Reduction of the Genera Schizopremna Baill. (verb.) and Worcesterianthus Merr. (Olacac.)

In a recent plant-geographical study of the Lesser Sunda Islands by Mr C. Kalkman the genus Schizopremna Baill. (1892), only known from a very brief diagnosis as an endemic genus from Timor (1897), passed again my attention. After Baillon nobody seems to have made a renewed study of the type. No specimen seems to be present in the general larger herbaria, also not Paris where Baillon’s original material should be preserved. Dr Moldenke, who has examined an enormous number of sheets kindly informed me that he had never found a specimen. Thanks to the cooperation of Dr H. Sleumer, Dr J. Leandri and Mr J. H. Kern I received on loan, from Baillon’s private herbarium, a tiny envelop containing one flower in the bud stage and a loose corolla of what is presumably the type, said to have been collected by Mr Jacquinot in Timor, and later the original sheet which was inserted in the Paris general Herbarium as a bis-genus at the end of the family.