Van Alderwerelt van RosenburGH: Malayan Araceae 2. 209 



Since the library of the Buitenzorg Gardens has now several lacks 

 or gaps due to the partial interruption of its regular completion during 

 and after the great war, I failed to find out whether the error mentioned 

 might hâve been discovered and corrected. if this should not be the case, 

 1 propose to maintain the name Sch. luzonensis Engl. for the plant des- 

 cribed on page 88 of the monograph quoted above and to call the other: 



Schismatoglottis plurivenia, V. A. V. R. ; Sch. luzonensis, Enql., in 

 Pflzrch, LV (IV, 23 D^z), Arac.-Philod.-Homal.-Schism., 121 (not 88). 

 Luzon. 



Schismatoglottis canaliculata, ENGL., in Pflzrch, LV (IV, 23 Da), 

 Arac -Philod.-Homal.-Schism., 112. 



If the plant cultivated in the Buitenzorg Gardens, of which the Buitenzorg 

 Herbarium possesses dried leaves and alcohol material of the flower, is 

 the same as that on which Engler founded this species, then the diagnosis 

 should be completed as foUovvs: Pétiole about as long as the lamina, 

 sheathing ^U — ^U i^s length; lamina of the adult plant rather triangular- 

 oblong, 2— 2'/2 X as long as broad, the base cordate, shortly and broadly 

 cuneate between the basai lobes, the apex gradually acuminate; basai lobes 

 semioblong or rotundate-triangular. Peduncle 7'/2 — 10 crn- long- Spathe 

 with the tube obconoid-obovate, to 2 cm. long and 1 cm. diam. Spadix 

 about 6 cm. long; féminine inflorescence cylindrical-oblong, 2'/4— 2'/2 cm. 

 long, the lower half connate with the spathe; ovaries ellipsoidal-oblong, 

 attenuated at the base and the styliform apex; stigma thick-pulvinate, round, 

 broader than the apex of the ovary; staminodes among the pistils several 

 (+ 25 in the spécimen in hand), about twice as high as the pistils, the apex 

 relatively small, ovate, oblong or obovate, on a long and proportionally 

 thick stalk; masculine inflorescence close to the féminine, subcylindrical, 3^/4 

 cm. long, V2 cm. thick below the middle, very slightly attenuated at the base and 

 the blunt, rather rounded apex, the stérile apical portion about twice as long 

 as the fertile basai portion; thecae shortly cupiliform, shorter than the filaments, 

 truncate at the apex; staminodes slender-obpyramidal, subprismatical, the 

 apex truncate, irregularly, obtusely angular. — The alcohol material has the 

 stalks of the lower staminodes, the filaments, the apices of the thecae, and the 

 higher staminodes copiously dark-puncticulate or shortly, longitudinally 

 dark-striolate. 



Schismatoglottis wahaiana, V. A. V. R. 



Planta parva, + 15 cm. alta, caudiculo brevi. Foliorum petiolus 4'/2— 

 9 cm. longus, basi '/4— '/a longitudinis vaginatus, ceterum antice applanatus 

 vel leviter canaliculatus, 2-cristatus, sursum viridis, deorsum punctis minutis 

 vel striis longitudinalibus brevissimisque, rubris specie obscure sordide ruber, 

 postremo viridescens; vagina rosea, copiose rubro-puncticulata vel -striolata; 

 cristae auguste aliformes, leviter undulatae, pallide virides, rubro-puncticulatae; 



