1 1 2 Bu lletin Jard. Bot. Buitenzorg, Vol. IV. Livr. l. 



2/4 — 1 cm. crassa, parte basali fertili obconoidea, juvenili sordide albida, 

 panem apicalem sterilem, breviter conoideo-cylindraceam, juvenilem 

 eburneam, apice late rotundatam aequante ; staminum thecae breviter oblon- 

 gae, quam filamentum pauilo breviores; stamina inferiora hic illic sterilia; 

 staminodia partis apicalis sterilis elongato-clavata. apice rotundata, lateribus 

 leviter obtuse angulosis. 



The description is taken from Uving spécimens cultivated in the 

 Buitenzorg Gardens, flowering June to December 1Q20. 



Ceram (Wahai, K'iU Solo, L. Rutten's Exploration Commission). 



Schismatoglottis calytprata (Rxb.), ZOLL. & MOR., Syst. Verz., 83; 

 MlQ., Flor. Ned. Ind., 111, 214; EnGL. & KRAUSE, in Pflzrch, LV (IV, 23 

 Da), Arac.-Philod.-Homal.-Schism., 114; Sc/i. longipes, MlQ., l.c; SCHOTT, 

 Gen. Aroid., tab. 55; Calla calyptrata, RXB., Flor. Ind., 111, 514 



Judging from the diagnosis given by Engler and KRAUSE one should 

 think that this species has the spadix with a dark-coloured masculine inflor- 

 escence with black-purple and (or) purple-striped stamens and staminodes. 

 This is really the case in dried spécimens and commonly (though not 

 invariably) also in material preserved in alcohol. Although this species 

 seems to be very common in Malaya 1 hâve up till now not been in the 

 opportunity to examine living spécimens but 1 am inclined to suppose that 

 the spadix has ail the portions pale-coloured, since in ail the spécimens 

 of other species that 1 hâve seen in state of nature the inflorescences were 

 pale, the ovaries commonly pale-green, the stigmata dirty-white, and the 

 stamens and staminodes varying between ivory-white and pale-yellow or 

 dirty-white, rarely pale-rosy, -brown or -orange. ') — According to SCHOTT's 

 plate of Sch. longipes MlQ. quoted above (considered by HOOKER as a 

 distinct species) the. féminine inflorescence is provided with few (+ 3-6) 

 staminodes (not mentioned in ENGLER and KRAUSE's diagnosis) about as 

 high as the pistils, with a clavate-capitate apex nearly as thick as the ovaries 

 and a relatively slender, stipitiform lower partion. 



Forma typica. - Burma across the Malayan Peninsula and Islands to 

 the Philippines and Papiia. 



Forma multimargarita: Inflorescentia feminea cum mascula lactea ad 

 pallide flavida; staminodia inter pistilla numerosa (in specimine examinato 

 + 100), apice quam ovaria + 2-plo crassiore et pistilla superante. — 5«/;zû/râ: 

 {Deli, Sibolangit, J. A. LôRZlNG No. 5441, 26 November 1917). 



Schismatoglottis pseudo-calyptrata, V. A. V. R. 



Herba majuscula, usque + 35 cm. alta, caudice brevissimo. Folio- 

 rum petiolus 12 — 18 cm. longus, relative obscure viridis, basi V5 — Va 

 longitudinis viridi-vaginatus, antice apicem versus subconcavo-applanatus et 



') KooRDERS' No. 23307/5 from Java is provided with a label bearing the words 

 „Flower dirty-white". 



