APHYLLORCHIS. 961 
Epiphanes and Gastrodia); Hemsl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. XX, 311, t. 28; Hook. fil. Fl. 
Br. India, VI, 121. Leucorchis sylvatica, Blume Mus. Bot. Lugd. Bat. I, 31; Flore 
Jav, Och. 123 (with wood-cut). Apetalon minutum, Wight le. t. 1758; Bluitio Lt 
124 (with wood-cut). . Arethusa ecristata, Griff. Notul., ІП, 978; Ic. Plant. Asiat, t 343, 
344, A. bengalensis, Hort. Bot. Cale. 
Sikkim, in the bottoms of tropical valleys, usually under clumps of bamboo 
and evidently parasitic on their roots; in flower during May and June; Pantling 
No. 146. Distributed over the whole of Bengal and Assam from the base of the 
Sikkim Himalaya to the Bay of Bengal; also іп Southern India and Perak. 
The colour of the whole plant is ochraceous white, the flowers being барса 
with warm brown. The growth of the flower-pedicel after fertilization of the ovary 
is very remarkable. 
Prate 346.— Didymoplezis pallens, Griff. Plants in flower and fruit, of natural size. Fig. 1 a 
flower, 2 pedicel, ovary and flower, seen from the side, 3 apex of ovary, column and lip, in profile, 
4 floral bract and part of pedicel, 5 the lip, spread out, 6 apex of ovary and column with 
anther іп situ, 7 apex of column after removal of the anther, showing the three ж teeth, 
8 anther, 9 pollinia; ай enlarged. 
70. Aphyllorchis, Blume. 
Terrestrial leafless herbs with rhizomes and thick roots, Stem simple, sheathed. 
Flowers racemose, brown in colour. Sepals sub-equal, free, erect or spreading. Petals 
smaller than the sepals. Lip sessile on the base of the column or attached to it by 
a short claw, as long as the sepals, oblong, sometimes auricled at the base, entire or 
3-lobed. Column usually rather long, wingless. Stigma anticous, concave, ovate or. 
oblong. Anther shortly stipitate, its cells contiguous; pollinia oblong or clavate. Species 
about five, Indian and Malayan. 
Floral bract much longer than the ovary, strongly reflexed . . . . J. Р, alpina. 
Floral bract shorter than the ovary, not reflexed. 
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1. APHYLLORCHIS ALPINA, new species. 
| Height of the whole plant 18 to 90 inches. Rhizome elongate, loosely clothed 
with small imbricating polished scales. Stem nearly as thick as the little finger, 
bearing numerous unequal tubular blunt sheaths ‘5 to 25 in. long. Raceme 8 to 12 
in. long. Flowers 775 to 1 in. across, numerous, distant; the ovary and its slender 
stalk about 195 in. long; floral Фғасі large, linear, acuminate, much deflexed, 
1 to 195 in. long. Sepals sub-equal, lanceolate, acuminate, concave, spreading. 
Petals smaller than the sepals, ovate-lanceolate, the midrib thickened on the outer 
surface. Lip shorter than the petals, clawed; the claw winged, adnate to the sides 
of the column and forming with them a small pouch; the basal half with erect 
rounded sides; the apical half ovate, acute, with involute margins and an elliptic 
convexity near the apex. Column stout, curved, striate on its anterior surface; the 
