338 BULLETIN JARD. BOT. BUITENZORG, SÉRIE 111, VOL. IV. LiVR. 2. 



The typical form of this species is unknown to me. — H. J. Lam's 

 No. 763 (New Guinea, near Pionier Bivak, in forest, ait. 10 m.,, 

 flowering August 1920) agrées perfectly in aspect (not in the dimensions) 

 with VersteeQ's No. 330, déterminée! by KRAUSE. It is distinguished from 

 the diagnosis and figure given by EnGLER as follows: Stem to 2 m. high 

 cMmbing, slender, when dry 3 mm. thick, the internodes 1—3 cm. long. 

 Leaves with the pétiole to 5 — 7V2 cm. long, sheathing commonly some- 

 what more than half its length, sometimes to the knee whichis'/2 — ^ cm- 

 long; lamina when dry thinly papyraceous, obovate, to 15 — 21 X5 — 8 cm., 

 broadest above the middle, somewhat unequal-sided, the apex generaliy 

 suddenly acutely acuminate, the base acute to biuntly rotundate-cuneate; 

 primary veins 10—15 on a side, separated by 5 — 9 secondary, tertiary and 

 quaternary veins that are becoming gradually finer. Spathe broadly ellipsoidal, 

 li/^_13|^ cm. long, hardly mucronulate-apiculate, when fresh pale-yellow 

 on the outer side, white on the inner side. Spadix broadly ellipsoidal-oblong, 



1 _ 11/^ cm. long, + half as thick, yellow-white, with the stigmata brown. — 

 Perhaps a distinct species. 



Raphidophora Kunstleri, HK. F., Flor. Br. 1., VI, 546; Engl. & Krause, 

 in ENGL., Pflzrch., XXXVil (IV, 23 B), 30. 



This species is unknown to me. A plant received from Malacca 

 (Perak, Ipoh, I. H. BURKILL No. 6267) under the name of Rhapliido- 

 phora Kunstleri, which may be this species, is distinouished from the diag- 

 nosis given by ENGLER and KRAUSE in having ail the dimensions much 

 smaller, the pétiole at best \V\^_ cm. long, when dry densely, minutely 

 puncticulate-asperulous, with the sheath persistent, the lamina 18 — 23 X 4'/2 

 — 6'/, cm., distinctly unequal-sided, the broadest side + l'/2Xas broad 

 as the other side, when dry beneath densely, minutely puncticulato-asperu- 

 lous except on the primary veins, the costa beneath asperulous and deci- 

 duously short-hairy, the peduncle and spadix smaller. 



Raphidophora parvifolia, V. A. V. R. 



Caudex usque + 4m. alte scandens. foliis in seriebus 2 oppositis contra 

 substratum appressis; internodia 1 — 2 cm. longa, 2'/2 — 3 mm. crassa, 

 puncticulis minutissimis, crebris subasperula. Foliorum petiolus brevissimus, 



2 — 3 mm. longus, paullo ultra basin laminae canaliculatus, sulco margine 

 incrassato; lamina in sicco flaccido-papyracea, glabra, breviter ovata vei 

 interdum breviter subovalis, 3 — 6X2 — 3'/2 cm., basf rotundata vel leviter 

 emarginata, apice obtusa vel obtusiuscula, brevissime decidueque apiculata; 

 Costa venae principalesque subtus prominentes; venae primariae secunda- 

 riaeque numerosae, vix diversae, 1 — 2 mm. distantes, venis tertiariis quater- 

 nariisque gracillimis, cum ceteris partim parallelibus, partim anastomosantibus 



interpositis. Pedunculus pro ratione crassus, 2'/2cm. longus. Spatha 



Spadix sessilis, conoideo-cylindraceus, florifer 4 cm. longus, supra basin 



