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Homalomena (Flowers borne)

Flowers borne on an inappendiculate spadix, which is included in the spathe, and often shortly stipitate, the male inflorescence cylindrical or fusiform, the female shorter and narrower; spathe straight, cylindrical or convolute below, the lamina convolute or gaping, acuminate. Leaves ovate-or triangular-cordate or lanceolate; petioles often elongated and long-sheathing. To the species described on p. 149, Vol. II., the following should now be added:

H. insignis (remarkable). fl., spathe green, 3 1/2in. to 4in. long, obtusely keeled at back, the apex compressed-rostrate; spadix white, 3in. long. l. 1ft. long, 6in. broad, elliptic-oblong, obtuse and shortly mucronate, rounded at base, green above, suffused purple beneath; petioles fuscous-purple, channelled, 3in. to 5in. long, sheathed to the middle. Borneo, 1885. (I. H. 1885, 560.) H. Siesmeyerianum (Siesmeyer's). fl., spathe purplish-red outside, white within, the tube and limb indistinguishable; peduncle purplish-red. l. slightly sagittate, the veins, midrib, and margin beneath, tinted red; petioles purplish-red, long, glabrous. Malaya, 1885.