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es ORCHIDACEZ. —_—[ Eriracts. 
Height of plant.1-2 ft. Stem leafy, slender, glabrous. Leaves 4-7 in. long, 
lanceolate, acuminate; uppermost shorter and much narrower ; 
nerves prominent. Raceme 4-6 in. long, laxly fid., rhachis tomentose. 
Flowers 1-1} in. across ; flowering bracts ovate or linear-lanceolate, 
varying insize. Sepals spreading, unequal, concave, clothed with 
white hairs on a deep-lavender ground, green inside as are both sur- 
faces of the petals, and marked with broad bands of reddish-brown ; 
dorsal sepal lanceolate, acute; lateral pair much breader. Petals 
ovate, acute, tomentose on the stout midrib beneath. Jip rather 
shorter than the sepals; hypochile purple, trough-shaped, bearing 
granular unequal calli inside, with two larger obtuse nectar-exuding 
ones near the apex; epichile pale brown, lanceolate and with. 
erect lobes ; upper surface with a median ridge terminating within the 
white apex. Column stout, curved; stigmas large, subrotund and 
with two glands on the lower margin. Anther tumid. 
Dehra Dun (Gamble, Mackinnon); banks of canal near Saharanpur 
(Duthie). Flowers during Feb. and March. Distris.: W. Himalaya 
from the Simla Hills to Kumaon, up to 3,000 ft. and eastwards to 
Nepal and Sikkim, extending to upper Burma and China ; it is found 
also on the N. W. frontier of India in the districts of Gilgit and 
Chitral, and extends to Afghanistan and Syria. 
23. GOODYERA, R. Br. ; Fl. Brit Ind, vi, 110. 
Terrestrial leafy herbs ; stem decumbent below. Leaves usually 
rather thick, with wide sheaths and often distinct petioles. 
Flowers small, numerous, in terminal, sometimes secund, spikes 
or racemes. Sepals subequal, often pubescent outside; lateral 
pair free, subconnivent or spreading; dorsal concave. Petals 
like the dorsal sepal and forming with it a hood over the column. 
Lip adnate to base of column, entire saccate or cymbiform at the 
base ; apical lobe small, usually acute and decurved ; basal sae 
with sete calli or ridges inside, rarely smooth. Column short, 
with projecting rostellum ; stigma anticous, undivided. Anther 
usually pyriform, with a long erect beak ; pollinia,2, clavate, sessile 
on a large or small gland—Species about 25, in Europe, Temp. 
ee ae Asia, North America, New Caledonia and the Mascerene 
slands. 
G. procera, Hook, Exot. Flora, t. 39 ; Don Prod. 28 ; Royle Ill. 
384 ; F. B. I. v, Jil; K. & P. Ann. R. Bot. Gard. Calc. viii, 282, t. 
378 ; Duthie id. ix, wart 2, 165; Prain Beng. Pl. 1027. ; 
