ZEUXINE. 397 
Labellum about the length of the sepals cellular, lamina 
fleshy base sulcate beneath on either side of attachment a 
small gibbosity, limb as it were made up of two wedge-shap- 
ed lateral parts, conduplicate yellowish crescent-shaped or cu- 
neate crescent shaped with divaricate ascending lobes, re- 
mainder calceolariform, fleshy, thickened so as to assume an 
appearance of inflexed margins towards the lamina where 
also it is papillose. 
Column minute, very oblique on its dorsum and there 
forming a membranous clinandrium. Anther ovate sagittate 
base buried in the clinandrium. Pollen masses 2-lobulate, 
each combined of 2 caudicula moderate yellow. Gland linear 
whitish. Rostellum bilobed, lobes rounded stigma inconspi- 
cuous. 
This genus and also Herpysma Lindl. shews that the cha- 
racters of the pollen masses of this tribe are not to be de- 
pended on for higher distinctions than genera. 
Lindley's character as given by Endlicher does not mention 
the Pollen masses as sectile. 
There are other, or at least one other Indian form with sec- 
tile pollinia, which differs from Zeuxine in the stigma occu- 
pying the face of the column or rather in the want of adhe- 
sion of the labellum to the column, which in Zeuxine extends 
as high up as the base of the rostellum in some as iu the 
Bootan one alluded to below, produced into crura like those 
of the rostellum itself entirely concealing the stigmatic sur- 
face, which is in some as it were pushed out on either side, in 
the form or appearance of a gland. 
There are several species of the genus, as the following 
Goodyera moniliformis. 
2. Zeuxine moniliformis Gr. Pl. CCCL. Itinerary Notes 
р. 143, no. 679. 
l. Plant natural size, flower viewed laterally. 
2. Flower enlarged, two lower sepals removed. 
3. Do. upper sepal and petals partially separated and 
thrown up, labell. cut away. 
