Aphyllorchis.'] Ovckidece. 223 



55. G-AZ<EOLA, Lour. 

 Leafless, fleshy, erect, yellow or brown saprophytes, with 

 scale-like 1. ; fl. in loose terminal panicles or racemes, rather 

 large; sep. subequal, concave, connivent, at length spreading; 

 pet. like the sep., but smaller; lip sessile, and adnate to the 

 base of the column, which it embraces by its base, shorter than 

 the Sep., broad, concave, entire or 3-lobed, fleshy, spur o, disk 

 bearded; column short, incurved, dilated above with mem- 

 branous wings; anth. terminal, conical, 2-celled, opercular, 

 deciduous, cells 2-locellate, pollinia 2, oblong, powdery, grains 

 ellipsoid, without caudicle or gland; fr. a fleshy indehiscent 

 berry. — Sp. 8 or 9 ; y \n Fl. B. Ind. 



G-. javanica, Benth. in Gen. PI. iii. (590). 

 Cyrtosia javanica., Bl., Thw. Enum. 311. C. P. 3203. 

 Fl. B. Ind. vi. 88, 197. Bl, Rumph, i. t. 69 {Cyrtosia). 



Roots of clavate or cylindric fascicled, fleshy fibres, 1-2 in. 

 long ; stems many from the root, 4-6 in. high, simple or 

 sparingly branched, glabrous and shining below, papillose 

 above, dull red purple in age; scales alternate, ovate, the 

 colour of the stem; fl. loosely spicate, about \ in. diam., 

 nodding, rose-cold, turning yellow-brown; sep. and pet. 

 erecto-connivent, subsimilar, oblong, acute, membranous, 

 deciduous, sep. rather the longest; lip shorter, broader, and 

 much thicker than the sep., semi-rotund, concave, sulphur- 

 cold, disk thickened, bearded and ribbed; base of column 

 thickened, gibbous above, dilated, fornicate, with 2 short, 

 lateral, rounded, erose wings, rostellum short; berry about 

 2 in. long, sausage-shaped, terete, pendulous. 



Moist region 2-3000 ft. ; very rare. Pasbage (Gardner) ; Pundaluoya, 

 at the roots of coffee-trees (Nietnez); Ramboda (Thwaites). Fl. pale- 

 green, the column yellow. 



Also in Java and Assam. 



In a note Dr. Trimen says : ' I have never met with this very singular 

 plant.' The only specimen in Herb. Peraden. is quite unfit for examina- 

 tion, being shrivelled up. There is a drawing of it in the collection, 

 representing a young specimen with imbricating scales, and the flowers 

 in a head, the sep. and pet. green, column and lip golden-yellow. The 

 description given above is from Blume. — J. D. H. 



56. APKVI.X1ORCKZS, Bl. 



Pale, leafless saprophytes, with fleshy rootstocks or 

 roots; stem simple, stout, or slender, with membranous 

 sheaths; fl. in terminal racemes; sep. 3, subequal, connivent 

 or spreading ; pet narrower; lip as long as the sep., inserted 



