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