CXXV. OECHIDACE.E. 695 



Lip i in. long by f in broad across the side lobes, white or yellow 

 flushed with pink or purple ; side lobes short, rounded ; midlobe | in. 

 long, obovate oblong, obtuse, crimped ; disk with about 9 strong nerves. 

 Column short with a long foot. Capsules 1| in. long, fusiform, con- 

 spicuously ribbed ; pedicels of capsules very short. Fl. B. I. v. 6, p. 5 ; 

 King & Pantl. in Ann. Eoy. Bot. Gard. Calc. v. 8 (1898) p. 180, 

 t. 243 ; Trim. Fl. Ceyl. v. 4, p. 177 ; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 

 (1899) p. 519; Prain, Beng. PI. p. 1016. EulopUa bicolor, Dalz. in 

 Kew Journ. Bot. v. 3 (1851) p. 343 ; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 264. Cyrtoptera 

 fusca, Wight, Icon, v, 5, part 1 (1852) p. 11, t. 1690. — Flowers : June. 

 Veen. AmbarTccmd. 



KoNKAN : Stocks !, Balzell ! S. M. Country : RamghiU, Eitchie, 708 ! ; Londa, 

 Woodrow. Kanaka : Kdla naddi, Ritchie, 708 ! — Distrib. ludia (Chota Nagpur, Assam, 

 Birma, Pegu, Tenasserim, W. Peninsula) ; Ceylon. 



14. GEODORUM, Jackson. 

 Terrestrial herbs with underground subglobose rhizomes. Leaves 

 elliptic, plicate, their sheaths forming a pseudo-stem. Flowers rather 

 crowded, in corymbose racemes decurved at first ; bracts narrow, mem- 

 branous ; scape from the base of the pseudo-stem. Sepals equal, oblong, 

 subacute, erect. Petals as long as the sepals but broader and blunt. 

 Lip sessile on the base of the column ; side lobes ; apical lobe broad, 

 rounded, 2-fid or emarginate ; disk with a forked basal callus. Column 

 less than half the length of the lip; anther broad, 2-celled ; pollinia 2, 

 broadly ovoid, attached by a tapering slender caudicle to a small 

 orbicular gland. — Distbib. Species 9 or 10, Indian, Malayan, and 

 Australian. 



1. Geodorum dilatatum, R. Br. in Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 2, v. 5 (1813) 

 p. 207. Tubers globular, apiculate, 1^ in. in diam. Pseudo-stem 

 3-6 in. long. Leaves 6-20 by 1^-4 in., elliptic, acute, tapering at the 

 base to a long sheath. Flowers pale purple or rose-colored, in racemes 

 which are short, corymbose, and drooping when in flower, but lengthening 

 and erect in fruit ; bi'act | in. long, linear-lanceolate, acute ; pedicels 

 with ovary shorter than the bracts. Sepals -| by -^ in., oblong, acute. 

 Petals f by i in., oblong, obtuse. Lip pale purple with darker 

 markings, f by |- in., veutricose at the base, subpaudurate, without side 

 lobes ; the apical lobe broad, rounded, 2-fid or emarginate ; disk with a 

 channelled ridge ending in raised yellow calii. Pollinia 2, with elongate 

 pits on their posterior surface. Fl. B. I. v. 6, p. 17 ; Dalz. & Gibs. 

 p. 266 ; Prain, Beng. PL p. 1017. Geodorum purpureum, Hook. f. Fl. 

 B. I. V. 6 (1890) p. 16 in part ; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 266 ; King & Pantling, 

 in Ann. Eoy. Bot. Gard. Calc. v. 8 (1898) p. 181, t. 245; Woodr. in 

 Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (1899) p. 519. Limodorum recurvum, Eoxb. 

 Cor. PI. v. 1 (1795) t. 39, & Fl. Ind. v. 3 (1832) p. 469. Malaxis cerniia, 

 Willd. Sp. PI. V. 4 (1805) p. 93 ; Grab. Cat. p. 203. Bela-pola, Eheede, 

 Hort. Mai. v. 11, p. 69, t. 35. — Flowers : June-July. 



KoNKAN : Stoc/cs !, Law I, Dalciell ! ; S. Konkan, Grahcmi ; Ghats in S. Konkan, 

 Stocks, 42 ! ; Wari country, Dalzdl ^ Gibson. Kanaka : Kala naddi, Bitchie, 1420 1 — 

 Distrib. India(Sikkim,Nepal,Assain, Bengal, Andaman Islands, W. Peninsula); Ceylon. 



I have followed Colonel Prain (Beng. Pi. p. 1017) in calling this G. dilatatuin, Br. 

 (Limodorum recurvum; Roxb.). The description given by Brown in Ait. Hort. 

 Kew. of G purpureum [Limodorum nutans, Roxb.), derived probably from Roxburgh's. 



