222 BULLETFN JARD. BOT. BUITENZORG, VOL. IV. LlVR. 1. 



Schismatoglottis sublaxiflora, V.A.V.R. 



Sch. Vanvuureni V.A.V.R. affinis. — Foliorum lamina elongato-ovato- 

 cordata, venis primariis 1 1 — 13 utrinque. Pedunculus 3— 4 cm. longus. Spatha 

 brevior, lamina pallide flavido-viridi. Spadix + 3V2 cm. longus; inflorescentia 

 feminea + 2 cm. longa, sursum distincte laxiflora; pistilla superiora pis- 

 tillodiis concoloribus, obovoideo-obconoideis, rachidi appressis intermixta ; 

 ovaria crasse ovoidea vel obovoidea, apice +rotundata et in medio abrupte, 

 brevissime stylîformi-attenuata ; staminodium ad basin inflorescentiae femineae 

 1 vidi, quam pistillum l'/a-plo longius, albidum, graciliter clavatum, basi 

 in stipitem longum sensim transiente; inflorescentia mascula clavata, parte 

 basali fertili elongato-obconoidea, pallide brunneo-flavida, 8 mm. longa, 3 

 mm. crassa, parte apicali sterili breviter oblongo-ovoidea, 7 mm. longa, 

 supra basin truncatam 5 mm. crassa, pallide sulfurea, apice late rotundata; 

 antherae paullo remotae ; thecae breviter cupuliformes, apice truncatae, an- 

 nuliformi-incrassatae, connectivo paullo superatae.— Ceterum Sch. Vanvuureni 



similis. 



The différences of the dimensions, of course, are practically of secondary 

 importance.— The description is taken from a living plant cultivated in the 

 Buitenzorg Oardens. 



Celebes {Mt. Siseh, Capt. L. VAN VuUREN's Exploration Expédition). 



Schismatoglottis emarginata, EnGL., in Pflzrch, LV (IV, 23 Da), 

 Arac-Philod.-Homal.-Schism., 93 p, p., fig. 5Q. 



This spécifie name includes at least 3 absolutely différent species, of 

 which not a single one agrées with the entire diagnosis and figure given 

 by ENQLER. 



The plants gathered in Bornéo by NiEUWENHUlS (Nos. 3Q3, 420), 

 mentioned by EnGLER, are too incomplète for a positive détermination, 

 one of them being stérile and the other bearing only a single fructiferous 

 peduncle; at any rate they do not belong to Sch. emarginata as described 

 and figured by ENGLER, the leaves of both having the lamina not „secus 

 costam vittata" but very distinctly „irregulariter maculata (== irrorata)"; 

 they belong probably either to Sch. pulchra N. E. Br. or to Sch. irrorata 

 Engl. — The Buitenzorg Herbarium possesses alas no trustworthy material 

 of the said species but 1 am inclined to refer them to Sch. irrorata ENGL. 



There are in the Buitenzorg Oardens 2 beds (XI B; X 15, 155) with 

 totally différent plants cultivated both under the name of Sch. emarginata 

 EnGL. — Comparing them with ENGLER's diagnosis and figure quoted above, 

 it seems that ENGLER used one of them (No. 15, from an unknown habitat) 

 and not the other (No. 155, from Bornéo, NiEUWENHUlS No. 1302) for his 

 description and drawing, since No. 155 has the leaves entirely equally green 

 without any trace of being „vittata" on the upper side. The spadix of 

 No. 15 has the féminine and masculine inflorescences not contiguous but 

 separated by an interstice provided with more or less scattered neuter organs, 



