GastrocMlm,'] oxlix. soitamine^. (J, G. Baker.) 217 



7. CASTROCHXXiVS, Wall. 



Perennial, rarely annual ; rootstock or creeping ; root-fibres cylindrio 

 or slender. Leafy stem absent or present. Leaves oblong, acute. Flowers 

 solitary or spicate, often secund. Galyx short, spathaceous. Corolla-ivihe 

 slender; segments equal, connivent, linear- oblong, ascending; lateral 

 staminodes petaloid, broader than the corolla lobes, oblanceolate-oblong; 

 filament very short ; anther-cells parallel, connective neither crested nor 

 spurred; lip oblong, longer than the corolla-segments, entire. Ovary 

 oblong, 3-celled ; ovules few, or many, superposed ; style filiform ; stigma 

 subglobose. Capsule oblong. Seeds ovoid, aril small basal. — India and 

 one other species from China. 



1. e. longrlflora, Wall. Plant. Asiat. Bar. i. 22, t. 25 ; Cat. 6589 ; 

 perennial, stemless, leaves large long-petioled often cordate, flowers 1-2 

 in radical spikes, corolla-tube much longer than the bracts, staminodes 

 ■white rather longer than the white corolla-segments. Hook, in Sot. Mag. 

 t. 4010; Moran. Prodr. 22. Alpinia Hamiltoniana, Wall. Cat. 6579. 

 Banglium sulphureum, Sam. mss. 



SiEEiM Himalaya, Khasia Hills, Assau, and from Fsan and Upfeb BuBMi 

 to Malacca. 



Root-Jibres tufted, cyrmdrlc. Leaves about 4 in a tuft ; petiole long, erect, 

 channelled j blade ^1 ft. or more, base cordate or enneate, often tinged purple 

 beneath. Scape radical; bracts about 2 in., many, imbricate, scarious, oblong- 

 lanceolate. Calt/x much shorter than the bract. CoroZZa-tube 2-3 in., very slender ; 

 segments ^1 in. Stamen rather shorter than the corolla-segments ; lip half as long 

 again as the corolla-segments, oblong-cuneate, sometimes 1 in. broad, more or less 

 tinged with red and crisped on the incurved margins.— Perhaps more than one species 

 is included. The Bot. Mag. plant is 0. Jenkinsii, Wall. mss. and has larger flowers 

 thau that figured by Wallich, of a purer white, the lip tipped with bright red. G. 

 speciosa, Kurz mss. has still larger flowers of a dull sulphur yellow, with the sides of 

 the lip clouded with purple. 



2. Cr. minor; King mss, ; perennial, stemless, leaves oblanceolate- 

 oblong long-petioled, corolla-tube not longer than the bract, staminodes 

 and lip scarcely longer than the corolla-segments. 



Peeak, King's Collector. 



Rootstock slender, widely creeping. Leaves 1-4 in a tuft ; petiole 3.-4 in. ; blade 

 4-5 in., glabrous, moderately firm, narrowed to the base. Flowers several in a 

 sessile spike; bracts 2 in., lanceolate, membranous. OoroUa-tube slender to the 

 apex ; segments 1 in., oblong, whitish ; lip oblong, marked with red and yellow, with 

 a decurved tip and incurved margins. 



3. 6. pulcherrlma; Wall. PI. Asiat. Bar. i. 22, t. 24; perennial, 

 leafy stem usually produced, leaves sessile or shortly petioled, flowers many 

 in terminal spikes with imbricate bracts, corolla-tube not longer than the 

 bract, staminodes white not longer than the white corolla-segments. 

 Paxt. Mag. Bot. vii. 75, with fig. ; Boi. Mag. t. 3930 ; Eoran. Prodr. 22. 



Pb&tt, Wallich; Tavot, Qomex; Tenassebim, Selfer, Lohh, Fa/rish; PBNANa, 



-Sootsiocfc creeping; root-fibres thick, fleshy. /Sfem 6-12 in., rarely 0. Leaves 

 4-6 in., oblong, caudate. Spike sessile, 2-3 in. ; bracts oblong-lanceolate, green, about 

 1-J in. Calyx spathaceous, rather shorter than the bract. CoroHo-segments linear- 

 oblong, i in. Stamen shorter than the corolla-segments ; lip 1 in., obovate-cuneate, 

 white tinged with pink. 



