Musa.] 
CXLI. MUSACEjE. 
295 
violet or white tinted violet, 9 in. wide, persistent and pendent on 
pubescent rachis after fall of flower. Male flowers 6 in a row, 
1 in. long, white. Calyx oblong, 2 outer teeth longest. Corolla 
•75 in. long. Females 6 in a row. Fruit green, 3 in. long, 1 in. 
through, angled. Seeds -25 in. long, cylindric, truncate not angled. 
Hab. Common, growing with M. malaccensis in great plenty. 
Pahang, Tahan woods; Kwala Lipis (Machado). Negri Sembilan, 
Linsum. Selangor, Kwala Lumpur; Ginting Sempah. Perak, 
Thaiping Hills; Sungei Siput (Burkill). Temengoh; Batang 
Padang Valley (Ridley). 
M. sp. A dwarf plant. Leaves lanceolate acuminate blunt 
mucronulate, 2 ft. long, 5 to 6 in. wide; petioles rather slender. 
Fruits cylindric solitary short pedicelled, 3 in. long, erect, few, 
about 6, white with longitudinal violet bands, slightly angled. Seeds 
oblong; peduncle 8 in. long. Hab. Johor, Gunong Pulai; Tempayan 
River (Ridley). 
I have twice seen this curious species, but only in fruit. 
Order CXLII. APOSTASIACE^. 
Erect herbs with leafy stems bearing a terminal raceme or 
panicle of medium or small flowers white or yellow. Perianth 
superior of 3 sepals and 3 petals, lanceolate cuspidate. Stamens 3, 
or one aborted. Anthers dorsifixed; filaments connate below. 
Style cylindric. Stigma capitate. Ovary triquetrous, 3-celled. 
Fruit capsular, rarely baccate. Seeds minute. Species about 10, 
Malayan. 
Flowers moderately large; stamens 3 . . .1. Neuwiedia 
Flowers small; perfect stamens 2 . . . .2. Apostasia 
1 . NEUWIEDIA, Bl. 
Herbs with erect or creeping stems. Leaves numerous plicate, 
lanceolate. Flowers racemose. Bracts long. Sepals and petals 
equal and similar. Stamens 3 fertile. Anthers linear-oblong, 
filaments connate for two-thirds of their length. Style stout. 
Fruit capsular or baccate. Species 6, Malayan isles to Louisiades. 
Fruit capsular. 
Flowers yellow . . . . . . . (1) N. Lindleyi 
Flowers white . . . . . . (2) N. Griffithii 
Flowers buff; petals caudiculate hairy . . . (3) N. ocrea 
Fruit baccate; flowers yellow . . . . (4) N. Curtisii 
(1) N. Lindleyi Rolfe, Journ. Linn. Soc. xxv. 232, t. 48, figs. 
10 to 12; Hook, fit, F.B.I. vi. 175; Bot. Mag. t. 7368. (Fig. 187, 
p. 296.) 
Stem 2 to 4 ft. tall, erect. Leaves lanceolate acuminate taper¬ 
ing to a petiole, 18 to 24 in. long, 2 in. wide. Raceme 1 to 2 ft. 
