Plate 2187. 



GOODYERA CORDATA, BentJi 

 ORCHiDEiE. Subtribe Spiranthe^. 



G. cr-riJata, Bevfh. in Herb. Keiv, ; gracili?', foliis ovato-cordr*ti^ 3- 

 rervils, spica pauci-laxiflora pubernla, bracteis floribas inagiiis sub- 

 ^I'ectis brevioribns, sepalis ovato-lanceolatis, petalis diiuidiato-obovatis 

 snbfalcatis, labello rhumboldeo-ovato subsaccato intus setoso. Nichols, 

 iJtcL Gard, ii. 810. HooJc. / Fl BriL lad. vi. 114. Georcbis cor- 

 data, Lindl, Gen, ^ Sp. Orchid. 496 (ea'cL Habitat,) ; Eeichb. f. in 

 Gard. Chron, lb79, u, 520. 



Hab. Khasia Hills, alt. 3,000-4,000 feet. J. D. Hool'er and T, 

 Thomson] Naga Hills, in Upper Assam, Prain, PPerak, Father 

 Scortechini, 



Caulis unacum scapo et spica 6-12-pollicaris, radices paucas 

 simplices elongatas crassas emittens. Folia 1^— 2| poll, longa, basi 

 rotundata v. cordata, obtusa v. acuta ; petiolo gracili, ^^ poll, longo. 



/Scap?t6 unibracteatiis, unacnm bracteis floribusque pallide £usco-rube 

 spica 4-8-flora ; Acres remoti, 1 poll. lati. Sepala trinervia, apicibus 

 obtusis- Fetala snbacinaciforniia. 3-nervia, obtusa. Lalellum miilti- 

 nervp, sepalis brevius, apice acutum v. obtusiusculum. Cohtmna lata ; 

 rostelli brachia lanceolata, valde elongata; anthera longa, e basi rotun- 

 data 2-loba fere subulata ; polliuia angusta, glandules elongatse linear! 

 gracili longitudinaliter adnata. 



The plate is the reproduction of a coloured drawing made at Pom- 

 rang, in the Khasia Hills, by myself in Septemher 1850. ^ There is a 

 plant very much like it found in Perak by father Scortechini, in which 

 the setiB "nearest the tip, in the interior of the lip, are clavellate. 

 Lindley's habitat of Ceylon (Macrae) is most probably an error ; the 

 specimen he described was probably received from the Khasia Hills, 

 and collected by GriflBth, who sent orchids to Lindley.— J. D. II. 



Fig. 1. Latenil. ami 2, dorsal, sopiil. 3. Petiil. 4. Lip laid opeu. 6. Column. 

 6. Anther. 7- rolUuia. All aihmjuL 



