632 ORCHIDES. 



GEODORUM. 



2. GKODORUM DILATATUM R. Br. Bot. Reg. t. 675. (bad). L.O.. no. 3. Wight ic. 3. 

 tab. 912. Lindl. Folia sub 2: 



LimQdorum rccurvum. Ro.\b. (:oroman<ieI piants, L t. 39. — Malaxis cer- 



nun. Willd. IV. 93. — Otandra cernua. Salisb. in Hort. Trans., I., 26t.— 



Gcodorum j^allidum. Don. prodr. (1. Nep. 31. 



A common Indian species , wiih whitish flowers , niarked wiih pink streaks and 



yeilow. It has large falcate bracts. which in a dried slate are membranous. The 



lip is eilher crenulate or enlire at ihe edge. The scape is the tallest of any ex- 



cept G. purpureum. 



Wild in the East Indies ; moist valleys among the Circnrs— Roxb. ; Ceylon— Macrae, 

 Walker; Sikkim. at 3000 feet — J. D. Hooker ; Sylhet — Wallich (v. s. sp.) 



06.9. Wight I. c. ,,I found it within a few miles of Coimbatore Kanatbkoovoodoa. 

 Aug. 1813. in clefts of rocks under the sh^de of bushes." 



3. GLODOMUM PICTUM LO.. no. 2. Lindl. Folia sub 3 : 



This plant has broad nearly sessile leaves , and a dense obiong refractod raceme. 

 The bracts and vaginae are not membranous, when dried. 



Wiid in tropical New Holland— R. Brown; Wide Bay — Bidwill. (Iiab. s. sp. comm. 

 cel. Hooker.) 



4. GEODORUM RARIFLORUM Lindl. Fol. sub 4: 



G. foliis longe petioialis, scapo breviore, vaginis bracteisque parvis 

 herbaceis, racenio raro, labello basi scrotiformi ovato obtuso emargi- 

 nato callo sublibero minime bidentato caeterum nudo. 



I found some specimens of tliis, under the name of Limodoruni candidum . among 

 some miscellaneous Assam plants given me by Sir W. Hooker. It has a more 

 distinct spur, than any other, and narrow spreading sepals. There is no callosity at 

 the mouth of ihe pouch. 



Wild in Assam— Jenkins (v. .s. sp. comni. cel. Hooker.) 



5. GEODORUM FUCATUM Lindl. in Bot. Reg. t. 1687. Folia Nr. 5. 



Wild in Ceylon, — Walker. (v. sp. in herb. Ilooker.) 



A verry pretty rose-coloured species , readily known by the pair ol parallel fleshy 

 ribs, which represent the free callus of ihe preceding species, and by its gibbous lip. 

 Obs. Lindley 1. c. Geodorum fucatum: Scapo florifero folio duplo brcviore . spica 

 pendula congesta , labello gibboso ovato emarginato iniegerrimo , lineis duabus cal- 

 losis elevatis. Folia e tubere subterraneo cucullalim cicatrizaio erumpeniia, oblongo 

 lanceolata, acuta, plicata, pedem longa, scapo florilero duplo longiora , frugifero sub- 

 aequalia. Scapus radicalis. erectus, vaginatus, apice recurvus, et spicam ideo paiu- 

 lam , partibus omnibus inversis, compactam , brevem gcrens. Bracteae^ lineares, 

 aculae , ovarii longitudine. Flores subcampanulali , magnitudine et facie G. dilatati. 

 Sepala lineari-oblonga, acuta, rosea . apice paululum recurva peialis paulo latioribus 

 omnino conformia et parallela. Labellum ob spicam inversam anticum , revero posti- 

 cum, ovatum, subtus'gibbosum, cum columna parallelum et continuum, nec articulatum, 

 integerrimum , cmarginatum : roseum venis lateralibus intensioribus pictum ; lineis 

 duabus laiis, elevalis, parallelis, comiguis , ochraceo-sanguineis in nieilio. 



Ceylon. VVatson. — Resembles G. dilatatum, but has ralher smaller flowers and a 

 very dilTereni labellum. 



6. GEODORUM JAVA.MCUM Lindl. I. c. sub 6: 



G. foliis oblongis sessilibus scapo iinivaginalo aequalibus , bracleis 

 lieibaceis angustissimis ovario aeqnalibus, lloribus carnosis, Jabello re- 

 liiso callo tricostalo tuberculoque didymo ad ostiiim sacci. 



Cislella cernuu Blume Bijdr. 293. t. 55. 

 The ligure in Biume is so bad, that no une could suppose il belongcd to tiie plant 

 now before me ; and yet I presume ihere can be no doubt about tbe maiter. The 

 bracts are small, very narrow and herbaceous, and the flowers when dry bave a sin- 



