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rubro-afflatus); lamina conoideo-fusiformis, 4 — 5 cm. longa, ^/4 — 1 cm. 

 ampla, hians, pallide viridescens, longitudinaliter olivaceo-venosa, auguste 

 rubro-marginata, levissime ruguloso-verruculosa, acuminata, rubro-apiculata. 

 Spadix 5 — 6 cm. longus; inflorescentia feminea cylindracea, IV2— 2 cm. 

 longa, 3 mm. crassa, maxima parte spathae adnata, staminodiis paucis, 

 sparsis, sordide albidis, clavatis vel stipitato-obconoideis, pistilla aequantibus 

 munita; ovaria oblonga, pallide viridia; stigma parvum, sessile, olivaceum ; 

 inflorescentia mascula femineae contigua, parte basali fertili cylindracea, 

 l'/4 — ï^/4 cm. longa, 2 mm. crassa, albida, hic illic roseo-afflata, parte 

 apicali sterili fusiformi-cylindracea, + 2 cm. longa, medio 3 mm. crassa, 

 pallide aurantiaca, acuta, denudato-apiculata; antherae thecis breviter cupu- 

 liformibus, quam filamento pauUo longioribus, apice truncatis; staminodia 

 partis apicalis sterilis brevia, inferiora oblonga, apice rotundata, superiora 

 subprismatica, apice truncata. 



A very handsome small species resembling in shape of the leaves and 

 the flower (not the colours) Sch. trifasciata ENGL. — The description is 

 taken from living plants cultivated in the Buitenzorg Gardens, flowering 

 July 1920. 



Bornéo (NlEUWENHUlS No. 1078). 



Schismatoglottis lancifolia, HALL. F. & EnGL., in Pflzrch, LV (IV, 

 23 Da), Arac.-Philod.-Homal.-Schism., 88. 



If the plant from Sumatra {Dell, JAHERI), up till now cultivated in the 

 Buitenzorg Gardens under the name of Sch. lancifolia Hall. F., is the 

 same as that on which Engler based his incomplète description, the 

 diagnosis will be as follows : Relatively large herb, with the caudex short. 

 Leaves with the pétiole about as long as the lamina, green, the sheath 

 2 — 3 cm. or more long, the anterior side canaliculate and narrowly 

 2-cristate but more distinctly towards the apex, the upper part copiously 

 but very minutely red-puncticulate, as are the crests which are passing into 

 the base of the lamina (not the lowest primary veins); lamina relatively 

 thick-herbaceous, when dry thinner, lanceolate, T'/a — 15X1^/4 — 4 cm. or 

 larger, slightly unequal-sided, mostly broadest at the middle, the upper part 

 gradually acuminate, often slightly falcate, shortly apiculate, the base cuneate or 

 rotundate cuneate, the upper surface dark-green, copiously albido-puncticulate, 

 the under surface pale-green; costa pale-green on both sides but the under 

 side copiously and minutely red-puncticulate; primary veins 4 - 6or more on 

 a side, prominent beneath, the highest erect from an arcuate-ascending base, the 

 lowest much ascending, about parallel with the margin, upcurved ; secondary, 

 tertiary and quaternary veins growing gradually finer. Peduncle 5—6 cm. 

 or more long. Spathe with the tube ovoid, 2 — 2'/2 cm. long and about 

 1 cm. diam. or larger ; lamina probably elongate-conoid. Spadix short-stalked, 

 the stalk very oblique, connate with the spathe; féminine inflorescence 

 cylindraceo-conoid, about 1 cm. long and ^\■^ cm. thfck or larger, the base 



