graphs that will show the plant and its methods of dehiscence much 

 better we think than the figures that have previously appeared. 



CLATHRUS TREUBII (Fig. 161). Through the kindness of 

 Dr. Ch. Bernard, Chief of the Biological Division of the Department 

 of Agriculture of lava, we are enabled to present a photograph of 



this rare species of Java. It 

 was described only last year 

 (1906). and is' evidently 

 rare in Java, as it is not in- 

 cluded in Penzig's excellent 

 paper on the phalloids of 

 this island. Clathrus Treubii 

 was described as Clathrella 

 Treubii. and while we feel 

 that the genus Clathrella is 

 not a good genus, this spe- 

 cies would be a Clathrus on 

 the disposition of the arms 

 at the base, the distinction 

 on which Clathrella was 

 based. Clathrella Treubii is 

 a red plant, very similar in 

 general appearance to Clath- 

 rus cancellatus and very 

 different in the structure of 

 the arms. In Clathrus can- 

 cellatus the arms have a 

 simple, cellular structure, 

 and the inner cells are large 

 and irregular. In Clathrus 

 Treubii the arms are tubular 

 and are wrinkled evenly <m 

 the inner surface. I think- 

 there is no other species of 

 Clathrus known with these 

 peculiar wrinkles as shown in Dr. Bernard's excellent photograph. At 

 Kew 1 have seen a drawing of a Laternea (or a Pseudocolus) that was 

 made in Java by Zollinger many years ago. the arms of which are 

 wrinkled on the inner side as in this Clathrus. It was never published, 

 and is not included in any of the recent works on the Java phall< tids. 



THE PHALLOIDS OF JAVA. Dr. Ch. Bernard also favors 

 us with a statement in detail of the phalloids that occur at Buitenzorg, 

 Java. The phalloids of Java are mostly well known, owing to excel- 

 lent work done by Monsieur Penzig a few years ago. Mutinus bam- 

 businus. Phallus irpicinus, Phallus indusiatus. and Simblum gracile u * I 



.14 Dr. Bernard lists this under the name of the Mauritis species Simblum ;' 

 eriphraKmoides. but from the specimens I have seen the .Java form is so much 

 more slender than the Mauritus specimen that at least until more is known .>f tin- 

 Mauntus plant. I think it should be kept distinct as Berkeley considered it. 



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Fig. 161. 



