Distribution: 



Java: Bantam in the mountains. (Nom. inc. Honje leuweung. (BLUME). 

 East-Java, 150—400 M. in forest common. (ZOLLINGER, 2296)! 



This species as yet unknown to the writer might be a variety of N. 

 speciosa. The fruiting specimen formerly cultivated in the Bot. garden (T, 

 et B! Cat. 1866) resembles it, and so does a specimen the Herbarium 

 owes to Mr. KOORDERS, given by Mr. Ridley, cultivated in the Singapore 

 garden. A badly preserved specimen collected in East-Java by ZOLLINGER 

 and distributed with this name is however certainly different, the slender 

 peduncle sericeo-tomentose at its upper end, is very conspicuous, the leaves 

 are ciliate. The first named character is mentioned by SCHUMANN, not by 

 BLUME, the second one by BLUME. This specimen is the only one of a 

 Nicolaia collected in East-Java, represented in our Herbarium. 



The name hemisphaerica pointing to the shape of the inflorescence 

 is rather ambiguous. One may have in mind a halfsphere either with the 

 convex side upward or downward. The first case we find in N. speciosa 

 Bl. and it is formed by the patent exterior bracts and the conical or 

 hemisphaerica! centralpart. The latter case is found in Nicolaia a tropurpurea. 

 Evidently the former explication is meant by BLUME, so the species must 

 be near to N. speciosa BL. 



Nicolaia Hcyniana VAL. 11. sp. (Tab. 3.) 



Herba elata, 4 m. alta, glabra. Caulis + 25 mm. crassus. 



Folia magna, nunc 650X170, (herba nondum adulta), subsessilia (pet. 

 3—5 mm.) late oblonga, apice obtusa, breviter apiculata, basi subrotundata 

 glaberrima, crasse membranacea margine minutissime pilosulo-ciliata, albida 

 vel rubra, in vivo odorem penetrantem Nicolaiae speciosae erhalantia in 

 sicco supra grisea subtus avellanea. 



Ligula ovata apice truncata, angulis rotundatis, summo apice minute 

 pilosula, dorso ad insertionem petioli tuberculata, 15 mm. longa in vivo 

 rubra in sicco nervosula. Vaginae striulatae. 



Inflorescentia capitata, ovata vel.elliptica, subfusiformis, toro parvo brevi 

 (in statu florente), pedunculo brevi semper curvato. Squamae pedunculares 

 in bracteas involucrales transeuntes bifariae subunilaterales, imbricatae obo- 

 vato-oblongae apice rotundatae et obcordatae in sinu mucronatae, sub. 

 rigidae glaberrimae, in vivo rubrae, bracteae externae cucullato-apiculatae j 

 65X^0. Bracteae florales oblongae 55X20 — 50X^0. Flores sessiles 

 numerosi aequilongi bracteis arete inclusi modo Honistedtiae labello tantum 

 exserto. Bracteola mox spathaceo-fissa lobo acuto minute 3-dentato ve| 

 apice bifido. 



. Calyx apice obtusus minute 3-dentatus. Petala linearia subaequalia apice 

 subtruncata 25 X 4—5, Tubus communis + 30 mm. longus. Labellum auriculis 

 magnis rotundatis convolutis, explanatum rhomboideum 15 X 15 jn limbum 

 (appendiculum K. SCH.) ellipticum ipso fere aequilongum 10 mm. latum in 

 vivo crispulo-marginatum productum. 



