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part provided with 0—10 or even more loosely placed, slender, shortly 

 subuliform neuters + 2 — 5 mm. long, the upper part divided into mostly 

 many filiform-subulate, pale to dark, often flexuose or curved branches 

 (neuters) 1 —3 cm. long, the medial part naked (nudate) or provided with 

 more or less numerous laxly placed neuters passing gràdually into those 

 of the lower part and those of the upper part. Féminine spadix with the 

 inflorescence densely floriferous, the ovaries globose-ovoid, whether or not 

 more or less depressed, the style shortly cylindrical, less than half as long 

 as the ovary, the stigma small, flattish ; appendix like that of the maie 

 spadix 



Epiprcmnopsis média (ZOLL & MORR ), Engl , Pflzrch, XXXVlI (IV, 

 23 B), Addit. Arac.-Pothoid., 1, p.p., fig. 1Q«; Scindapsus médius, ZOLL. d^ 

 MORR., Syst Verz., No. 82. 



Spécimens gathered in Java are distinguished as follows: Internodes 

 of the ultimate branches short, sometimes hardly more than 1 cm. long. 

 Pétiole of the young plant slender, to about 10 cm. long, of the adult 

 plant to 35 cm. long, relatively shortly and narrowly sheathed at the base, 

 the inner side gràdually grooved towards the lamina, the sheath caducous, 

 the knee short, to + 2 cm long; lamina more or less coriaceous, cordate- 

 ovate in outline, of the young plant small and entire, to 12X6 cm., of the 

 adult plant large, to +40X30 cm., provided very commonly near the costa 

 with suboblong to rotundate-triangular holes 3 30 mm. long, the margin 

 varying from irregularly lobed to incised nearly to the costa; terminal lobe 

 subrhomboidal-cuneate; latéral lobes 2 — 5 on a side, short-oblong to long- 

 linear, 3 — 12 cm. broad, with the apex narrowed and shortly acuminate 

 or broad and obliquely truncate with the antical corner bluntish tofalcate- 

 acuminate, the postical corner blunt to broadly rounded; lowest latéral 

 lobes narrowly falcate, or broadly semiovate with the upper side rather 

 straight and the lower side rounded; primary veins 1 —3 in each lobe, 

 distinct, prominent beneath ; secondary and tertiary veins reticulate, forming 

 a fine or slender submarginal collective-vein. Cataphylla long-triangular- 

 lanceolate, soon drying up. Peduncle slender, + 10 cm. long, pale-green. 

 Spathe when young between boat- and spindle-shaped, gaping, 4 — 8 cm. 

 long, to 3 cm. diam., acutely acuminate, pale-yellow or the inner side very 

 pale-greenish-yellow and the outer side pale yellow-green, afterwards quite 

 open, ovate, reflexed, drying up, deciduous. Spadix cylindrical, flowering 

 3 — 6 cm. long, ^/4 — r/4 cm diam., slightly narrowed at the base and the 

 bluntly rounded apex, pale-yellow or grey-yellow, on a stalk 1 — l'/2 cm. 

 long; ovaries obpyramidal, the apex truncate, 4 — 6-angular, 4 — 6 mm. 

 thick; stigma roundish to shortly linear, not or slightly elevated. dirty- 

 white, soon becoming fuscous. 



In the cataphylla of the peduncle 1 hâve found more or less numerous 

 spicular (acicular) cells but in the spathe and ovaries none. 



