122 CXLVIII. oROHIDEZ, (J.D. Hooker) ` [D/dymeplezis. 
D. pallens, Grif. in Calcutt. Journ. Nat. Hist. iv. 389, t. 17; 
Hemsl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. xx. 911, t. 28; Kurz in Seem. Journ. Bot. 1866, 
40 (excl. Syn. Epiblema & Gastrodia). Leucorchis sylvatica, Blume Mus. 
Bot. i. 31; Orchid. Archip. Ind. 147, with woodcut. Apetelon minutum, 
Wight Ic. t. 1758. Arethusa ecristata, Griff. Notul. iu. 378; Ic. Plant. 
Asiat. t. 349, 344, A. bengalensis, Hort. Bot. Cale. Epiphanes pallens, 
Reich. f. in Seem. Fl. Vit. 296. 
Lower BENGAL; from the foot of the Sikkim Himalaya to Calcutta. KURG; 
in bamboo jungles, Jerdon. PERAK, Scortechini, Wray. . 
Root branching and tuberous; stem 4-6 in., sheaths loose. Racemes terminal, 
4-8 fid. ; bracts broadly ovate; flowers shortly pedicelled, dull yellow-white, perianth 
} in. diam. subcampanulate ; dorsal sepal ovate, obtuse, hooded ; petals shorter an 
broader than the dorsal sepal, truncate, 3-nerved ; lateral sepals united to the middle, 
free portions obtuse ; lip stipitate, transversely or obcuneately oblong, membranous, 
with 3-median nerves between which the disk is papillose. Capsule 1-14 iv., erect, 
fusiform, pedicel 3-8 in.—Ridley l.c. distinguishes his D. pallens from Blumes 
sylvatica by the entire lower lip of the latter, overlooking Blume's woodcut of the 
sylvatica, which represents it as 2-lobed. 
100. GASTRODIA, Zr. 
Terrestrial leafless brownish tuberous herbs; stem erect, sheathed. 
Flowers in lax racemes. Sepals connate with the petals into a ventricose 
5-lobed tube slit anteriorly. Lip short, base adnate to the foot of the 
column and to the perianth, blade entire. Column usually long, narrowly 
2-winged, foot short or 0; rostellum small; stigma prominent; anther 
tumid; pollinia ecaudate, free.— Species 7, Asiatic, Malayan 4? 
Australasian. 
1. G. orobanchoides, Benth. in Gen. Plant. iii, 617 ;' lip adnate to 
the tube of the perianth with a short sessile ovate obtuse free plane bla " 
Hook. f. Ic. Plant. t. 1852. Gamoplexis Fale. in Royle Ill. 364; Lindl. 
Gen. & SP Orchid. 384; G. orobanchoides, Fale. in Trans. Linn. Soc. 35 
TEMPERATE HIMALAYA, alt. 7-8000 ft., from Kashmir to Garwhal, Falconer, 
Root a large oblong or ellipsoid annulate tuber, parasitic by a small fibrous base 
to roots. Stem 10-24 in., usually very stout; sheaths short, loose, truncate. Racemé 
loosely many-fld.; bracts oblong, acute, variable in size; flowers suberect, pedicels 
short; ovary turgid ; perianth 3-2 in. long, ventricose, base gibbous, lobes very short 
obtuse, sepaline rather longer than the petaline; lip longer still, sessile, ovate; 
obtuse, recurved. Capsule $ in., erect, turgid. 
2, G. elata, Blume Mus. Bot. ii. 174; Orchid. Archip. Ind. 149 
t. 53; claw of lip adnate to the perianth and furnished with a pair of large 
fleshy prominent calli, limb free ovate-oblong. 
J Cuumst ; a Tibetan province east of Sikkim, King’s Collector, —DISTRIB. Obina, 
apan. . 
Habit, inflorescence and flowers of G. orobanchoides, but differing in the lips 
the adnate claw of which has an almost reniform callus on each side, whereas in the 
first-named species the position of the claw on the perianth is marked by two 
thickened lines. The Chumbi specimen is a bad one, but having examined gon! 
flowers of it and of the Japan plant, I have no reason to doubt their identity. 
