208 Bulletin Jard. Bot. Buitenzorg. Vol. IV. Livr l. 



Schismatoglottis javanica, EngL., in Pflzrch, LV (IV, 23 Da). Arac- 

 Philod.-Homal.-Schism., 108, fig. 67. 



Spathe with the tube obliquely elongate-ovoid, green, dark-green-veined, 

 very pale-punctulate between the veins, the lamina not ovoid and abruptly 

 cuspidate but elongate-conoid and gradually attenuated from the very base 

 towards the acute apex, yellowish-green, at length pale-yellow, striated and 

 punctulate like the tube. Spadix with the féminine inflorescence elongate- 

 conoid, the masculine inflorescence not clavate but subcylindrical-conoid, 

 broadest not near the apex but near the base, separated from the féminine 

 by a neuter interstice provided with scattered, very short and proportionally 

 thick, obpyramidal-cuneate, nearly flat, white abortive flowers (fig. 67 H)\ 

 ovaries green; stigma very pale-green, nearly white; staminodes of the 

 féminine inflorescence arranged at the apex and the base, rather copious, 

 capitate, clavate or obconoid, ivory-white, with the apex rounded or rot- 

 undate-truncate, on a rather slender, obconoid stalk ; fertile portion of the 

 masculine inflorescence pale-ochraceous ; stérile portion elongate-conoid, 

 subacute, ivory-white, the staminodes elongate-obpyramidal, subprismatical 

 (fig. 67 G), with -the apex nearly flat, and, like the apex of the anthers, 

 very finely punctulate-verruculose, glittering when seen under the lens by 

 reflected light. 



Engler's diagnosis completed and corrected after the original plant, 

 on which is based this species. 



Schismatoglottis tenuifolia, ENGL., in Pflzrch, LV (IV, 23 Da), Arac- 

 Philod.-Homal.-Schism,, 113. 



Leaves with the pétiole as long as the lamina or shorter, 12'/2 — 17'/2 

 cm. long, the anterior side canaliculate with the margins provided with a 

 narrowly wing-shaped crest ; crests passing into the lowest primary veins ; lamina 

 18—21 X 6—7 cm., the apex rather suddenly acuminate; primary veins 

 upcurved, connected at the apex by a rather stout, submarginal collective 

 vein, the basai ones horizontal, the others spreading; secundary, tertiary and 

 quaternary veins growing gradually finer. Spadix with the féminine inflores- 

 cence elongate-conoid, P/4— 2 cm. long, about 4 mm. thick; masculine 

 inflorescence clavate, about VI2 cm. long, '/2 cm. thick at the middle, 

 both fertile and stérile portions about as long; fertile portion obconoid, 

 stérile bluntly conoid-oblong, the apex rounded; staminodes wih the apex 

 flattened, obtusely angular. 



Engler's diagnosis is corrected and completed hère after VON RôMER's 

 original spécimen, 



Schismatoglottis luzonensis, ENGL., in Pflzrch. LV (IV, 23 Da), Arac- 

 Philod.-Homal.-Schism., 88 (not 121). 



Engler described under this spécifie name 2 absolutely différent plants 

 on différent pages (88 and 121) of the very same monograph. Of course, one 

 of both cannot be maintained under this name and should be renamed. 



