BOTANICAL INFORMATION. 73 



Botanical information communicated by Dr Falconer, Direc- 

 tor of the Botanic Garden, Saharunpoor, to Dr Lindley. 



I have just received your volume oi Arethusecs. My Gamo- 

 plexis, wliich you notice, is very different from Gasirodia : tlie 

 perianth is tubular, with a 6-lobed limb; the labellum com- 

 posing a portion of the tube and not free; and the labellar 

 lobe of the limb differs only by being a little larger than the 

 other lobes, besides other distinctive marks. I purpose send- 

 ing Royle a drawing and description with specimens, by 

 next mail. Should you have any supplementary number, I 

 could furnish several new genera and species. One of the 

 genera is a magnificent plant allied to Blume's Cyrtosia^ 

 which I have named Pogochilus, with pulpy pollen-masses 

 which are doubled together, '* terete-conduplicate," in horse- 

 shoe fashion, with an articulated deciduous perianth, and 

 aphyllous ; with subterraneous squamate stems, and a leathery 

 strictly 3-valved capsule, without costae or any interruption 

 of tissue. I cannot bring my mind yet to rank it in any 

 way under the Arethusece. You will, I presume, soon be 

 through the Neottice, among which 1 see you range Zeuxine. 

 Should you have good specimens I recommend this plant to 

 your particular notice. I have examined it minutely, and 

 find the pollen anything but powdery ; it is waxy, exactly as 

 in the Ophrydece, " composed of fiat pyriform angular mas- 

 sules attached to a central elastic thread, and imbricated 

 over each other as in the Ophrydece ; when the elastic axis is 

 extended, the massules (organs) can be seen adhering sepa- 

 rately, as in Bauer's drawing, (Lindl. Illnst. Orchis Mars, 

 W'x.Jig, 7.)" Such are my notes. The position of the stig- 

 matic surfaces is also peculiar. Perhaps you may not have 

 fresh specimens to examine, and my description may not be 

 unacceptable. Here it is ; 



"Zeuxine. Lindl. Pterogodii spec. i2oa;6." 



Perianthium ovario incumbens fornicato-connivens. Sepala 

 lateralia libera, supremo basi saccato grandiore. Petala 

 subaequalia cum sepalo supremo in galeam adglutinata, 



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