2 1 4 Ol'cJlidece. \Goodyera. 



1. G-. procera, Hook. Exot. Fl. i. t. 39 (1833). 



Lindl. Gen. and Sp. Orch. 493. Thw. Enum. 313. C. P. 597. 

 Fl. B. Ind. vi. in. Wight, Ic. t. 1729. Bot. Reg. t. 639 {Neottia 

 procera). Ann. Bot. Gard. Calcutt. viii. t. 378. 



Stem tall, stout, 2-3 ft. high, from a prostrate rooting base 

 as thick as the little finger, leafy; roots long, vermiform; 

 1. 4-8 by 1-2 in., petioled, oval or oval-lanceolate, acuminate, 

 pennivcined from a stout midrib, veins very obliquely ascend- 

 ing ; petiole 2-3 in., very stout, dilated into a broad open 

 sheath; ped. stout or slender, strict or flexuous, sheaths 

 many, large, lanceolate, acuminate, lower foliaceous; 

 spike 3-6 in., cylindric, dense-fld., rhachis glabrous or pu- 

 bescent, bracts lanceolate, as long as the ov. ; fl. small; sep. 

 spreading and recurved, iV in. long, dorsal oblong, lateral 

 broadly ovate, obtuse ; pet. spathulate; lip as long as the sep., 

 cymbiform, setose within, and with two large calli towards 

 the recurved tip; column very short, rostellum bifid; anth. 

 broadly ovate, pollinia broadly pyriform, sessile on the oblong 

 gland. 



Moist region in damp places to 4000 ft.; common. Fl. Jan., June; 

 orange-cream coloured, fragrant. 



S. India, Trop. Himalaya, Burma, China, Java. 



2. KSt. fumata, TJno. Emim. 314.(1861). 

 C. P. 3668. 



Fl. B. Ind. vi. in. Ann. Bot. Gard. Calcutt. viii. t. y]"]. 



Stem 3 ft. high, stout, leafy; 1. 6-10 by 3-4 in., obliquely 

 oval-lanceolate, veins many, obliquely ascending, most of 

 them from towards the base of the midrib, petiole 2-4 in., 

 stout, sheaths broad, inflated ; ped. stout, and spike glandular- 

 pubescent, sheaths large, lower leafy, bracts as long as the 

 fl. or shorter, lower larger, foliaceous; spike a foot long, stout, 

 lax-fld., bracts longer than the ov., ?, in., ovate-lanceolate, 

 acuminate, membranous; sep. \-\ in. long, dorsal ovate- 

 lanceolate, lateral ovate, acute, 3-veined; pet. dimidiate- 

 lanceolate, acuminate, falcate; lip short, rhomboidly orbicular, 

 concave, as broad as long, strongly many-veined, abruptly 

 contracted into a revolute ligulate, acuminate tail, glandular 

 within ; column long, slender, arched, tip dilated, funnel- 

 shaped, rostellum elongate, erect, entire or 2-toothcd; anth. 

 broadly ovate, acute, pollinia clavate, sessile on a small oblong 

 gland. 



Central Province; rare (Thwaites). The C. P. specimens, all I have 

 seen, are localised ' Ambagamuwa,' with a ?. Fl. December; sep. and 

 pet. pinkish-green, lip pale yellow. 



Also in the .Sikkim Himalaya. 



The column is incorrectly described in Fl. B. ind. 



