18 CXLYIII. ORCHIDEJ;. (J. D. Hooker.) [Geodorum. 



inflorescence, and the floral are as long as the ovaries. The var. /3. albido -purpureum, 

 Par. & Reichb. f. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxx. 145, from Moulmein, has bracts as long 

 as the flowers, but none below the inflorescence, green sepals and petals, and a diugy 

 purple streaked lip. 



DOUBTFUL SPECIES. 



G. PALLIDTTM, Wall, in Don Prodr. 31. There is no specimen of this in 

 Wallich's Herbarium, nor is the name in his Catalogue ; but there is a Geodorum in 

 Herb. Kew, sent to Sir W. Hooker by Wallich from Nepal in 1818, which is, I think^ 

 purpureum as defined above. G. pallidum, Griff. 1. c. 357, from Assam and Silhet, 

 described from garden specimens, is perhaps the white-fld. purpureum j its flowers 

 are described as rather small. 



G. APPENDICULATUM, Griff, in Gale. Journ. Nat. Hist. v. 360, t. 24, is probably, 

 as suggested by Griffith, Brown's G. dilatatum. 



G. CANDIDTJM, Lindl. Fol. Orchid. 3, Limodorum candidum, Roxb., from Silhet, 

 Khasia and Moulmein, is probably dilatatum ; it is certainly not G. candidum, Wall. 

 Cat. 7374. 



G. DILATATUM, Lindl. in Sot. Reg. t. 675, is, I think, pale-fld. purpureum. 



G. FUCATUM, Lindl. in Sot. Reg. 1. 1687 ; Fol. Orchid. 5, from Ceylon, resembles 

 a small G. purpureum. Thwaites states that he has never seen it. 



G. LAXIFLOEUM, Griff". I. c. 356, t. 24, from Assam, Jenkins, strongly resembles 

 G. citrinum in its broad petals, dilated undulate emarginate white lip with the disk 

 tinged with yellow and purplish base. 



G. EAEIFLOEUM, Lindl. Fol. Orchid. 3, from Assam, is, I think, certainly 

 G. purpureum. 



GEODOEUM sp., a narrow-leaved plant, with the habit of G. purpureum, from 

 Mount Ophir, Malacca, Griffith, resembles the Philippine G. semicristatum, Lindl. 



G. JAVANICUM, Lindl. Fol. Orchid. 2. (Cistella cernua, Blume Bijdr. 293, t. 55), 

 of Java, is a small-fld. species confidently referred by Reichenbach (Sonpland. 1857, 

 43) to G. dilatatum, with the observation that Wight's G. dilatatum is a totally 

 different plant. 



43. GRABXXHATOPHYIiIiUaX, Blume. 



Large stout epiphytes. Leaves linear, distichous, jointed on their 

 sheaths. Scapes lateral, long, stout ; flowers large, racemose. Sepals and 

 petals subequal, spreading. Lip small, adnate to the base of the column 

 (mobile ?) erect, concave ; its side lobes embracing the column, midlobe 

 short recurved. Column semiterete, foot 0, top incurved ; anther broad, 2- 

 celled ; pollinia 2, subglobose, 2-cleft, attached one to each horn of a curved 

 strap or gland. Species 3 or 4, Malayan. 



G. speciosum, Blume Bijdr. 377, fig. 20; Humph, iv. 47, t. 191; 

 gigantic, flowers 6 in. diam. golden spotted with brown. Lindl. Gen. & Sp. 

 Orchid. 628 ; Miq-ue? Fl. Ind. Bat. iii. 708 ; Bot. Mag. t. 5157 ; Part. Fl. 

 Gar A. ii. t. 69; Fl. des Serres, t.1386 ; Batem. 2nd Gent. Orchid. 1. 181 ; Jard. 

 Fleur. t. 235; Gard. Chron. 1878, ii. 181, f. 36 ; 1890, i. 289, f. 46; Walp. 

 Ann. vi. 628. Gr. fastuosum, Lindl. in Paxt. Fl. Gard. ii. 159 under t. 69. 

 G. macranthum, Reichl.f. Xen. Orchid, ii. 16 ; Walp. Ann. 1. c. Pattonia 

 macrantha, Wight Ic. t. 1750. G-abertia scripta, Gaud, in Freyc. Voy. 

 Bot. 425. Cymbidium scriptum, Swartz in Schrad. Diar. 1799, 228 ; Willd. 

 Sp. PI. iv. 100. Epidendrum scriptum, Linn. Sp. PI. 1351. Rumph. 

 Amboin. vi. 95, t. 42. 



TENASSEKIM, Parish. PEEAK, Scortechini. MALACCA, Griffith (Kew Distrib. 

 5318), Maingay (K. D. 1655). DISTEIB. Java, Borneo. 



Stems 8-10 ft., tufted, as thick as the wrist. Leaves 1^-2 ft. by l|-lf in., 

 equitant, lorate, acute. Scape 4-6 ft. , as thick as the finger, terete ; bracts ovate ; 

 pedicels 4-6 in., as thick as a goose-quill j sepals and petals fleshy, obovate. oblong, 

 variable in breadth, undulate, spreading and reflexed j lip half the length of the 

 sepals, side lobes short, subacute ; midlobe ovate, hirsute, disk with depressed 



