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Perianthium patens vel recurvum. Stamina 2 laterales solum 
perfecta, staminum posticum castratum vel omnino deficiens. 
Racemi patentes vel recurvi, ssepe ramosi. Flores parvi. 
2. Apostasia, Blume. 
1. NEUWIEDIA, Blume. 
Nreuwrepra, Blume in Ann. Sc. Nat. sér. 2, ii. (1834), p. 93. 
—Perianthium subconnivens, segmentis subzqualibus. Sepala 
lanceolata, Petala extus carinata, ezterum sepalis similis. La- 
bellum petalis paullo latius, cæterum simile. Columna brevis. 
Anthere perfecte 3, stipitate, angustee, versatiles, loculis paral- 
lelis contiguis, 2 ad latera styli, tertium posticum ; pollen granu- 
losum. Stylus ad apiee columne erectus, elongatus, apice in 
discum parvum antrorsum obliquum stigmatosum dilatatum. 
Ovarium perfecte 3-loeulare. Capsula ovoideo-triquetra, bre- 
viter rostrata.— Herb: terrestres rhizomati brevi, caule erecto 
simplici foliato. Folia longa in petiolum contracta, venis elevatis 
percursa. Racemus terminalis, densus, simplex, sepe elongatus. 
Flores mediocres, breviter pedicellati. Bractee anguste, flores 
interdum superantes.— Blume in Hoev. et De Vr. Tijdschr. i. 
(1834), 140 *; Schnizl. Iconogr. i. t. 67. figs. 15-18; Benth. in 
Journ. Linn. Soc. xvii. 360; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. 
iii. 635. 
Species 6, ranging from Penang and Malacca through the 
Malayan Archipelago to the Philippines and New Guinea. 
* 1. N. VERATRIFOLIA, Blume in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 2, ii. (1834), 
94.—* Planta caule simplici inferne radicante, omnino habitus 
ejusdem ae qusedam Calanthe, foliis lato-lanceolatis nervoso 
plicatis, racemo terminali puberulenti, floribus breviter pedicel- 
latis unibracteatis flavescentibus.”— Blume. “ Racemo elongato 
sparsifloro, bracteis herbaceis acutis, ovariis fusiformibus velu- 
tinis, labello ligulato per axin linea carnoso carinato.”—Reichb. f. 
— Blume in Hoev. et De Vr. Tijdschr. i. (1834), 142; Reichb. f. 
in Bonpl. v. 58; Mig. Fl. Ind. Bat. ii. 748. . l 
Hab. Java: “in sylvis montorum altiorum Javæ occidentalis, 
licet rarissime; ego certe semel tantum mense Julio plantam 
* The paper here cited is the same as theone at the head of the genus. 
Both appeared in the same year, but I am not certain which of them has 
priority. The same remark also applies to N. veratrifolia, Blume. 
