268 TEANSACTIONS OF THE [Sess. Lxxxn 



not rugose inside, intracalj^cine membrane truncate ; lobes 

 5 subequal about 5 mm. long or a little longer by about 

 1*5 mm. broad oblong acute, shortly apiculate not contracted 

 at base, intersepaline sinus under 0*5 mm. broad seldom 

 more, margin scaberulous. Corolla 3"5-4 cm. long clavate ; 

 tube within calyx very narrow about 1'5 mm. in diameter 

 ampliate upwards and 5-lobed, purple striate outside on a 

 yellowish ground having 5 bands one along middle of each 

 petal, bands marked by 3 purple equidistant lines and a 

 few spots ; lobes and folds blue erect hardly spreading ; 

 lobes broadly triangular or ovate about 3 mm. long and 

 3 mm. broad at base sliglitly apiculate, folds about 2 mm. 

 broad showing a central tooth about 0'25 mm. high and 

 slight erosion at its sides. Stamens free from about 18 mm. 

 above base of corolla, free filament purple narrowly winged 

 about 8 mm. long ; anther 1 '5 mm. long sagittate. Gy naeceum 

 about 3 cm. long ; ovary fusiform not 1 cm. long stipitate ; 

 stipe about 2 cm. long; style about 2 mm. long stigmati- 

 ferous through about half its length and there recurved. 

 Capsule about 1'5 cm. long oblong, but slightly tapered to 

 the ends, far exserted from corolla on a stipe as much as 

 5 cm. long. Seeds ovoid about 1 mm. long by 0*5 mm. 

 broad with straw-coloured alveolar testa. 



Bhutan. Parsheng, Timpu. Alt. 14,000 ft. Cooper. 

 No. 3409. 27th October 1914. 



Sikkim. Kapup. Cave. 31st October 1916. 



6r. ^ro/ato flowered at Edinburgli in 1917. The plants 

 were raised from seeds taken from Cooper's Bhutan 

 specimens. This was not the first flowering at Edinburgh. 

 In the nineties of last century plants wore raised and 

 flowered from Calcutta seed wliich came with the name 

 G. ornata. 



The habit of the plant is very diflerent from that of 

 (r. ornata, Wall., as that appears in the type-specimens. A 

 plant of G. prolata in flow(!r shows a central tuft of several 

 erect branches 5 or 6 cm. long, with short more or less 

 elliptic bright green leaves springing from a conmion many- 

 headed rhizomatous axis from which descend the much- 

 branched roots which are somewhat thick at their point 

 of origin. The base of each of these shoots begins with 

 some scale-leaves. Spreading out from these and arising 



