238 Scitaminecu. [Apos/asm.. 



Hills of S. India, Himalaya, Khasia. 



A verj' charming little ground-orchid, usually termed the ' Hyacinth 

 orchis' by the English. 



61. APOSTASZA, B/. 



Terrestrial, perennial, leafy herbs, with a short rootstock 

 and fibrous roots ; 1. narrow, strongly veined ; fl. small, in 

 terminal panicled spikes; sep. pet. and lip. all equal and 

 similar, free, spreading and recurved ; ov. very slender, 

 3-celled, ovules many, on axile placentas ; column short, 

 erect ; anth. 2, on the sides'of the column, opp. the pet , shortly 

 stipitate, versatile, cells 2, parallel, opening inwards; pollen 

 grains free, dry, ellipsoid ; style slender, stigma simple, terminal; 

 fr. narrow, linear, trigonous ; seeds minute, ellipsoid, testa 

 black, reticulate. — Sp. 6; 3 in FL B. hid. 



A. Wallichii, Bt-. in Wall. Cat 4448 (1828). 



Thw. Enum. 315. C. P. 2744. 



Fl. B. Ind. vi. 175. Wall. PI. As. Rar. t. 84. Ann. Bot. Card. Calcutt. 

 \iii. t. 444. 



Stem 1-2 ft., stout, leafly throughout; 1. 4-8 in., linear- 

 lanceolate, finely acuminate, spreading and recurved, coria- 

 ceous, strongly 5-7-veined, base, sheathing; panicle 4-10 in., 

 peduncled, decurved, ped. naked, spikes 2-3 in., bracts lanceo- 

 late, acuminate; fl. subsecund, about \ in. broad ; ov. ^-f in.; 

 Sep., pet., and lip linear-lanceolate, cuspidate, tips spreading; 

 anth. oblong, bases of the cells unequal ; staminode adnate to 

 the style; fr. |-f in., hispidulous. 



In forests, moist low country below 2000 ft.; rare. Palabadala; near 

 Hewesse; Dolosbagie. Fl. Nov.-Dec; yellow. 



Nepal, Assam, Malay Pen., Java, Sumatra, N. Guinea. 



CXXVII.— SCITAMINEyE. 



Herbs, usually perennial; stem o, or of convolute l.-sheaths; 

 1. usually large, simple, pennivcined, sheaths long; infl. ter- 

 minal, or on a leafless ped. from the rootstock, solitary, 

 spicate, racemose or panicled, often of capitate or cone-like 

 spikes ; cal. superior, produced above the ovary into 3 sepals, 

 or into a long or short tube; cor. usually tubular, with a 

 spreading 3-partite limb (a single short, membranous pet. in 

 Musd)\ stam : — in Zingiberecc one perfect, with a 2-celled 



