188 Bulletin Jard. Bot. Buitenzorg, Vol. IV. Livr. i. 



Homalomena cordata (HOUTT.), SCHOTT, Melet., 1, 20; Engl., Pilzrch, 

 LV (IV, 23 Da), Arac.-Philod.-Homal.-Schism., 57, fig, 35; Dracontiiim 

 cordatiini, HoUTT., Handl., XI, 200, tab. LXXI, fig. 2. 



Versteeq's No. 1072 from New Gii'mea, referred by Engler to this 

 species, is distinguished from Engler's diagnosis and figure in having the 

 pétiole sheathing '/? i^s length, the peduncle 4 times as long as the 

 spathe, the spathe white, the spadix slender, at best 3 mm. thick, the 

 ovaries cylindrical, the staminodes obconical-clavate in the upper half, 

 rather truncate at the apex. 



Engler gives no détail figure of the masculine flowers. Two spécimens 

 from Java {Batavia, probably cultivated) and the Moluccas (Amboina, BOER- 

 LAGE No. 360), both determined by ENGLER, hâve the stamens as in fig. 

 35 D (upper portion), i. e. witli a thick, angular connective covering the 

 thecae. 



Homalomena gigantca, EnGL., Pflzrch, LV (IV, 23 Da), Arac-Philod.- 

 Homal.-Schism., 62, fig. 37—38. 



This Bornean species has been founded on 2 spécimens cultivated in 

 the Buitenzorg Gardens under Nos. 34 and 103. — No. 34, from Bornéo, 

 after which fig. 38 has probably been taken, is now dead. — No. 103, from 

 an unknown habitat, does not agrée with the diagnosis and the fig. 38 

 quoted above; it is distinguished by the following characters: Fully devel- 

 oped (but not too old) leaves with the pétiole to 75 cm. long, green, with 

 copious relatively short, fine, longitudinal, purplish streaks, sheating + ^U 

 its length, the sheath red-margined, becoming green towards the line of 

 attachment; lamina + 27'/2— 45 X I7V2— 30 cm., narrowly pale-red-marg- 

 ined, with the basai lobes not or hardly extrorse (as in H. aromatica 

 SCHOTT, Engl., 1. c, fig. 36, highest leaf), the primary veins ± 7 — Q on, 

 a side (including the basai ones) ; spadix 8—9 cm. long when flovvering 

 larger when fruiting; staminodes with the apex obconical-clavate. 



Homalomena Treubii, Engl., Pflzrch, LV (IV, 23 Da), Arac.-Philod.- 

 Homal-Schism., 70. 



Hallier's original No. 2622, on which ENGLER based this species, is 

 distinguished by the following characters not mentioned in the diagnosis: 

 Lamina relatively suddenly acutely acuminate and apiculate ; primary veins 



distinctly stouter than de secundary and tertiary 

 ones; peduncle more than 7'/2— 10 cm. long; spathe 

 with the tube ovoideo-ellipsoidal, the lamina 

 conoideo-cylindrical, 5 — 7 cm. long, ^l2—^U diam., 

 subulate-acuminate. 



Engler gives no figure of this species. Regard- 



ing the spadix he writes ,,inflorescentia feminea 



Fig. u. staminodiis destituta". I hâve examined a young 



