Van Alderwerelt van Rosenburqh : Malayan Araceae 2. 207 



very oblique but not connate with the spathe and like the apex provided 

 with several obloiig or subclavate, pale staminodes which are about as 

 high as the pistils; ovaries oblong; stigma thick-pulvinate, proportionally 

 very broad; masculine inflorescence elongate-conoid, 2 cm. or more long, 

 about 3 mm. thick at the base, separated from the féminine inflorescence 

 by an interstice + '/2 cm. long and provided with scattered, adpressed, 

 clavate neuter organs; fertile basai portion with a few stérile stamens 

 at the base; stérile apical portion '/s ^s long as the fertile portion, 

 acute, nudate-apiculate; thecae shortly cupuliform, about as long as the 

 filaments, truncate at the apex; staminodes of the apical portion shortly 

 prismatical, the apex flat, irrgularly flexuose or angulose. 



The description of the leaves is taken from the living plant, of the 

 flower from alcohol material, of the dimensions from both; the words 

 „or more" and „or larger" accompanying the mention of the dimensions 

 etc., refer to the dimensions etc. given by Engler. 



Sumatra, Bornéo {?). 



Schismatoglottis kurimana, V. A. V. R. 



Herba + 40 — 50 cm. alta, caudiculo + VJ2 cm. longo, ^j^ cm. crasso. 

 Foliorum petiolus 12'/2— 15 cm. longus, usque ad médium vel longius vagi- 

 natus; lamina in sicco herbacea, elongato-lanceolata vel -ovato-lanceolata, 

 20 -27'/2 X 3'/2— 5 cm., immaculata, basi rotundato-cuneata, leviter decurrens, 

 apice sensim relative longe acuminata, breviter tubuloso-apiculata; venae 

 primariae 8—10 utrinque, ascendentes, basi decurrentes, apicem versus 

 sursum curvae, apice vena collectiva crassa, intramarginali unitae ; venae 

 secundariae tertiariaeque quam primariae graciliores. Pedunculus + 7'/2 

 cm. longus. Spatha viridis; tubus fusiformis vel ovoideo-fusiformis, ± 3 cm. 

 longus, 6 — 7 mm. amplus; lamina conoideo-fusiformis, 7 cm. longa, 7 — 8 

 mm. ampla, longe acuminata. Spadix usque 8 cm. longus vel paullo 

 longior; inflorescentia feminea fusiformis vel ovoideo-fusiformis, ± 2 cm. 

 longa, Vi cm. crassa, basi ad ± '/2 partem usque dorso spathae adnata; 

 ovaria lageniformia, ascendentia, hinc inde (basales et apicales plerumque) 

 staminodiis elongato-clavatis vel longe obconoideis intermixta; stigma 

 pulvinatum, rotundum, quam apex styliformis ovarii latius; inflorescentia 

 mascula a feminea interstitio + 1 cm. longo, relative gracili, organis 

 neutris sparsis, solitariis vel 2 — 4-nis, elongato-clavatis vel longe obco- 

 noideis munito separata, longe cylindracea vel fusiformi-cylindracea, + 

 4'/2 cm. longa, + 4 mm. crassa, basi et apice obtusiuscula, parte apicali 

 sterili quam basali fertili + 2-plo longiore et paullo graciliore; antherae 

 thecis cupuliformibus, filamentum crassum aequantibus, apice truncatis, 

 connectivo crasso separatis; staminodia partis sterilis apicalis brevia, obpy- 

 ramidata, apice plana, obtuse angulosa. 



Sumatra (Lima Poeloeh Kota, Soengai Kuriman, in forest, ait. 900 m , 

 H. A. B BuNNEMEIJER No. 3255, 24 June 1918). 



