244 A. Engler. — Araceae-Aroideae. 



subito in laminam inferne ovatam 2 cm longam 1,5 cm latam dilatatus, lamina in 

 caudam angustissimam lifleari-lanceolatam marginibus inflexis instructam demum subuli- 

 formem 1,5 dm longam contracta. 



Nota. Descriptio ex delineatione cli. Beccari, qui plantam ipsam conservare non potuit. 

 Monsungebiet. 



Südwestmalayische Provinz. — Borneo: Sarawak (Beccari). 



25. C. johorensis Engl. n.sp. — Caudiculus ca. 5 — 6 mm crassus, internodiis brevibus. 

 Foliorum petiolus 0,5 — 1 dm longus ad 2 — 3 cm longitudinis vaginatus, lamina utrinque 

 viridis cordato-ovata, acuta vel breviter et acute acuminata, circ. 5 cm longa et 3 cm 

 lata, lobis posticis 4 — 5 mm longis, margine densiuscule vel remotius denticulata, nervis 

 lateralibus I. utrinque 3 infra medium a costa abeuntibus arcuatim adscendentibus. 

 Pedunculus usque 2 cm longus; spathae tubus inferior elongato-oblongus circ. 2 cm 

 longus, 6 mm amplus, superior 7 — 8 cm longus, inferne 3 mm, superne 4 mm amplus, 

 in laminam basi ovato-lanceolatam 1,2 cm latam atropurpuream 3 cm longam et in 

 cuspidem 1 dm longam angustissimam productam transiens. Spadicis inflorescentia 

 feminea a mascula 3 — 4 mm longa interstitio circ. 1 cm longo separata. 



Nota. Haec species ex herbario Singapore sub nomine C. pontederiifolia distributa est, 

 at ab ea, cujus spatha incognita est, differt foliorum lamina minore atque minute denticulata. 

 Monsungebiet. 



Südwestmalayische Provinz. — Malakka: zwischen Gunong Pu lai und Johore 

 (Native Collector in Herb. Malay Peninsula, State of Johore n. 3721 — Herb. Singapore, 

 Herb. Calcutta). 



26. C. caudata N. E. Brown jn Journ. Linn. Soc. XVIII. (1880) 242, t. 4. — 

 Foliorum petioli 0,5—1,5 dm longi basi vaginati, lamina supra obscure viridis subtus 

 pallida, cordato-ovata, acutiuscula vel obtusiuscula, 6 — 6,5 cm longa, 3 — 4 cm lata, 

 margine crispulo eroso-dentata, nervis lateralibus I. utrinque 4 arcuatim adscendentibus, 

 2 prope basin, 2 infra medium a costa abeuntibus, venis remotiusculis inter nervös 

 transversis, inter venas bullata. Pedunculus brevissimus; spathae tubus pallidus, totus 

 5 — 6,5 cm longus, inferior inflorescentiam includens 1 cm longus, 6 mm amplus, superior 

 cylindricus 5 mm diametiens, sursum sensim ampliatus, lamina lanceolata cum cauda 

 subulata 1 — 1,2 dm longa. Spadicis inflorescentia feminea 6-gyna, pistillodiis 6 crasse 

 cuneiformibus pistillis accumbentibus superata, ab inflorescentia mascula 3 mm longa 

 interstitio nudo 1,3 cm longo separata, appendix conoidea vix 2 mm longa. Pistillorum 

 ovarium elongato-oblongum in stiluin paullum breviorem extrorsum curvatum, stigmate 

 lineari-oblongo instructum attenuatum. 



Monsungebiet. 

 Südwestmalayische Provinz. — .Nord-Borneo: am Lawas-Fluß (Burbidge — 

 Herb. Brit. Mus.). 



27. C. Beckettii Thwaites msc. ex Trimen in Journ. of bot. XXIII. (1885) 269; 

 Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. VI. (1893) 493; Trimen, Handb. Fl. of Ceylon IV. (1898) 347. — 

 Caudiculus ramosus, 3 — i mm crassus, internodiis superioribus 3 — 6 mm longis, in- 

 ferioribus longioribus. Foliorum petiolus ut costa purpureus teretiusculus, supra canalicu- 

 latus, 1 —2 dm longus, basi vaginatus, lamina supra obscure viridis lanceolato-oblonga 

 0,6 — 1 dm longa, basi obtusa vel leviter cordata apice subacuta, margine undulata, 

 nervis lateralibus I. utrinque 2 — 3 infra medium a costa semitereti abeuntibus ad- 

 scendentibus atque venis inter nervös obliquis subtus prominulis. Pedunculus brevis, 

 circ. 1,5 cm longus; spathae tubus inferior 1,5 cm longus, 4 mm amplus, tubus superior 

 2 — 2,5 cm longus, 2 — 2,5 mm amplus, in laminam lanceolatam leviter tortam breviter 

 caudatam 2,5 cm longam transiens. Spadicis inflorescentia feminea 5-gyna, a mascula 

 interstitio ea longiore separata, pistillodiis 5 obovoideis inter stilos inclusis superata. 

 Pistillorum ovarium oblongurn in stilum brevem leviter excurvum stigmate ovali in- 

 structum attenuatum. 



Nota. Descriptio e specimine culto horti Peradeniya, ubi ipse plantam collexi. Specimen 

 originale incompletum; spatha in Trimen, Handb. 1. c, descripta nimis juvencula. 



