346 Bulle tin Jard. Bot. Bui tenzorg, Série 111, Vol. IV. Livr. 2. 



oblong, 12'/2— 17'/2 cm. long, 5— T'/a cm. broad, the upper surface dark- 

 greeii, with a very broad, paler band on each side near the undulated 

 margin, under surface paie-green, subglaucous, the base blunt or somewhat 

 emarginate, the apex acuminate; primary and secondary veins 12—20 on 

 a side, arcuate-ascending, prominent, subequal, separated by finer tertiary 

 ones, al! united by very fine, transversal quaternary ones. Peduncle ± 1'/, cm. 

 long. Spathe rather thick, suddenly much thickened at the gorge on the 

 inner dorsal side; tube obliquely oblong, ± 2 cm. long, T/2 cm. diam., 

 green ; lamina cylindraceous, ± 5 cm. long, pale-green, dark-green-acuminate. 

 Spadix ± 5'/2 cm. long; féminine inflorescence obliquely conoid, ir 1' /a cm. 

 ong, 6 mm. thick at the oblique base which is surrounded by a row of 

 whitish, shortly stipitate, broadly obconoid (sublentiform) staminodes; 

 ovaries obovoid-oblong, very irregularly angular or lobed when seen from 

 above, green; higher ovaries apparently stérile, depressed ; stigma small, 

 subsessile, discoid, round, very pale-green; masculine inflorescence conoideo- 

 fusiform, ± 4 cm. long, 4 mm. thick above the obconically attenuated 

 base, narrowed gradually towards the bluntish apex; fertile basai portion 

 pale-yellow; stamina truncate and 2-foveolate at the apex; lower stamina 

 stérile, obconoid or shortly stipitate-sublentiform, whitish; stérile apical 

 portion as long as the fertile portion, yellow, the staminodes truncate and 

 irregularly 4— 6-angular at the apex. 



The description is taken from a living spécimen cultivated in the 

 Buitenzorg Oardens. 



Bornéo. (NiEUWENHUlS No. 1Q68). 



Scindapsus Beccarii, ENGL., in Bot. Jahrb., I, 182; in BECC, Mal., I, 

 277; in Pflzrch., XXXVll (IV, 23 B), Arac.-Monster., 69, fig. 28. 



Var. lingganusj A forma typica differt dimensionibus omnibus mino- 

 ribus. Foliorum petiolus 6-15 cm. longus, vagina late, decidue scarioso- 

 marginata; lamina oblanceolata 12—27 X 4—9 cm., supra médium latissima; 

 venae numerosae, secundariae, tertiariae quaternariaeque quam primariae 

 sensim graciliores, omnes in sicco + prominentes. Pedunculus usque 5 cm. 

 longus. Spatha usque 6 cm. longa, l'/a cm. ampla, acuminata, alba. Spadix 

 usque 4 cm. longus, 1 cm. crassus, eburneus. — Lingga Archipelago: 

 Poeloe Singkep, near Manggoe, in forest, ait. 60 m. (H. A. B. BiJNNE- 

 MEIJER No. 7184, 2 August 1919). 



Scindapsus altissimus, V. A. V. R. 



Sc\ cnscuarioideo Enol. & Kr. affinis. - Caudex usque 40 m. alte 

 scandens. Foliorum petiolus 35—50 cm. longus, usque l'/.-^' ^ cm. infra 

 geniculum vaginatus; vagina coriacea, persistens ; lamina coriacea, sub- 

 rotundato- ad ovato-oblonga, 17-50X9-30 cm., plus minusve inaequila- 

 tera, altero latere maxime fere l'.-plo latiore; venae innumerabiles, 



