Van Alderwerelt van Rqsenburgh : Malayan Araccae 3. 345 



The description is tai<en from spécimens with young, not yet entirely 

 developed flowers and ripe berries. It may be possible that this species 

 is identical with Sch. Wallicliii Hk. F. var.fasciafa RiDL., of which, however, 

 the 1-Iined description is too brief and incomplète for détermination 



Pulo Lingga: Resoen, road-side, ait. 60 m. (H. A. B. BiiNNEMEljER 

 No. 6782, 18 July 1919). 



Schismatoglottis bifasciata, EnGL., in Pflzrch., LV (IV, 23 Da), Arac- 

 Homal.-Schism., 107, fig. 66. 



A plant from Bornéo (NiEUWENHUlS No. 1311), cultivated in the 

 Biiitenzorg Gardens, having flowered August 1921, which may be this 

 species, is distinguished from Engler's diagnosis and figure by the follow- 

 ing characters: Leaves with the pétiole green, sheathing about '/g its 

 length, terete, the upper side longitudinally rugose, slightly canaliculate 

 towards the apex, the lower side smooth ; lamina sagittate-cordate, ± 15 — 25 

 X 7'/2 — 12'/2 cm., the 2 bands pale-grey-green or pale-yellow-green, with 

 the base not reaching the margin but suddenly hamato-incurved near the 

 margin, with the point reaching the base of the costa ; primary veins less 

 numerous, the secondary ones partly finer than the primary ones, partly 

 nearly as stout; tertiary and quaternary veins distinctly finer. Peduncle 

 green, longitudinally rugulose. Spathe somewhat longer, the tube green, 

 the lamina pale-yellow-green. Spadix longer ; féminine inflorescence 3 — 4 cm. 

 long, 7 — 8 mm. thick, the lower '/s — '/2 P^^^ connected with the spathe; 

 ovaries crowded, cylindraceo-lageniform, dirty-white, the higher, however, 

 lax, oviform, white; stigma about as broad as the ovary, white ; staminodes 

 + l'/2 X as long as the ovaries, white, obconoid, long-stalked, the apex 

 truncate; masculine inflorescence long-fusiform-cylindraceous, 5— 5'/2 cm. 

 long, 6 — 8 mm. thick, the fertile basai portion obconoid, l'/2~2 cm. long, 

 pale-brown-yellow, with the lower stamens intermixed with a few oblong 

 or truncate-conical neuter organs, the stérile apical portion bright-yellow, 

 bluntish or rounded at the apex, the staminodes subprismatical, often very 

 irregularly laterally connected. 



The spadix preserved in alcohol has the stalks of the lower staminodes, 

 the neuter organs, the filaments and the higher staminodes provided with 

 dark, brown, short stripes or points. 



Schismatoglottis latevaginata, Engl., Pflzrch., LV (IV, 23 Da), Arac- 

 Homal.-Schism., 106. 



Caudex short, erected. Leaves with the pétiole 5 — 7'/2 cm. long, 

 green, sheated ^j^ — ^/j its length, the anterior side flattened or more or 

 less canaliculate and 2-marginate (narrowly winged) beyond the sheath; sheath 

 broad, the apex narrowed on one side, broadly rotundate-truncate on the 

 other side, at length more or less dilacerated ; lamina firm-herbaceous. 



