﻿Plate 1852. 



GASTRODIA OROBANCHOIDES, 



Orchideje. Tribe Neottie*:. 



-_, Benth.in Gen. Plant, in. 61/. " amu ^"" 

 sesamoides, Falconer mss. i„ Ro>/ls 111 M-l; in LinJL Gen. et op. 

 Orchid. 384; in Trans. Linn. Soc. xx. 293, t. 13. 



Hab. Western Himalaya, from Garwhal to Kashmir, in forests, alt. 

 about 7,000 ft. Falconer, Thomson, Aitchison. 



Bentham, in the ■ Genera Plantarum,' has reduced the get 

 P^zis of Falconer, together with Bpiphm** of Blume, o 

 Brown. Comparing the extreme forms which the aggrega te&emis thna 

 constituted contains, namely, the G. sesamoids of, Australia wrtn 

 <*• orobanchoides of the Western Himalaya, the generic union ^or 

 ^ould seem to be questi ^,J ~ n Ka £ V 



observation following the generic description: / eria r n "V, elatat 

 sesamoide antice breviter in specie Falooneriaua (qn© vix a • 



eluding remark, Dr. King has been so good as to sena d ^ lineate d 

 °t G. orobanchoides in spirits. A comparison ot tnes< ? , he L { nn ean 

 °? Plate 1852, with the figure given of ^°^ much on his native 

 transactions, shows that Falconer has depended toonr u sub . eqa al 



artist, who has represented the sepals, petals, and lip . » ^^ 



and similar, forming a regular corolla of three outer ^a » ^^ 

 ^allerinnerhorizoftallyspreading lobes *£»*£$ ag War 

 falconer carefully defines the limbo the pen a ^ 



('antrorsnm subsecunda'), with the lip larger tnan fi ^ re .__J. D 

 fried lower down in the tube, exactly as shown in ou » 





All enlarged. 



