Tab. 7368. 

 NEUWIEDIA Lindleyi. 



Native of the Malayan Peninsula. 



Nat. Ord. OuchidejE. — Tribe Apostasies. 

 Genus Neuwiedia, Blume ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. vol. iii. p. 635). 



Neuwiedia Lindleyi; elata, foliis lineari-lanceolatis oblanceolatisve acumi- 

 natis, scapo 2-3-pedali, racemo elongato puberulo dense rnultifloro, 

 bracteis lineari-lanceolatis flores subsequantibus inembranaceis erectis et 

 recurvis. 



N. Lindleyi, Bolfe in Journ. Linn. Soc. vol. xxv. p. 232, 241, t. 48, f. 10-12. 

 SooJc.f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vol. vi. p. 175. 



The singular Malayan genus Neuwiedia is here for the 

 first time figured from a living specimen. It was founded 

 by Blume in 1834 on a Javan plant (N. veratrifolia) of 

 which only two specimens were seen, a flowering and a 

 fruiting, and of which the descriptions (his own, and a 

 later by Reichenbach) are very incomplete, and are in- 

 sufficient to distinguish it from some later described 

 species. The genus comprises five more or less imper- 

 fectly distinguished species, namely JV. Zollingeri of Java 

 and N. Griffithii of Malacca, both of Beichenbach, 

 N. calanthoides, Ridley, from New Guinea, JV. Gurtisii, 

 Rolfe, of Penang and Sumatra, and the subject of the 

 accompanying plate. The tribe to which it belongs, 

 Apostasiex, has been the subject of an elaborate memoir 

 by Mr. Kolfe, in the Journal of the Linnaean Society, cited 

 above. In it Mr. Rolfe rightly separates the Apostasies 

 from Cypripediese, with which they are united in the 

 " Genera Plantarum," and the above enumerated species 

 are all described. 



iV. Lindleyi was received at the Royal Gardens, Kew, 

 in July, 1887, from Mr. Ridley, F.L.S., Superintendent 

 of the Singapore Gardens, and (as Mr. Watson informs 

 me) developed its flowers very slowly in midwinter, 1893-4. 



August 1m, i 



