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± ^/4 cm. crassus, fructifer paullo loiigior, apice ± attenuatus; ovaria ± 3 mm. 

 longa, 2-locularia, basi compressa, apice in sicco irregularia, in vivo probabi- 

 liter plus miniisve aiigulosa, depressa; ovula numerosa. a basi usque ad 

 apicem loculorum affixa; stigma vix elevatum, rotundato-disciforme; baccae 

 aurantiaco-luteae. glutinosae; semiiia multa, subcurvato-oblonga. 



This species is distiiiguished in having the groove of the pétiole, which 

 is somewhat longer than the pétiole itself, produced beyond the base of the 

 lamina, along the under- (not the iipper-) side of the costa, close to the 

 underside of one of the halfs of the lamina; the thickened margin of the 

 groove consists probably of the persistent base of a very caducous sheath. 

 — It was very difficult to make out the 2-locularity of the ovaries and it 

 was only possible to state, that the ovules are numerous, arranged from 

 the base of the loculi (loculus) to the apex, sothat it was also possible that 

 the spécimen belonged to a multi-ovulate Epipremniiin, but in the ripe fruit 

 it was very easy to be seen that the seeds are arranged in opposite rows 

 along both sides of a complète, central dissepiment. 



Ternate: Lagoena, in jungle, ait. 280 m. (V. M. A. BEGUIN No. 1250, 

 21 December 1920). 



Raphidophora pallidivcnia, V. A. V. R. 



Caudex scandens; internodia Hr 7'/2 cm. longa, primum viridia, demum 

 brunneo-grisea, puncticulis minutissimis, valde numerosis subopaca. Foliorum 

 petiolus 15—30 cm. longus, viridis, copiose, graciliter puncticulatus, supra 

 leviter canaliculatus, usque vel fere usque ad geniculum vaginatus; vagina 

 mox scariosa, dilacerata, decidens; geniculum l'/a— 3 cm. longum, gibbis 

 minutissime puncticuliformibus subasperulum, supra complicato-canaliculatum, 

 acute 2-marginatum ; lamina in vivo coriacea, lanceolata, 20—40 X 6—12 cm., 

 leviter inaequilatera, latere altero + l'/rP'o latiore, supra laete viridis, 

 perpallide marginata, nitida, valde copiose pallidius puncticulata, subtus 

 pallidior, costa venis primariisque perpallide viridibus; basi rotundato-cuneata, 

 laminarumminorum obtusiuscula, laminarum majorum acutiuscula, in margines 

 geniculi abrupte transiens; costa crassa, supra auguste canaliculata, subtus 

 valde prominens; venae primariae secundariaeque 13—18 utrinque, sub- 

 aequales, ^U—VJ2, raro 2 cm. distantes, supra impressae, subtus prominentes, 

 venis tertiariis quaternariisque gracillimis 4—10 interpositis. Pedunculus 

 71/2 — 10 cm. longus, viridis. Spatha mox exsiccata dilacerata, decidens. 

 Spadix sessilis, conoideo-cylindraceus, 6-8 cm. longus, l-'/4 — 2 cm. crassus, 

 apicem obtusum versus paullo attenuatus; ovaria + 4 — 5 mm. longa. basi 

 compressa, apice irregulariter 4— 6-angulosa, 2 — 3 mm. crassa, leviter 

 conoidea, subtruncata, perpallide flavido-viridula, subalba;ovaria4— 6suprema 

 in ovarium unum, valde irregulare, stigmatibus 4—6 coronatum connata; 

 stigma vix elevatum, parvum et subrotundum vel in ovariis inferioribus 

 superioribusque saepe elongatum, brunnescens vel nigro-fuscescens; semina 

 numerosa, placentis parietalibus 2, oppositis affixa. 



