Van Ald erwerelt van Rosenburgh: Malayan Araceae 2. 203 



Schismatoglottis hastifolia, Engl., in Pflzrch, LV (IV, 23 Da), Arac- 

 Pliilod.-Homal -Schism., 116, 



If the spécimen up till now cultivated in the Buitenzorg Gardens under 

 the name of Sch. hastifolia HALL. F. is the same spécimen as that on 

 which EnGLER based his diagnosis, the diagnosis should be modified as 

 follows: Pétiole H'/o— 50 cm. long, sheathing about '/s "^s length, dark- 

 dirty-red, viridescent towards the apex, the upper part flattened or slightly 

 concave and acutely 2-marginate on the anterior side, for the rest terete 

 and, like the costa and lower part of the primary veins beneath, when 

 young densely but very minutely and rather deciduously papilloso-puber- 

 ulous; lamina firm-herbaceous, sagittate-triangular-oblong, rarely hastate, 

 15—30X6 — 1^ cm., the upper surface dark green, often becoming paler- 

 green-striated between the veins, especially towards the margin, the under sur- 

 face pale-green, subglaucous, the apex slightly falcate, acuminate, apiculate, 

 the basai lobes triangular, bluntish, separated by an acute or subrectangular 

 sinus; costa beneath copiously (not densely), very minutely and rather 

 deciduously papilloso-puberulous, the primary veins sparingly so towards 

 the base; primary veins 12 — 18 on a side, upcurved towards the apex, the 

 lower ones radiating, the lowest deflexed ; secondary and tertiary veins 

 finer than the primary ones. Spathe Spadix 



The Buitenzorg Herbarium possesses 2 incomplète, erroneously numbered 

 flowers preserved in alcohol, which are probably proceeding from the same 

 plant. They hâve the spathe with the tube obconoid-oblong, the lamina 

 wanting. Spadix with the féminine inflorescence cylindraceous, 6 — 9 mm. 

 long, 5 mm. thick, oblique at the base; ovaries oblong-ovoid ; stigma pul- 

 vinate, round, sessile; staminodes . . , .; masculine inflorescence separated 

 from the féminine by a thick interstice about ^/4 cm. long, provided with 

 several very minute neuter organs of which the lower are apparently 

 more or less crowded, the others scattered, 



Schismatoglottis belophylla, V. A.V. R. 



Herba majuscula, cum foliis 25 — 50 cm. alta, caudice ascendente, 

 5 — 10 cm. alto. Foliorum petiolus 25 — 40 cm. longus, fere usque ad 

 médium vaginatus, fere usque ad laminam sordide brunneo-purpureus, in- 

 terdum brunneo-ruber, antice plus minusve canaliculatus, ceterum dense, 

 breviter puberulus, postremo glabrescens; lamina in sicco firmiter herbacea, 

 trianguiari- vel oblongo-sagittata, usque 20 — 30X7 — 14 cm., supra obscure 

 viridis, marginem versus saepe pallidius viridi-maculato-striata, subtus pallide 

 viridis, lobo antico trianguiari vel oblongo-triangulari, apice acuto ad longius, 

 acute acuminato, lobis posticis plerumque elongato-triangularibus, quam 

 lobo antico 3-plo brevioribus, obtusis, retrorsis vel subextrorsis, sinu angusto 

 ad late trianguiari separatis; costa subtus dense, breviter puberula; venae 

 primariae secundariaeque subtus basin versus plus minusve puberulae; 

 venae primariae 10 — 12 utrinque, apicem versus sursum curvae, basales 



