' Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 231 



It seems to be allied to C. harhaium, Lindl. No flowers were met 

 with, and further search was in vain as the place was burnt later. 

 The locality for a CypripecUum was most unusual, and the plant 

 should be sought again. 



III. APOSTASIACEAE. 



Erect herbs with a leafy stem bearing a terminal raceme or 

 panicle of moderate or small white or yellow flowers. Perianth 

 superior of three sepals and three petals lanceolate cuspidate. Sta- 

 mens three or one aborted. Anthers dorsifixed, two celled, pollen 

 powdery, filaments connate below for half their length. Style cylin- 

 dric. Stigma capitate obscurely 3 lobed. Ovary triquetrous 3 celled. 

 Fruit capsular, rarely baccate. Seeds minute with reticulated testa. 



Flowers moderately large. Perfect sta- 

 mens 3 . . . . . . . . . . 1. Neuwicdia. 



Flowers very small. Perfect stamens 2 2. Apostasia. 



1. Xeuwiedia, B1. 



Herl)s with erect or creeping stems. Leaves numerous plicate 

 lanceolate. Flowers racemose with long bi-acts, yellow or white. 

 Sepals and petals equal and similar lanceolate cuspidate. Stamens 

 3 fertile. Anthers linear oblong dorsifixed, filaments connate at the 

 base with the style, upper third only free. Style stout stigma 

 capitate. Fruit capsular or baccate. Seeds numerous minute. 



Species 6 Malayan to the Louisiades. 



Fruit capsular, flowers yellow . . , . 1. N. LindJeyi. 



Fruit capsular, flowers white . . . . 2. N. Griffithii. 



Fruit a red berry, flowers yellow . . . . 3. i\^. Curtisii. 



1. X. LiXDLEYi, Eolfe. Journ. Linn. Soc. XXY. 232. t. 48. f. 

 10-12. Stem 1-5 feet tall, erect leaves lanceolate acuminate many 

 nerved tapering below into a petiole, 18-21 inches long, 2 inches wide. 

 Upper part of stem covered with appressed narrow lanceolate bracts. 

 Eaceme 12-21 inches long dense. Flowers numerous shortly pedi- 

 celled bright yellow. Sepals ^ inch long lanceolate pubescent. Cap- 

 sule I inch long, with 3 broad obovate rcflexed valves. Hook. fil. 

 Fl. Brit. Ind. YI. 1T5. Bot. Mag. t. 7368. 



Singapore: Chua Chu Kang, Bukit Timah (Pvidley) ; Malacca: 

 Bukit Lintang (Derry 105) ; Sungei Ujong (Cantley) ; Penang 

 (Curtis 469). Distrib. Borneo. Native name "Jamba." 



2. N. Griffithii, Pehb. fil. Xen. Orch. II. 215. Ehizome long 

 creeping with long branched woolly roots. Leaves lanceolate petiolate 

 acuminate, 8 inches long If inch wide, petiole 2 inches long. Raceme 



