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flaments glabrous; fruit globose, 10—15 mm. in diam., of a dark sage-green colour 
turning to blue. 
Western HiMALAYA: from Chamba to Kumaon at elevations between 2,000 and 
8,000 feet; ?SIKKM and Kuasta: J. D. Hooker, &c. (without flowers or fruit). 
This handsome evergreen tree is very abundant in "Tehri-Garhwál and Jaunsár, 
often forming nearly pure forest on the northern slopes of the hills, and in shady 
valleys at elevations between 6,000 and 8,000 feet. The flowers open in May; and 
the fruit, which remains for a long time on the tree, ripens in August and September. 
This tree is termed ‘‘Bhadrao” in Garhwál, whilst М. odoratissima is known by the 
name of “Kaul.” The latter, which is a rarer tree than М. Duthiet and without its 
gregarious habit, is easily distinguished by its smaller leaves and flowers, by its 
slender green peduncles and pedicels, and by the oval-shaped berries. 
Рглте 83.—Machilus Duthiei King. Portions of a flowering branch and of a fruiting branch, — 
of natural size. 1, single flower; 2, two perfect stamens and а staminode,—6bo/À enlarged. 
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PLATE 84, 
91. Aposrasta Wattican R, Br, in Wall, РІ, As. Rar, i. 75, t. 84 (1830). 
Natural order Apostasieze. 
A terrestrial, erect, glabrous herb 2 to 6 dm. high, with a short rhizome; the 
stem cylindric, unbranched, about as thick as a goose-quill, often sending out near its 
base a few wire-like aerial roots, enveloped in its lower part by blunt sheaths 
of unequal length and in its upper part by the sheaths of the leaves; leaves 8 to 10, 
scattered, membranous, spreading and decurved, linear-lanceolate, acuminate, slightly 
dilated at the sheathing base, 5- to 7-nerved, entire, 12 to 20 ст. long and 1 to 15 
cm. broad; racemes several, often branched, from the axils of the upper leaves, 
spreading, deflexed, 5- to 10-flowered, subsecund, half as long as the leaves; the peduncle 
short, naked; flowers about 2 сш, long (including the ovary), erect, each with a 
minute, keeled, lanceolate bract at its base; perianth uniformly yellow, fragrant, 
regular, about 5 to 6 mm. long, its 6 segments uniform, spreading, narrowly 
lanceolate, sub-acute, their apices deflexed; perfect anthers two, slightly longer than 
the style, closely adpressed together, erect, oblong, sub-acute, 2-celled; each attached 
by a short subulate filament to the sigmoid fleshy receptacle: their cells unequal at 
the base and slightly cordate, dehiscing introrsely and longitudinally; pollen-grains 
free, ellipsoidal; staminode solitary, elongate, semi-cylindric, slightly thickened towards 
the base, tapering somewhat to the sub-acute apex, originating from the same 
receptacle as the perfect stamens, but cohering to the style for nearly its whole 
length, free only near its apex; style somewhat shorter than the perianth segments, 
eylindric, erect, slightly larger than the staminode; stigma discoid, truncate-crenate, 
obscurely 3-lobed; ovary inferior, on a short pedicel, narrowly cylindric, obscurely 
3-angled, 3-celled, the three placentas axile, continuous throughout its whole length, 
multiovulate; capsule 2 to 25 cm. long, slender, sub-cylindric and slightly tapered 
upwards, obscurely 3-ridged, smooth, shining, brown, crowned by the withered perianth ; 
seeds very numerous, minute, ellipsoid to obovoid, with a minute white process at one 
