Gastrodía.) OXLVIII. ORCHIDE®. (J. D. Hooker.) 123 
3. G. javanica, Endl. Gen. Plant. 212; lip free from the tube of the 
Perianth, blade broadly hastately cordate with „two thickened ridges 
on the disk. Lindl. Gen. & Sp. Orchid. 384; Thwaites Enum. 311; Blume, 
Orchid. Archip. Ind. 145; Mus. Bot. ii. 175. Epiphanes javanica, Blume 
Bijdr. 421, t. A 
CEYLON ; near Ratnapoora, &c., Thwaites. 2. . 
I have seen no specimen of the Ceylon plant, only the copy of a drawing in the 
Peradeniya Garden, kindly made for me by Thwaites, but it gives no analysis. This 
"presents a slender plant with few flowers, an almost globose perianth divided to 
about the middle, and not representing a specimen of what may be the Javan 
Plant in Herb. Kew collected by Lobb. 
4. G. ?Hasseltii, Blume Mus. Bot. ii. 175; Orchid. Archip. Ind. 
145, t. 52, f. 5-8; stem 6 in. rather slender, flowers few broadly campanu- 
te in. long, lip quite free, claw slender, limb suborbicular with a broad 
truncate tip, 
PERAK, Ie, Scortechini.—D1sTRIB. Java. 
. Without specimen either of Blume's or Scortechini's plants identification is 
impossible, 
5. G. exilis, Hook. f. Ic. Plant. ined.; very slender, flowers minute, 
lip free sessile by a very small point ovate with 2 long wing-like lamellze 
on the middle of the disk. 
Kuasa Mrs, ; at Amwee in grassy places, alt. 8000 ft., J. D. H. § T. T. 
Tuber i4 in., oblong ; stem 6-12 da filiform. Racemes few and lax-fld. ; bracts 
ovate ; flowers (with ovary) 4-} in. long, erect, whitish; perianth cylindric, very 
shortly 5-lobed ; Sepaline lobes broad, obtuse; petaline much smaller, rounded, 
riate (or glzndular) ; lip as long as the column, membranous, faintly 5-nerved, 
Tounded; column acutely toothed at the truncate top. Capsule (unripe) 
m, fusiform,—A very singular species ; difficult of analysis after having been dried. 
100/1. YOANIA, Mazim. 
À low stout leafless h i llate sheaths. Flowers race- 
erb; stem with cucullate she 
TE and stoutly pedicelled. Sepals oblong, obtuse, fleshy. Pets 
roadly ovate, Lip sessile at the foot of the column, very shortly 4 awe d 
jyabitorm, obtusely apiculate. Column short, broad, margine , m - 
d side lobes erect ; stigma concave, transverse ; ant er etl 
gland. ' celled; pollinia 4, pulpy, sectile, attached in pairs to 
hé Japonica, Mazim. in Bull. Acad. St. Petersb. xviii. 68; Mel. 
LU 647; Benth. in Hook, Ic. Pl. t. 1364. 4 
pop UNNTPORE ; crest of Bareil range (S. W. of Japoo), alt. about 7000 ft., and on 
ma, Prain.—Disrrin, Japan. 3-6 in., tortuous 
e “White, glabrous. Rootstock stout, branched. Stem 3- ill; sheaths 
tin vnnipore plant, erect in the Japanese, as thick as a RT, dicel with 
. Y rounded ; raceme short, 4—6 fld. ; bracts like the sheaths He lip very 
dée? Sepals 2 in. long, and oblique obtuse petals many-net ; ` 
wie? clawed, almost hemispheric, with T thickened apex and axis, e 2-31 in 
long puthin the lip and four strong flexuous nerves on each side. Capsu e mE 
the » Stoutly pedicelled, erect, narrowly fusiform, ribs very stout. Bree abruptly 
S are sometimes curved, and the margins of the lip appear to be 
