372 NOTE ON ELÆAGNUS GONYANTHES. 
Rchb. fil., Koch, Visiani. Habenaria, Rob. Brown, Hooker and Arnott. 
Orchis, Grenier.* Bicchia, Parlatore.t 
P. VIRIDIS.— Platanthera, Rchb. fil. Habenaria, Rob. Brown, 
Nees jun., Babington, Hooker and Arnott. Cæloglossum, Hartmann, 
Fries, Nyman, Koch, Parlatore. Orchis, Grenier,* Willkomm. Gym- 
nadenia, Cosson and Germain 
And, according to Bentham, Lindley’s P. chloranthus is identical 
with his previously described Cæloglossum lacertiferum, so that the un- 
satisfactory state of the Ophrydeous genera is very evident. They all 
need careful revision, and no doubt great reduction, the limits of each 
requiring to be carefully determined from an examination of all the 
species, exotic as well as European. It is on this account that I have 
drawn up a longer diagnosis than usual for the Chinese plant. I can- 
not detect in it, after careful dissection of living specimens, the appendix . 
of the outer anther-valve to which Blume alludes, and appears to regard 
as of consequence ;. nor can I make out that he represents such a struc- 
ture in his figure of P. grandis (tabellen xxx.) ; but I have no ex- 
planatory text to these very rare illustrations. 
NOTE ON ZLAZAGNUS GONYANTHES, Benth. 
By H. F. Hance, Pa.D. 
In this plant, which grows abundantly in thickets of the rocky islet 
in Macao harbour, called ‘ Ilha verde,’ and elsewhere near that settle- 
ment, I ze a peculiar carpical structure, worth recording. 
The escent, carnose, perigone-tube, covering the fruit, is most 
densely poer inside with a close, long, white, silky cotton, matted 
together into a tough, pannose texture, so that it resembles the cocoons 
of ‘Shepherd-spiders,’ rather than anything else to which I can com- 
pare it. This web has not the slightest attachment to the putamen, 
which in this species is subcoriaceous, not osseous, or might, indeed, 
perhaps, better be called membranaceous, though thicker than the peri- 
* Lindley is quoted by this atier (Fl. de mee iii. 208) as referring these 
species latanthera, the vts of his Gen. and Sp. Orchid., where they are 
distinctly placed under Peris us, being exact: given 
See his observations on Poritiglas (FI. Ital. ui. 396). 
