1900 SUPPLEMENT—RECENT INTRODUCTIONS, 
GOTHIC MOTH. See Vine Moths. 
GOTHOFREDA. A 
(which see). 
GOUFFEIA. Included under Arenaria (which see). 
GOUGHIA. A synonym of Daphniphyllum (which 
see). 
GOUTY GERANIUM. See Pelargonium gib- 
bosum. 
GOVENIA. Syn. Eucnemis. To the species 
described on p. 87, Vol. IL, the following should be 
added: 
G. sulphurea (sulphur). #. rather large ; sepals light sulphur, 
the lateral ones rather broader than the cuneate-lanceolate 
upper one; petals white on the disk, sulphur on the margin, 
with numerous broken, purnle lines; lip white, spotted dark 
brown at apex, cordate-oblong. /. scarcely 2in, broad, cuneate- 
lanceolate, acuminate. Pseudo-bulbs Onion-like. Paraguay, 
1885. A curious species. 
GOVINDOVIA. A synonym of Tropidia (which 
see). 
GRACILARIA SYRINGELLA. ‘See Syringa 
—Insects. 
GRADERIA (probably an anagram on Gerardia, the 
name of an allied genus). Syn. Bopusia. Orv. Scrophu- 
larinez. A small genus (two or three species) of many- 
stemmed, warm greenhouse herbs, natives of South Africa. 
Flowers sub-sessile; calyx  five-cleft; corolla tube 
inserted, much enlarged, the limb of five broad, sub-eqnal, 
spreading lobes ; stamens four, included. Leaves opposite 
or the upper ones alternate, ovate-lanceolate, entire, or 
euneately three- to five-cleft or pinnatifid. Only one 
species calls for description here. It is probably semi- 
parasitic. 
G. subintegra (almost entire). . rosy-lilac, Gloxinia-like, in 
y, erect racemes. J. ovate-elliptic, acute, hairy. Branches 
trailing ; rootstock woody. Transvaal, 1894. (G. C. 1893, xiv., 
p. 798, f. 122.) 
GRAFTING WAX. Apart from the use to which 
this substance is usually applied, it may be successfully 
employed for stopping holes or covering wounds in trees. 
Painter’s ‘“‘knotting’’ will be found an excellent substitute 
for Grafting Wax as ordinarily employed. It is easily 
applied, and quickly forms a coat impervious to weather. 
GRAIN. The seeds of plants of the order Graminez ; 
popularly, any small seeds. 
GRAMINCA. A synonym of Cuscuta (which see). 
GRAMMANGIS. These are best grown in baskets 
suspended near the roof-glass in the stove or East Indian 
house, and in a position where they can obtain the maxi- 
mum amount of available light. Only snfficient shade is 
required to prevent the sun’s rays from scorching the 
foliage. The potting compost shoal consist of good 
fibrous peat and living sphagnum—two parts of the former 
to one of the latter. To this may be added a liberal 
sprinkling of finely-broken crocks. The compost should 
be pressed moderately firm about the roots and base of 
the plant. The drainage should be clean and ample. 
The best time at which to repot is when the new 
roots are being emitted from the base of the last-made 
synonym of Oxypetalum 
growth. The plants require a liberal supply of water 
during the growing season. After the growths are 
matured, only sufficient moisture is required to maintain 
a plump condition of the bulbs and foliage. 
GRAMMANTHES. G. gentianoides is now the 
correct name of G. chloreflora. 
GRAMMATOPHYLLUM. Syns. Gabertia, Pat- 
tonia. Flowers showy, on long pedicels; sepals and petals 
snb-equal, free, spreading; lip affixed above the base of 
the column, erect, concave, the lateral lobes rather broad, 
erect, loosely embracing the column, the middle one short, 
recuryed-spreading, narrow or dilated; column erect, 
rather shorter than the lip ; raceme loosely many-flowered ; 
scape long, simple. Leaves distichous, often very long. 
The flowering of the remarkable G. speciosum (the 
giant of its race) in the collection of Sir T. Lawrence, 
at Burford, Dorking, in 1897, has been one of the most 
interesting events in the Orchid World. Only on four 
previous occasions had it flowered in Enrope, viz., in 
Vol. V. 
eee 401 
Grammatophyllum—continued. 
Messrs. Loddiges’ Nursery, at Hackney, in 1852; in the 
collection of Sir G. Taunton, at Leigh Park; in the 
collection of Mr. W. G. Farmer, Nonsuch Park, Ewell ; 
and imperfectly in the collection of the late Mr. John 
Day, at Totterham. 
