PLANTAE NOVAE VEL CRITICAE EX HERBARIO ET 



HORTO BOGORIENSI. IL 



Auctore J. J. SMITH. 

 (Tabula 4—10). 



Gymnosiphon aphyllum BL. Enum. I (1827), 29; MlQ. FI. Ind. Bat. 

 III (1855), 615; Kds. Exk. fi. I (1911), 344. (Burmanniaceae). Tab. 4. 



Planta florens ad c. 14 cm. alta Rhizoma brève, teres, c. 0.75 cm. 

 longum, squamis erecto-patentibus imbricatis subulatis dense obtectum, 

 radicibus tenuibus ramosis Caulis erectus, tenuis, pauciramosus, plus 

 minusve tortilis, internodiis ad c. 0.6 cm. longis, squamis parvis adpressis 

 ad patentibus triangulis vel late triangulis obtusis vel obtusissimis caulem 

 2/3 amplectentibus concavis. Pedunculus cauli similis, rectus, ad c. 7 cm. 

 longus, squamis laxioribus, cyma bi- interdum unibrachiata cum flore 

 terminal!, brachiis monochasium formantibus, laxe ad c ôfloris, rachide 

 flexuosa, tenui, ad c. 4 cm. longa. Bracteae rachidem 2/3 amplectentes, 

 valde cucullato-concavae, suborbiculares, obtusissime apiculatae, ad c. 0.23 

 cm. longae, superiores decrescentes. Flores patentes, c. 0.46 cm. diam., 

 cum ovario 0.83 cm. longi, pedicello tenui, c. 0.46 cm. longo. Tubus 

 floralis cylindricus, apicem versus attenuatus, c. 0.325 cm. longus, basi 

 c. 0.18 cm., apice 0.125 cm. diam. Sepala 3, divergentia, apice recurvula, 

 suborbicularia, obtusa, c. 0.24 cm. longa, disco ovato convexo, marginibus 

 latis incurvulis valde undulatis. Petala minima, supra antheram inserta, 

 lanceolata, apice vix incurvula, obtusiuscula, convexa, c. 0.08 cm. longa. 

 Antherae 3, petalis oppositae, in c. 0.35 cm. supra tubi basin insertae, sessiles, 

 transversae, c. 0.07 cm. latae, thecis rima transversa in valvas 2 dehiscentibus, 

 connectivo thecis breviore, subovato, obtuso, late subcanaliculato. Ovarium 

 inferum, turbinato-subcylindricum, apice vix constrictum, basi abrupte in 

 pedicellum contractum, c. 0.27 cm. longum, 0.175 cm. diam.; stylus cum 

 stigmatis c. 0.38 cm. longus, ad stigmata c. 0.075 cm. diam.; stigmata 

 divaricata, lata, marginibus incurvis et postice contiguis oblique infundibu- 

 liformia, margine antico crassiora, truncata, papillosa. Fructus turbinatus, 

 hyalinus, c 0.24—0.3 cm. longus, fere 0.2 cm. diam., tubo oblique curvulo 

 coronatus. 



Java: Megamendoeng. (Blume). Buitenzorg, Goenoeng Soenarari, 

 900-1000 m., in very shady forest. (C. A. Backer n. 6322, January 1913). 

 Goenoeng Gede near Djasinga, 800—1000 m., on decayed trees and in 



