288 MR. R. A. ROLFE ON THE APOSTASIER. 
Nieymera stylidioides, F. Muell. Fragm. Phyt. Austral. vi. 
(1867-8), 96. 
Hab. N.E. Australia: Rockingham Bay ; F. Mueller! 
Plant 6-8 in. high. Leaves 3-6 in. long by 13-3 lin. broad. 
Racemes 1-2 in. long. Bracts 1-2 lin. long. Ovary 4 lin. long, 
elongating somewhat in fruit. Perianth-segments 13 lin. long. 
A much smaller plant than the preceding, with shorter and 
narrower leaves and smaller and narrower perianth-segments. 
Both Reichenbach and Bentham, while describing the anther- 
bases as unequal, say that the staminode is absent, the former 
also so figuring it. Bentham, however, while saying that it 
agrees with A. nuda in the absence of the barren stamen, adds, 
* except that in some flowers I find the style abortive, or nearly 
so, and replaced, as it were, by a staminode." My observations, 
however, do not agree with those of these two authors, and, as all 
worked with the same materials, there should be no discrepancy 
on this point. I have very carefully examined four flowers, one, 
atleast, having probably been examined by Bentham, as it was 
placed in a small capsule. In all four the staminode was un- 
doubtedly present, but almost entirely adnate to the style, and 
hence perhaps previously overlooked. The apex, however, is 
free, or like a minute tooth, and down either side between the 
staminode and the style is a most distinet groove; while at the 
base the insertion of the staminode is precisely as in A. Wallichit, 
R. Br. (see Pl. XLVIII. fig. 23). Nor did I observe any difference 
in the flowers examined, all seemed quite normal, and unmistakably 
those of the section Mesodactylus. 
Sect. 2. AnacTYLUs, Endl. Gen. Plant. i. 221.—Staminis tertii 
vestigium nullum. Anthere basifixe; antherarum loculi 
basi :equales. 
4. A. Lonzi, Reichb. f. in Flora, lv. (1872), 2978.— Folia lineari- 
lanceolata, acuminata, subpatentia. Racemus breve pedunculatus, 
basi multibracteatus, ramosus, recurvo-nutantis. Bracteæ subu- 
lato-lineares, acute. Ovarium sessile. Perianthii segmenta li- 
nearis, cuspidata. Filamenta brevia ; antherz sagittato-lineares, 
acute, vulgo cohærentiæ. 
Hab. Borneo ; Lobb (ex Reichb. f.) ; Forests of Labuan ; Lobb 
(in Herb. Kew)! Bangarmassing, Borneo; Motley, n. 840! 
Plant 13 ft. high. Racemes 24 in. long, elongating in fruit. 