To illustrate the gigantic proportions attained by this 
species in its native country, Mr. J. H. Veitch, in his 
“‘A Trayeller’s Notes,’ speaks of one in the Botanic 
Gardens at Penang as being 424ft. in circumference, 
its shoots from 6ft. to 7ft. long, and its seed-pods 7din. long 
(ineluding their foot-stalks) and 24in. in aearickan One 
of the last year’s racemes, of which there were thirty, 
was 7}{t. long. Mr. Veitch also added that the plant was 
in fine condition, nearly all the shoots being clothed with 
foliage of a good colour. ° 
The same writer also gives particulars of a plant of 
more gigantic proportions in the Botanic Gardens at 
Butenzorg, Java. This had forty-six racemes of flowers, 
some with twenty-four open blossoms and many more buds 
to expand. The plant was 15ft. throngh, and had stems 
9ft. long. 
It will be gathered from these particulars that to 
cultivate this species a house of considerable proportions 
will be required to accommodate it. It grows satis- 
factorily under the same conditions as that afforded to 
stove plants generally. It should be placed in a position 
where it can obtain all the available light, only shading 
to prevent actual scorching of the leaves. It requires a 
liberal supply of moisture both at the root and in the 
atmosphere Boeri the growing season, with more dryer 
conditions during the period of rest. It is an interesting 
and wonderful plant where ample accommodation is 
available. 
To the species described on p. 92, Vol. IL., the following 
should be added : 
G,. elegans (elegant).* #1. showy, six or seven on an erect peduncle 
1ft. high ; sepals sepia-brown, with ochre-yellow margins, oblong ; 
petals the same colour, narrower ; lip yellow, with brown mark: 
ings in front and a hairy disk, trifid, the front lobe wedge- 
shaped and emarginate; column white, with a pair of brown 
lines below the stigma. 7. elongated, distichous. Pseudo-bulbs 
rather large, oblong. South Sea Islands, 1883. 
G. Ellisii (Ellis’s). A synonym of Grammangis Elisii. 
G. Fenzlianum (Fenzl’s). ji. 2tin. in diameter, somewhat 
distant; sepals and petals pale yellowish-green, spotted with 
brown, the petals narrower and reflexed ; lip yellowish, obliquely 
striped with brown, the mid-lobe reflexed, while between the 
side lobes is a channelled, white plate; scapes 3ft. to 4ft. long, 
many-flowered. 7. lft. to 14ft. long, oblong or lanceolate-oblong. 
Stems pseudo-bulbous, 4in. to 6in. long. Amboyna. 
G. F. Measuresianum (Measures’). A synonym of G. Rum- 
phianum Measuresianum. 
G. Gulielmi II. (William 11.). A synonym of G. Rumphianum. 
G. Measuresianum (Measures’). A form of G. Rumphianum. 
G. pantherinum (panther-like). {- as large as those of 
Cymbidium eburneum, ‘spotted with dark blotches”; sepals 
and petals narrow cuneate-oblong, obtuse; lip cordate at base, 
trifid, with triangular segments, totally naked, ‘without any 
eee of hairs or velvet”; middle segment acute. New Guinea, 
G. Reemplerianum (Rempler’s). A synonym of Eulophiella 
Peetersiana. 
G. Rumphianum (Rumphius’). 7. erecto-patent, twenty-five to 
thirty on a scape; sepals and _ petals me yellowish-green, 
blotched with brown ; lip yellowish-white, lined with dark violet, 
ilose inside, three-lobed. 2. lanceolate-oblong, lft. or more in 
ength. Pseudo-bulbs tufted, oblong-conical, 9in. long when fully 
grown. Moluccas. (B. M. 7507.) Syn. G. Gulielmi II. 
G. R. Measuresianum (Measures’).* /., sepals and petals 
emerald-green, blotched and spotted with dark brownish-purple ; 
side lobes of lip light yellow with oblique brown lines, the front 
lobe white with three brown lines at apex. Philippine Islands, 
1889. Syns. G. Fenzlianum Measuresianum, G. Seegerianum (of 
gardens). 
G. Sanderianum (Sander’s). A clerical error in a gardening 
periodical, the plant intended being G. speciosum. 
G. seriptum (marked). /., sepals and petals yellow and red- 
spotted, equal, spreading, oblong, obtuse; lip lined with pale 
purple ; raceme many-flowered ; scape very long, rising from the 
base of the pseudo-bulb. J. lanceolate, three-nerved. Pseuido- 
bulbs transversely articulated, deeply ribbed. Moluccas. 
G. Seegerianum (Seeger’s). A garden name for G. Rumphianum 
Measuresianum. 
GRAMMICA. A synonym of Cuscuta (which see). 
3F 
