( 4010 ) 



Gastrochilus longiflora. Long-flow- 

 ered Gastrochilus. 



Class and Order. 



MONANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 



( Nat. Ord. — SciTAMiNEiE. ) 



Generic Character. 



Calyx tubulosus, hinc fissus. Corolla tubus elongatus, 

 filiformis, limbi laciniae exteriores aequales patentes, interi- 

 ors laterales latiores, basi cum filamento in tubo connatas; 

 labellum maximum, saccatum. Filamentum lineare, ultra 

 antherae muticaB loculos connectivo longiores haud produc- 

 tum. Ovarium inferum, triloculare. Ovula in loculorum 

 angulo centrali plurima, horizontalia, anatropa. Stylus 

 filiformis; stigma capitato-convexum. Capsula — . — Herba? 

 Indices, acaules, vel caulescentes ; radice repente vel Jibroso- 

 ramosa, tuberibus subsessilibus fasciculatis ; spica radicali v . 

 terminali imbricata, floribus nutantibus. Endl. 



Specific Character and Synonym. 



Gastrochilus longiflora; foliis.oblongo-cordatis longe peti- 

 olatis, spicis radicalibus, tubo corollae longissimo ex- 

 serto. 



Gastrochilus longiflora. Wall. PL Asiat. Rar. v. I. p. 

 22. tab. 25. 



An equally rare, though less showy, species, with that 

 figured at our Tab. 3930, requiring the same treatment, and 

 flowering about the same time, July and August. It is 

 likewise a native of Rangoon; and also of Martaban in the 

 East Indies, and is one of the many treasures for the pos- 

 session of which the Royal Botanic Gardens of Kew are 

 indebted to Dr Wallich. This gentleman, in his descrip- 

 tion 



