312 ` CXX. ORCHIDER, [Ramphidia. 
24. RAMPHIDIA, Lindl. 
Mr leafy stem. Flow wers small, in a slender terminal poin 
he genus is spread over East ise and the idees Sta the only putes species 
having Snak the range of the g 
1. R. tenuis, Lindl. in Journ. Linn. Soe. i. 189. Stems ascending to 
from 6 in. to 1 ft. Leaves on "Peur petioles, dilated at the base into 
a broad loose scarious sheath of , the lamina elliptic-oblong to 
1} to 3 in. long, pA pent 2 or 3 Ex empty 
sheathing-bracts above the leaves. Flowers very small, senos 
B or 4 in., the bracts almost subulate, the ae a as enu 
the lateral sepals, saili oblong, very concave, very obt tuse, the mar- 
gins and end inflexed, entire or ed crisped. Anther and rostellum 
about equal in rie dede and half as ed as the labellum. 
Queensland. Mackay and Rockingham bay, Dallachy.—lhe s pecimens 
et precisely P ie one op ARNa dede by ds i the Philippine 
25. GOODYERA, R. Br. 
Dorsal sepal and petals erect connivent and often connate ; lateral 
sepals as long, spreading. Labellum sessile, igh lie op the column 
and sometimes adnate to it at the base, concave or almost saccate, aie 
or divided into two lobes. Anthers erect. Pollen-masses granula j 
attached to long caudicles.—Terrestrial herbs, with a creeping rhizome 
and weak ascendin leafy stems. Flowers in ’ terminal spikes, loose in 
the AUS species, dense and one-sided in the typical northern 
ones. 
The genus is po distributed over the ieipiodl and temperate r pae of the Old 
World. Ofthe two Australian ib etin one appears identical with an Asiatic one, the 
other, as far as Ai is endemic 
Rostellum divided into 2 long is lobes oe. appendages at HT 
the bere. Sepals and petals 3 to 4 line 4 1. G. viridiflora. 
anceolate, undivided, with a fer ike appendage on : 
each side » the base, Sepals and petals 14 lines long. ia. polygonoides. 
