344 Systematik und Pflanzengeographie. 



(M a X i m w i c z), circa sinum Possiet (Nasimo w), ad fl. Swifun (Golden- 

 städt). 8. Fritillaria Przewalskii Maxira. (Monocodon Baker), 

 proxima F. cirrhosae Don. Tangut: in alpibus Mudshik-tau, 9 — 11000' leg. 

 Przewalski 1880. 9. Allium Grimmi Rgl. , affine A. moschato. 

 Bulbos e Turkestania orientali misit A. Regel. 10. Metanarthecium 

 foliatum Maxim., habitu coloreque simile M. luteoviridi Maxim. 

 Nippon : in pratis , tractus Hakone verosimiliter, legit Tschonoski fructi- 

 ferum. v. Herder (St. Petersburg). 



Brown, N. E., Four New Genera of Aroideae. (Journ. 

 of Bot. New Ser. Vol. XL 1882. No. 235. p. 193—197.^ Tab. 

 230—231.) 



Pseudodracontium, p. 193: 



Spatlie hoat-chapecl , verij shortly convolute at the base. Spadix monoecious, 

 appendiculate , free, sessile; male and female porUons contiguous, appendix 

 stipitate, more or less deeply fissured. Perianth none. Ovaries free, crowded, 

 suhglohose (or ovoid?), one-celled ivith one basal, subsessile , erect, anatropous 

 ovule ; style very short, Stigma simple. Male flowers scattered, stamens 3 — 6, free 

 (or in some floivers more or less united in a colurnn) ; anthers continuous ivith 

 the filaments , subglobose or obcordate , dehiscing by two small, linear, oblique, 

 extrorse, subapical slits. Bootstock tuberous. Leaf solitary, contemporary tvith 

 the flowers, petiole very shortly vaginate at base, three-branched at apex , all 

 the branches pinnately divided , or the middle brauch reduced to one entire or 

 slightly lobed leaflet. Primary lateral veins of the leaflets numerous , parallel, 

 nearly streight , uniting in a continuous intramarginal vein, outside of tvhich 

 dose to the margin is a second intramarginal t^ein. Peduncle solitary, erect. 



Diese bemerkenswerthe Gattung gehört zu den Amorphophalleae 

 neben Thomsonia, ist wahrscheinlich auch mit dem schlecht be- 

 kannten Gorgonium nahe verwandt. — P. anomal um n. sp., p. 

 193, Tab. 231, fig. II; Cochinchina (Insel Phu Quoc?), nach Europa 

 eingeführt durch G. Leboeuf. — P. Lacourii,p. 194, (Amorpho- 

 phallus Lacourii Linden et Andr^, 111. hört. 1878, p. 90, t. 316); 

 Cochinchina (Insel Phu Quoc). 

 Rhektophyllum, p. 194: 

 Spathe tiibe closely convolute, cylindric; lamina boat-shaped, subacute. 

 Spadix monoecious, free, sessile, exappendiculate, the male and female portions 

 closely contiguous , flowers ivithout a perianth , densely croivded , no neuter 

 Organs. Ovary subglobose, or more or less angular by compression , one-celled, 

 witJi one suhsessile anatropous ovule, seated at ahout the middle of a pro- 

 jecting j^arietal 2}l(fce>ita. Stigma discoid, subsessile. Male flowers 3 — 5-androus ; 

 anthers sessile, obpyramidate prismatic , truncate ; anther-cells linear, as long 

 as the thick connective, deshiscing by p>ores at their Vertex. Ä stotit subepi- 

 p>hytical climber. Leaves long petioled , cordate-oblong in outline, perforate 

 and subpinnatipartite , or j^in'ic^tipc^^tite ; ^jrimary lateral veins stout, distant, 

 the three or four basal ones united and denuded at the sinus , more or less 

 horizontal or retrorse, the rest spreading or ascending, all nearly straight for 

 three-quarters of their length, then more or less abruptly curved up and 

 excurrent in a very slender intramarginal vein just tvithin the margin ; secon- 

 dary veins distant, ascending, slightly and gradually curved. Inflorescence 

 terminal. 



Diese Gattung ist mit Philodendron verwandt, ist aber durch 

 die Structur des Ovars und die Blattform sehr ausgezeichnet. — 

 R. mirabile n. sp., p. 195, Tab. 230; Fernando Po, G. Mann 

 n. 101, Barter. 



Gamogyne, p. 195: 



Spathe ellipsoid acute, closely convolute except a small op>ening a little 



below the apex , the upper portion deciduous after fertilisation in the form of 



the calyptra. Spadix monoecious, free, sessile, exappendiculate, male and 



female portions closely contiguous with an intermediate staminodiferous portion, 



