GastrodiaJ] OXLVIII, ORCHIDE^. (J. D. Hooker.) 123 



3. G. javanlca, Endl. Gen. Plant. 212; lip free from the tube of the 

 perianth, blade broadly hastately cordate with two thickened ridges 

 on the disk. Lindl. Gen. & Sp. Orchid. 384; Thwaites Enum. 311 ; Blume, 

 Orchid. Archip. 'Ind. 145 ; Mus. Bot. ii. 175. Epiphanes javanica, Blume 

 Bijdr. 421, t. 4. 



CEYLON ; near Ratnapoora, &c., tfhwaites. 



I have seen no specimen of the Ceylon plant, only the copy of a drawing in the 

 Peradeniya Garden, kindly made for me by Thwaites, but it gives no analysis. This 

 represents a slender plant with few flowers, an almost globose perianth divided to 

 about the middle, and not representing a specimen of what may be the Javan 

 plant in Herb. Kew collected by Lobb. 



4. Gr. 1 Hasseltii, Blume Mus. Bot. ii. 175 ; Orchid. Archip. Ind. 

 145, t. 52, f. 5-8 ; stem 6 in. rather slender, flowers few broadly campanu- 

 late % in. long, lip quite free, claw slender, limb suborbicular with a broad 

 truncate tip. 



PERAK, Ic. Soortechini. DISTRIB. Java. 



Without specimen either of Blume's or Scortechinr's plants identification is 

 impossible. 



5. Gr. exilis, Hook.f. Ic. Plant. ined.\ very slender, flowers minute, 

 lip free sessile by a very small point ovate with 2 long wing-like lamellae 

 on the middle of the disk. 



KHASIA Mis. ; at Anawee in grassy places, alt. 3000 ft., J. D. H. $ T. T. 



Tuber -jp-f in., oblong; stem 6-12 in., filiform. It ace mes few and lax-fid. ; bracts 

 ovate ; flowers (with ovary) gJ in. long, erect, whitish ; perianth cylindric, very 

 shortly 5-lobed ; sepaline lobes broad, obtuse ; petaline much smaller, rounded, 

 fimbriate (or glandular) ; lip as long as the column, membranous, faintly 5-nerved, 

 base rounded ; column acutely toothed at the truncate top. Capsule (unripe) 

 in. fusiform. A very singular species ; difficult of analysis after having been dried. 



100/1. YOANXA, Maxim. 



A low stout leafless herb ; stem with cucullate sheaths. Flowers race- 

 mose, long and stoutly pedicelled. Sepals oblong, obtuse, fleshy. Petals 

 broadly ovate. Lip sessile at the foot of the column, very shortly clawed, 

 cymbiform, obtusely apiculate. Column short, broad, margined, mid- 

 lobe triangular, side lobes erect ; stigma concave, transverse ; anther long- 

 beaked, 2-celled ; pollinia 4, pulpy, sectile, attached in pairs to a viscid 

 gland. 



V. japonica, Maxim, in Bull. Acad. St. Petersb. xviii. 68; Mel. 

 Biol. viii. 647 ; Benth. in Hook. Ic. PL t. 1364. 



MUNNIPOEE ; crest of Bareil range (S. W. of Japoo), alt. about 7000 ft., and on 

 Kohima, Prain. DISTRIB. Japan. 



Brownish-white, glabrous. Root&toclc stout, branched. Stem 3-6 in., tortuous 

 in the Munnipore plant, erect in the Japanese, as thick as a goose-quill ; sheaths 

 i in., shortly rounded ; raceme short, 4-6 fid. ; bracts like the sheaths ; pedicel with 

 ovary 1-lf in. ; sepals f in. long, and oblique obtuse petals many-nerved ; lip very 

 shortly clawed, almost hemispheric, with a thickened apex and axis, a small con- 

 cavity within the lip and four strong flexuous nerves on each side. Capsule 2-2% in. 

 lon^, stoutly pedicelled, erect, narrowly fusiform, ribs very stout. Except in that 

 the stems are sometimes curved, and the margins of the lip appear to be abruptly 



