Gastrochilus,] ` ous, SCITAMINEE. (J. G. Baker.) 217 
7. GASTROCHILUS, Wail. 
Perennial, rarely annual; rootstock 0 or creeping; root-fibres cylindric 
or slender, Leafy stem absent or present. Leaves oblong, acute. Flowers 
solitary or Spicate, often secund. Calyx short, spathaceous. Corolla-tube 
slender ; segments equal, connivent, linear-oblong, ascending; lateral 
staminodes petaloid, broader than the corolla lobes, oblanceolate-oblong; 
filament very short; anther-cells parallel, connective neither crested nor 
"Pured; lip oblong, longer than the corolla-segments, entire. Ovary 
oblong, 3-celled; ovules few, or many, superposed; style filiform; stigma 
subglobose. Capsule oblong. Seeds ovoid, aril small basal.—India and 
one other species from China. 
l G.longiflora, Wall, Plant. Asiat. Rar. i. 22, t.25; Cat. 6589; 
Perennial, stemless, leaves large long-petioled often cordate, flowers 1-2 
i radical spikes, corolla-tube much longer than the bracts, staminodes 
Wes rather longer than the white corolla-segments. Hook. in Bot. Mag. 
y, MIO ; Horan. Prodr. 99. Alpinia Hamiltoniana, Wall, Cat. 6579. 
anglium sulphureum, Ham. mss. 
SIEEIX HIMALiYA, KHAsia HILLS, Assam, and from Peer and UPPER BURMA 
Root-fibres tufted, cylindric. Leaves about 4 in a tuft; petiole long, erect, 
benatlled ; blade 3-l ft. or more, base cordate or cuneate, often tinged purple 
neath, Scape radical; bracts about 2 in., many, imbricate, scarious, oblong- 
D Calyz much shorter than the bract. Corolla-tube 2-3 in., very slender ; 
a Zeite 3-1 in, Stamen rather shorter than the corolla-segments; lip half as long 
gau as the corolla-segments, oblong-cuneate, sometimes 1 in. broad, more or less 
KÉ With red and crisped on the incurved margins.—Perhaps more than one species 
than Nded. The Bot, Mag. plant is G. Jenkinsii, Wall. mss, and has larger flowers 
wie figured by Wallich, of a purer white, the lip tipped with bright red. ; 
th M " Kurz mss. has still larger flowers of a dull sulphur yellow, with the sides o 
* lip clouded with purple. 
H 
D G. minor, King mss.; perennial, stemless, leaves oblanceolate- 
y ng long-petioled, corolla-tube not longer than the bract, staminodes 
P scarcely longer than the corolla-segments. 
Spike; bracts 2 ; 1 Corolla-tube slender to the 
aper. n., lanceolate, membranous. . 
es E l in., oblong, whitish ; lip oblong, marked with red and yellow, with 
ncurved margins. 
3. G D H € . . 1 
l *Pulcherrima, Wall. Pl. Asiat. Rar. i. 22, t. 24; perennial, 
a em usually produced, leaves sessile or shortly petioled, flowers many 
b simal Spikes with imbricate bracts, corolla-tube not longer than the 
Beet pominodes white not longer than the white corolla-segments. 
: "Lag. Bot. vii. 75, with fig.; Bot. Mag. t. 3930; Horan. Prodr. 22. 
Pr . "i 
Moi? Wallich ; Tavoy, Gomez; TENASSERIM, Helfer, Lobb, Parish; PENANG, 
reeping; root-fibres thick, fleshy. Stem 6-12 in., rarely 0. Leaves 
4 Ge oblong, caudate. Spike sessile, 2-3 in. bracts oblong-lanceolate, green, about 
Sie ida Spathaceous, rather shorter than the bract. Corolla-segments linear- 
White t in, Stamen shorter than the corolla-segments ; lip 1 in., obovate-cuneate, 
with pink, 
