Særtrvk af Botanisk Tid:=skiift -24. Bind 3. Hefte, tøbenhavn l'JO-2. 



ArlDejder fra den Botaniske Have i Kol^enhavn. Nr. 5. 



Podostemaceae 



by Eug. Warming — Gopeuliagen. 



The Danish Expedition has been so fortunate as to find a new 

 Podostemacea, the first known from Siam. As far as I can see it 

 is a new species, hi habit, size, the structure of stem, form of leaf 

 and more particularly in the flower having only one stamen it 

 much resembles the Fodosfemon metzyerio'ides published by Tri men 

 in 1892 (Handbook of the Flora of Ceylon, part III, p. 419, pi. 76), 

 which latter, however, differs widely from it in other respects and 

 is now (1900) placed under a new genus Farmeria by Dr. John 

 Willis (see Trimen's Handbook part V. Additions p. 286). Strangely 

 enough during the last few years there has been found a third 

 monandrous Fodostemacea in Asia (Java), viz. Cladopns Nymani 

 Hj. Moller, and in some points the Siamese Fodostemacea approaches 

 close to this species also. 



I have named the new Siamese .species Fol ij pi eu mm Schmidtia- 

 niim in honour of the finder. 



Regarding the reasons why I prefer recording Hooker and 

 Bent ham's subgenus FohjpJeunim as a distinct genus and prefer 

 placing the new Siamese species under it I beg to refer to my 6"" 

 paper on the order Fodostemuceae in the „Kgl. Danske Videnska- 

 bernes Selskabs Skrifter" 1901, where both Fobjpleurum ScJimidtia- 

 nnm and Cladopus Nymani are figured. 



I give the following diagnosis of it: — 



Poly pleur urn. 

 P. Schinidtianum Warmg. n. sp. 



Radices in rupibus repentes, iisdem arete adpressæ, late lineares, 

 planæ, irregulariter subdistiche ramosæ. Gaules in facie superiore 

 radicum prope margines nascentes brevissimi, foliis paucis (ad 5 — 6) 

 instrncti. Folia disticha simplicia, linearia, obtusa. Flos in caulibus 

 solitarius terminalis, primum inter folia duo ad basin in vagina 

 ampliata occultus , dein emergens longe pedicellatus. Spathella 



