Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 207 



Singapore: Biikit Timah, Bajau (Ridley); Jolior: Pengaram, 

 Bukit Tenabang (Kelsall) ; Pahang: Sungei Tahan (Ridley); 

 Malacca: Lower dopes of Mount Ophir (Ridley), Bukit Sadanen 

 (Derry 342); Negri Sembilan: Gunong Angsi (Ridley); Kcdah : 

 Gunong Jerai (Ridley 3126); Pahang: Government Hill (Ridley). 

 Distrib. Borneo, Siani. Not rare in dry woods, very inconspicuous. 



70. Gastrodia, Br. 



Leafless saprophytes with a cylindric rhizome and a solitary 

 succulent brownish stem. Flowers in lax racemes. Sepals and petals 

 connate into a tube more or less split. Lip short adnate to the foot 

 of the column and perianth, entire or obscurely 3 lobed. Column 

 usually long 3 winged foot short or arms short erect. Rostellum 

 small. Anther hemispheric. Pollinia in two granular masses. 



Species 8. India, Malaya, Japan, China, Australia. 



Stem tall, perianth cleft nearly to base . . 1. G. Malayana. 

 Stem short, perianth campanulate . . . . 2. G. Hasselti. 



1. G. Malayana, Ridl. Rhizome cylindric 6 inches long ringed, 

 I inch through. Stem stout 9 inches tall purplish brown, ringed at 

 the base, with short sheaths with ovate blades. Raceme few flowered. 

 Flowers shortly pedicelled, ovary short conical. Bracts ovate J inch 

 long. Upper sepal lanceolate lorate blunt, laterals prolonged into a 

 short mentum, apices pustular purple brown, mentum green. Petals 

 lorate obtuse free to near the base, green and purplish. Lip base 

 narrow linear, margins rolled in, plicate, cuneate subtrilobed, side 

 lobes broad blunt, midlobe narrow straight blunt orange yellow, with 

 a raised central bar. Column semiterete broadly grooved, foot long. 

 Anther conical broad. Pollinia mealy. Rostellum flat broad entire. 

 Capsule 1 inch long elliptic, pedicel I inch. 



Singapore: Bukit Timah, Pulau Damar, Seletar (Ridley); 

 Johor: Sungei Tehran (Ridley). Grows on rotten wood. Rare and 

 difficult to And, often growing in rotten wood, in dense forests. This 

 plant I took for G. javanica, Bl. but it differs in the form of the 

 perianth of which the parts are nearly free to the base, and the lip is 

 more blunt and broader 



2. G. Hasseltii, Bl. Mus. Bot. II. 175. Orch. Arch. Ind. 145. t. 

 52. f. 5-8. A small plant 6 inches tall. Bracts ovate lanceolate. 

 Flowers 3-4 broadly campanulate | incli long. Sepals and petals 

 all adnate. Lip free, claw narrow, limb suborbicular with apex 

 truncate. Hook. fil. Fl. Brit. Ind. VL 123. 



Perak (Drawing by Scortechini). This is only known as a native 

 of the Peninsula from Scortechini's sketch which certainly resembles 

 flume's figure. 



