Gastrodia.'] oxlviii. obohide^, (J. D. Hooker.) 123 



8. G.java,nica,,JS!ndl. Gen. Plcmt. 212; lip free from tie tube of the 

 perianth, blade broadly hastately cordate with two thickened ridges 

 on the disk. Idndl. Gen. & Sp. Orchid. 384 ; Thwaites Snum,. 311 ; Blwme, 

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

 Bijdr. 421, t. 4. 



Ceyloit ; near Katnapoora, &c., Thwaites. 



I have seen no specimen of the Oeylon 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 

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

 plant in Herb. Kew collected by Lobb. 



4. G. ? Basseltll, Blume Mus. Bot. ii. 175 ; Orchid. Archip. Ind. 

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

 late J in. long, lip quite free, claw slender, limb suborbioular with a broad 

 truncate tip. 



Pbbak, le. Seorteohini. — Dibteib. Java. 



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



5. Or. exlliS; MooTc. f. Ic. Plant, ined. ; yery 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 Amwee in grassy places, alt. 3000 ft., J. J). H. S( T. T. 



TaSer 4-f in., oblong ; stem 6-12 in., filiform. JSaceme* few and lax-fld.; bracts 

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

 shortly 5-lobed 5 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) 

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



100/1. VOANIA, Maxim. 



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

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

 broadly ovate, i^ 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 ; poUinia 4, pulpy, sectile, attached in pairs to a viscid 

 gland. 



Y. japonlca, Maxim, in Bull. Acad. St. Petersh. xviii. 68; Mel. 

 Biol. viii. 647 ; Benth. in Hoot;. Ic. PI. 1. 1364. 



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

 Kohima, Praw.— DisTBiB. Japan. , , „. ^ „ ■ ^ ^ 



Brownish-white, glabrous. RootstocTc stout, branched, btem 3-6 m., tortuous 

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

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

 ' ovary 1-1| in. ■ sepals f in. long, and oblique obtuse petals many-nerved ; hp 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. Capmle 2-2^ m. 

 long, stoutly pedicelled, erect, narrowly fusiform, ribs very stout.-Exeepb in that 

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



