Van Alderwerelt van Rosenburgh : Malayan Ara ceac 3. 335 



The description is taken from a liviiig plant from Sumatra (Sibo- 

 langit, W. DOCTERS VAN LEEUWEN), cultivated in the Euitenzorg Gardens, 

 having flowered August 1921, — It may be possible that this is identical 

 with LoRZiNG's No. 5324, formerly determined by me as a form of //. 

 rubra Hassk., but the latter has the spadix distinctiy shorter than the spathe, 

 even when fruiting, and the différent portions of this hâve an aromatic 

 and not at ail an awfully stinking smell. 



Homalomena cnsiformis, V. A. V. R. — H. Miqueliana, SCHOTT, Enql. 

 8t Krause, in Pfizrch., LV (IV, 23 Da), Arac.-Homal.-Schism., 6Q, p.p. 



Enlwmalomcna. — Foliorum petiolus 17'/2— 30 cm. longus, ^U — ^U 

 longitudinis vaginatus ; lamina in sicco subcoriacea, elongato-lanceolata, 

 quam lata 5— 7-plo longior, 27'/2— 40 X 4—8 cm., supra médium latis- 

 sima, basin acutam vel late rotundato-cuneatam et abrupte breviterque 

 acuminatam (in specimine nec subtruncatam, nec emarginatam) versus 

 sensim angustata, apice longiuscule acuteque acuminata, graciliter apiculata; 

 venae omnes distinctius prominentes, erecto-patentes, apicem versus sursum 

 arcuatae, longe procurrentes ; venae primariae 5 — 6 utrinque ; venae 

 secundariae, tertiariae, quaternariaeque sensim graciliores. Pedunculus 

 20—25 cm. longus. Spatha 9—12 cm. longa, paullo infra médium 

 contracta, tubo oblongo, usque 5'/2 cm. longo, lamina cylindraceo-conoidea, 

 usque ô'/a cm. longa, acuta. Spadix stipite 3 — 5 mm. longo suffultus, 

 6 — 8 cm. longus ; inflorescentia feminea fusiformi-cylindracea, usque 

 2^/4 cm. longa, '/a cm. crassa, staminodiis crassis, depresso-globosis, 

 graciliter longe stipitatis, pistilla aequantibus ; ovaria conoideo-lageniformia 

 vel -ovoidea, 3-!ocularia ; stigma magnum, late discoideum, + rotundum, 

 fovea centrali, 3-radiata (sub-3-angulosa) obscure lobatum ; inflorescentia 

 mascula a feminea interstitio brevi, nudo vel floribus paucis, sparsis, partim 

 sterilibus, partim fertilibus munito separata ; flores masculi 3- vel saepius 

 4-andri ; stamina brevissima, thecis sub connectivo crasso, apice truncato, 

 anguloso absconditis. 



Near M. Miqiieliana SCHOTT. 



Bornéo. ( HALLlER No. 1465). 



Homalomena Miqueliana, SCHOTT, in Ann. Mus. Bot. L. B., 126; EnGL. 

 & Krause, in Pfizrch., LV (IV, 23 Da), Arac.-Homal.-Schism., 69, fig. 44. 



SCHOTT's original diagnosis of this species differs from the description 

 and partly from the figure given by Engler and KRAUSE principally as 

 follows: Leaves with the pétiole 22'/2— 27'/2 cm. long; lamina linear-obiong, 

 20— 27'/2 X 5— 7' /a cm., the edges parallel except in the upper '/g portion, 

 the base abruptiy contracted, subtruncate with a rounded angle (i. e. broadly 

 rotundate-cuneate-subtruncate), the very base very shortly cuneate, the apex 

 subabruptly cuspidate-acuminate. Peduncle 15—20 cm. long. Spadix with 



