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adnate to the foot of the column and to the perianth, blade entire. Column usually 
long, narrowly winged, its foot short or none; rostellum small, stigma large. Anther 
terminal, convex, tumid; pollinia 2, subclavate, without caudicle or gland.—Species 9, 
Asiatic and Australian, 
GASTRODIA OROBANCHOIDES Benth. in Gen. РІ. ui, 617. 
Root a large oblong or ellipsoid often annulate tuber, parasitic by a small fibrous 
base to the roots of other plants. Stem 9:2 to 6 dm. long, usually very stout; sheaths 
distant, short, loose, the lowest one almost truncate, the upper acute or acuminate 
Жасете 2 to 3 dm, long, laxly many-flowered; floral bract linear-lanceolate, acuminate, 
often longer than the ovary, 3-nerved. Flowers sub-erect, light reddish-brown tinged with 
yellow. Perianth about 12 mm. long, ventricose and slightly gibbous, slit half-way down 
in front on either side of the lip to the level of the insertion of the lutter. Sepals 
all equal, obtuse. Petals sub-orbicular, inserted within the sinuses of the sepals and а 
little shorter than them. Zip longer than the sepals and about half the length of the 
perianth, ovate, its edges undulate, the apex concave and reflexed. Ройша obovate. 
bipartite, coarsely granulate, Capsule about 2 cm. long, erect, turgid. Hook. f. Ic. РІ, 
t. 1852; Fl. Br. Ind, vi, 122; Collett Fl. Siml. 497. Gamoplezis Fale. in Royle Ill., 
364; Lindl. Gen, and Sp. Orch. 334. 6. orobanchoides Falc. in Trans. Linn. Бос, хх, 
293, t. 13. | 
Kashmir and on the Мштее Hills at about 7,000 feet, Aitchison; Chenab Valley, 
Baden-Powell; Bashahr Hills at about 7,000 feet, Lace No. 978; Simla Hills 7,000 to 
8,000 feet, 7. Thomson, Gamble No, 6217; Babington-Smith; Kangra district, Duthic’s 
Collector No. 23343; Deoban in Jaunsar at 9,000 feet, Gamble No. 27284; Garhwal, 
Falconer ; Mussoorie Hills, Mackinnon (Duthie's No. 22984), Duthie’s collector No. 24163; 
near Naini Tal in Kumaon, F. W. Seers. Flowers in July and August. 
PLATE 121. Gastrodia orobanchoides Benth. Upper and lower portions of plant,—of 
natural size, Fig. 1, single flower; 2, perianth, spread out; 3, side view of column and 
ovary; 4, front view of ditto; 5 and 6, anther; 7, pollinia; 8, capsule; 9, transverse 
section of ditto;—al enlarged. 
81. Aphyllorchis Blume, 
Terrestrial leafless herbs with rhizomes and thick roots. Stem simple, sheathed. 
Flowers in racemes, brown-coloured. Sepals subequal, 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 3lobed. Column usually rather long, not winged. Stigma anticous, concave, ovate 
or oblong or clavate.—Species about 6, Indian and Malayan. 
APHYLLORCHIS Gottant Duthie in Journ, As. Soc. Beng. lxxi, part 2, p. 42. 
A tall scapigerous parasite. Rhizome with far-extending thick fleshy roots, not scaly 
Scape 4 to 5 dm. high, erect, stout, bearing several unequal tubular blunt sheaths 
Raceme about 1 dm. long. Flowers 8 to 10, crowded, $3 cm. long; floral bract longer 
Ann. Вот. Вот Garn., Carc, Vor. IX. 
