positively provided with a distinct perigonium as high as the 

 ovary though it is not mentioned nor drawn in the description and plate 

 of Scindapsus microstachyus. By reduàng Scindapsus microsctachyus, iounded 

 on Javanese plants, as a synonym to Pothos malaianus, Miquel has mixed 

 up two différent species, the first of which ]^ Anadendron montanum, wh'^M 

 the latter, founded on Sumatran plants, is identic with Anadendron affine 

 Schott occurring in Sumatra only and not in Java. Thus, in reducing PoZ/7os 

 malaianus to Anadendron montanum and Scindapsus microstachyus to Ana- 

 dendron ajfine, Engler was wrong in both cases. 



According to the rules of priority Anadendron montanum Schott should 

 be called Anadendron microstachyum Backer & v. A. v. R. with the synonyms 

 quoted above and Calla montana Bl. and Scindapsus montanus Knth are 

 to be reduced only to Raphidophora montana Schott, whilst Anadendron 

 affine Schott should be called: 



Anadendron malatanum (Miq). Backer & v. A. v. R. ; A. affine, 

 Schott, in Ann. Mus. Bot. L. B., 1, 282, (1863-1864); Engl., Pflzrch, XXI 

 (IV, 23 B), Arac.-Pothoid., 47 (exe. syn,); Pothos malaianus, MiQ , Flora 

 Ned. Ind., Supplem. 1, 596, (1862). 



