GASTRODIA. ME. 259 
an acute auricle on each side of the anther, otherwise wingless; its anterior surface bearing 
about the middle a short transverse horizontal sub-truncate emarginate plate and, at its 
base just above the insertion of the lip, a sub-erect, rigid, transversely and unequally 
2-lobed fleshy tongue-like process half as long as itself. Аа ее opening vertically ? 
pollinia four, in two pairs, confluent by their bases with the narrow sa ah is 
rostellum, without either caudicle or gland. A single species, Indian. 
PANTLINGIA PARADOXA, Prain in Journ. As. Soc. Beng., Vol LXV, pt. 2, 107. | 
Rhizome short, about half as thick as a goose-quill, pubescent. Stems 1 or 2, from 3 to 
4 in. long, pubescent near the base, otherwise glabrous, bearing about the middle a single 
ovate acute bract ‘25 in. long. Flowers 2 or 3, racemose, "15 in., or (with the ovaries) 
4-6 in. long; floral bract ovate, acute, about as long as the slender pedicel. Lateral 
sepals linear, lying under and adpressed to the lip; the dorsal longer than the lateral, 
linear-oblong, slightly shorter than and adpressed to the column. Petals linear, reflexed 
or spreading. Lip with the margins somewhat incurved. Anther with a vertical suture; 
pollinia in two pairs, confluent by their bases with the narrow strap-shaped rostellum. 
Sikkim Himalaya, at Choongtong ; elevation 6,000 feet; in flower during September; 
Pantling No. 420. 
The pollen masses are attached by their bases to the strap-shaped rostellum, which 
is not detachable from the top of the stigma. They appear to fertilize the latter by 
the gradual absorption and disappearance of the rostellum. The nearest alliance of the 
genus is with Limodorum, some of the species of which have small processes on the column 
in the situation of those that are so highly developed in this singular plant; the lip in 
Limodorum is, however, altogether different. 5 
The colour of the flowers is pale yellow, with a purple blotch on the lip and on 
the bifid tongue at the base of the column. 
Рілте 344.—Pantlingia paradoza, Prain. Two plants, of natural size. Fig. 1 a flower, 2 bract, 
ovary and flower, vicwed from the side, 3 the lip flattened out, 4 the column, showing the anther and 
the auricles by the side of it, the transverse plate proceeding from the front of the column, and the 2-lobed 
obliquely pointed fleshy process at its base, 5 pollinia; all enlarged, 
68. Gastrodia, R. Brown. 
Terrestrial leafless herbs of a brown colour with rhizomes and elongated roots. Stem 
erect, sheathed. Flowers in a lax raceme. Sepals connate into a ventricose tube 3-toothed 
sat the apex. Petals minute, inserted close to two of the sinuses. of the mouth of the 
sepaline tube. Lip short, adnate to the foot of the column, oblong, entire, clawed at the 
base, the claw often bearing calli, Column usually long, narrowly winged, the foot short; 
rostellum small, stigma large, Anther terminal, convex; pollinia two, sub-clavate, without 
caudicle or gland. Species nine, Asiatic and Australasian. 
Gasrropia Dyertana, King and Pantling in Journ. Ав. Soc. Beng., 
Vol. LXIV, pt. 2, 342. 
Rhizome short, twice as thick as the stem, horizontal, with slender spreading roots. 
Stem about the thickness of a crow-quill, 12 to 15 in. long, bearing, at interyals, sheathing 
Axx. Roy. Bor. Garn., Cancurra, Vor, VIII. 
