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naleni formantes. Pedunculi levitk angulati, muli. Flores parvi et inconspicui, flavi, admodilm fragrantes, pcdicellati. Pedicellis 

 breves, suffulti bracted membranacea, lanceolata, plicata, dorso subcarinata, sub fructu elongata. Perianthium ovarii apici pariim 

 oblique impositum, infundibuliformi-patentiusculum, vix duas lineas longum, 6-partitum ; lacini(e lineares, planiuscula?, cuspidato-acutse, 

 seriebus duabus alternatim dispositse, basi conniventes, apice parfim patentes ; interiores 3 vix angustiores. Labellum nullum. 

 Stamina 3, quorum 2 antherifera stylo supra basin lateraliter adfixa, eodem parallela, adscendentia. Filamenta brevissima, subulata. 

 Anthers erects, oblongte, basi obliqufe acutse, filamento fere duplo longior, sulco medio notata?, longitudinalit^r dehiscentes, valvulis 

 mhx introrsum volutis. Stamen sterile stylo antic^, inter fertilia insertum, parhm ulterihs adnatum, planiusculum, obtusum, nudum. 

 Ovarium oblongo-cylindricum, obsoletissimfe 3-angulare, utrinque acutum, unguiculare, pedunculo plurifes longius, 3-loculare, po- 

 lysporum ; oviila plurima, axi inserta. Stylus teres, rectus, staininibus pari!im longior. Stigma convexiusculum, obsoletissim^ 3-lobum. 

 Capsula pollicaris, gracilis, fusca, nitida, 3-locularis, seminibus copiosis, minutis, globosis, atris. 



This curious plant has been found only at Noakote in Nipal, a small valley distant about one day's journey from 

 Katmandu, and much less elevated, and therefore much warmer, than the great valley. My people brought me fresh 

 specimens in flower and with unripe capsules in April 1821, while I was in that country. The flowers are very fra- 

 grant, like those of Webera corymhosa of Willdenow. 



Mr. Brown, who has favoured me with the highly important observations given above, and to whom I beg to ex- 

 press my warmest thanks, was disposed at first to consider my plant as identical with that discovered by the celebrated 

 Professor Blume on Mount Salak in Java. Subsequent examinations have, however, satisfied him that they are 

 distinct species; a circumstance, indeed, which was anticipated from the great difference of their geographical 

 position. I must therefore request the reader to alter the name of Apostasia odorata of Plate 84 to A. JFallichii, 

 which Mr. Brown has done me the honour to give to the Nipal plant. The specific character of the Java plant, ex- 

 tracted by permission from the manuscript of this illustrious botanist, I shall here subjoin : 



''Apostasia odorata, antherarum lobis posticis eequalibus, filamento tertio castrato." — Brown MSS. 

 Apostasia odorata, Blume Bydr. p. 423. 



Plate LXXXIV. Fig. 1. Flower. 2. The same dissected. 3. Style and stamens. 4. A flower, with the perianthium expanded, 

 in order to show the internal parts. 5. Nearly ripe capsule divided horizontally. 6. A detached stamen. 7- Pollen. 8. Style, 

 with barren stamen reflected to show the indication of the two cells. 9. Seeds, one of which is divided longitudinally. 



APOSTASIA NUDA. Tab. 85. 



Antherarum lobis posticis aequalibus, filamento tertio nullo. — Brown MSS. 



Apostasia nuda. Brown MSS. 



Habitat in montibus insulae Penang, florens Octobri. Georgius Porter. 



Habitus omninb Apostasioe JVallichii, Brown, sed gracilior et statura elevatior. Omnes partes glaberrimae. Fibr^ radicales nume- 

 rosiores quam in ilia specie, fibrillosse et subramulosce. Caulis strictus, gracilis, pedalis, l|-pedalis, e basi ssepihs foliosus, vaginis bre- 

 vibuSj nervosis indutus. Folia valdfe numerosa et approximata, undiqufe erecto-patentia, angusto-linearia, attenuato-acuminatissima, basi 

 contracta iterumque pauUJ) dilatata, plana, 5 — 6-pollicaria, 5-nervia, lineata, subtiis glauca, suprema breviora. Racemi terminales, pauci, 

 brevfe pedunculati, simplices, decurvato-patentes, fructiferi deflexi, folia suprema longitudine aequantes. Pedunculus obsitus hracteolis 

 vald^ copiosis, subquadrifarife imbricatis, adpressis, lineari-lanceolatis, acuminatis, 3-nerviis, persistentibus. Flores minimi flavi. Ovarium 

 et perianthium ut in altera specie. Stamina 2 prope basin styli inserta. Anthers magnse, ovato-subcordatse, basi sequales. Stamen 

 STERILE nullum. Stylus gracilis, stamina longitudine sequans. Stigma obsolete 3-lobum. 



This species differs from the Nipal plant in the absence of the barren ^tamen, in the posterior lobes of the anthers 

 being equal, and in the bracteated peduncles of the racemes. Its stature is taller and slenderer, the leaves shorter and 

 much narrower. 



Plate LXXXV. Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Stamen detached. 3. Pollen. 4 & 5. Different views of the style, with corresponding 



plans, showing the relative position of the parts of the flower. 



