Van Alderwerelt van Rosenbur gh: Malayan Aracea e 2. 225 



Schismatoglottis trifasciata, EnGL., in Pflzrch, LV (IV, 23 Dd), Arac- 

 Philod.-Homal.-Schism., 106, fig. 65. 



NiEUWENHUlS' No. 2120 (Bomeo), cultivated in the Buitenzorg 

 Gardens, formerly determined by Engler but not mentioned in his monograph, 

 is distinguished as follows: Leaves with the pétiole shorter than the lamina, 

 3 — 7'/2 cm. long, sheathing half or more than half its length, dirty-red, or 

 green towards the apex, the anterior side flattened and provided with 2 

 opposite, horizontally spreading, slightly undulated, red (afterwards green), 

 narrowly wing-like crests passing gradually into the lowest primary veins; 

 lamina when fresh firm-herbaceous, when dry thinner, 7 — 14 X 3'/2 — 6'/2 

 cm., the upper surface when fresh dark-green, copiously but very minutely 

 pale-puncticulate and foveolate, pale-green at the often falcate-acuminate apex, 

 provided with 4 longitudinal rows of commonly (though not invariably) 

 confluent, pale-grey-green, irregularly lacerated spots, the 2 inner rows placed 

 closely along the green costa, the 2 outer rows about medial between the 

 Costa and the margin, minutely verruculose on the spots; primary veins 6— 9 

 on a side, Spathe with the tube to 3 cm. long, olive-green, somewhat darker- 

 striated, copiously but very minutely pale-puncticulate; blade to 6 cm. long, 

 very pale-green, pale-dirty-rosy towards the base, finely, longitudinally striated, 

 red-margined. Spadix 5^/4 — 8 cm. long; féminine inflorescence cylindrical 

 or very slightly conical, to 21/2 cm. long, to 4 mm. thick, the dorsal side 

 adnate to the spathe except at the oblique apex; ovaries ovate or oblong, 

 pale-green; stigma discoid, very pale-green or dirty-white, slightly 2—3- 

 lobed when young; staminodes clavate or shortly stipitate-obconoid, pale- 

 yellow-brown, partly scattered among the pistils, partly grouped at the apex 

 of the inflorescence, partly arranged in a long row encircling the oblique 

 base of the spadix; masculine inflorescence much elongated; fertile basai 

 portion subcylindrical, to 2V4 cm. long, to 3 mm. thick at the middle, 

 thickened slightly towards the base and apex and passing gradually into 

 the thicker basai and apical portions of the spadix, pale-rosy (the thecae 

 nearly white, the connective rosy); stérile apical portion elongate-conoid- 

 fusiform, to 5^/4 cm. long, to 4 mm, thick below the middle, narrowed 

 gradually towards the subacute apex, when young rosy-orange, soon pale- 

 orange, finally pale-brown-orange, sometimes nudate at the very apex (des- 

 titute of staminodes); staminodes clavate, rounded at the apex, irregularly 

 4— 6-angular when seen from above. — Material of NiEUWENHUlS' No. 

 1991, occurring in the Buitenzorg Herbarium, has the pétiole to 8 cm. long, 

 sheathing '/a 'ts length, the lamina to 17X9 cm. 



Scindapsus roseus, V. A. V. R. 



Caudex scandens, internodiis + 4 cm. longis, 2 mm. crassis. Foliorum 

 petiolus 30 — 40 cm. longus, fere usque ad geniculum + 2 cm. longum vel 

 paullo brevius vaginatus; vagina coriacea, a basi apicem versus sensim 

 angustata, decidue scarioso-marginata; lamina in sicco crassiuscula, coriacea, 



