Goodyera. | CXX. ORCHIDEJE. 318 
G. viridiflora, Blume, Orchid. 41, 9 C. Stems ascending from 
i in to 1 ft. Leaves on rather long doi dilated at the base into a 
oose scarious sheath, the lamina: ovate-lanceo ate or ovate-oblong, 
o 3in. long; and usually 2 or 3:empty scarious bracts above the 
sss — rather distant, in a spike i , the bracts 
ranous, subulate-acumina as as os ovary. 
Dorsal ivi and petals 3 to 4 lines long, the ab pin d more 
cave, rather copiously fringed inside with short cilia near the base. 
m e 
ong acuminate anther, stigma pouch-like, almost truncate. -— Neottia 
viridiflora, Blume Bijdr. 408; Lindl. Gen. and Sp. Orch. il Georchis 
cordata, Tunt Gen. and Sp. ‘Orch. 496 ; Georohis viridiflora, F. Muell. 
C quM viii. 99. 
dint; ‘ 1 repens Gs ras 
identified the specimens with the G. Aceh Lindl., en Sikkim, which only differs 
z the leaves being rather more cordate at the ben and it also a es to be identical 
2. G. bip deg al F. Muell. Fragm. viii. 99. piema from a creep- 
aceme. Leaves 
ing rhizome ascending, about 8 in. long includi 
Erst above the nog scarious sheath, pd a eg 1} to 3 in. 
ong. se loose, the flo mall on ovary attenuate up- 
wards. Bracts lanceolate, about as long as "On ovary. Sepals and 
v 
petals about 14 lines long, TOR or ovate-lanceolate, the sepals acute 
al. L abellum not very 
lanceolate, undivided, with an almost au -like pend e on each side 
at nad base on the margin of the membrane connecting the stigma and 
Seems nsland. Rockingham bay, Dallachy.—A si single specimen in Herb. F. Mueller. 
> "soe of the a d is that of Bhomboda, Mut the gla pu or crest. jo appen- 
eri 
: dagos a t the bas the rostellum those of some species etæria (Eteria or 
d Blume ; ; n the ecc, pz Je the. mine uera 28 es of those two 
genera. Neither n these technical characters "a 
the typical Good; Sos but pro bei ably a general revisi n good oe woul 
| quire the extension of the genus even beyond the limits proposed by Blu 
96. SPIRANTHES, Rich. 
= Dorsal sepal and petals erect, connivent or slightly coherent in an 
Upper lip or galea, or the ends alone spreading. Lateral sepals free and 
more spreading, all nearly equal. Labellum sessile or nearly so 
Vitis the column by its broad base, undivided, often dilated at the 
