Goody era.~\ CXLVIII. ORCHIDE^. (J. D. Hooker.) 11.1 



1. G-. procera, TLook. Exot. Flor. t. 39; spike dense-fld., flowers 

 minute, lip saccate softly setose within and with 2 large calli within the ob- 

 tuse recurved tip, column very short, anther obtuse. Lindl. Gen. & Sp. 

 Orchid. 493 ; in Journ. Linn. Soc. i. 183 ; Don Prodr. 28 ; Wight c. 

 t. 1729. Gr. carnea, A. Rich, in Ann. 8c. Nat. Ser. 2, xv. 80. Cionisaccus 

 lanceolatup, Breda Orch. Kuhl et Hassk. t. 1. Cordylestylis foliosa, Fal- 

 coner in Hook. Journ. Sot. iv. (1842) 75. JSTeottia procera, Ker in Sot. Reg. 

 t. 639. Leucostachys, Hoffman Preisverz. Orch. 1842, ex Linnea, xvi., 

 Littlb. 234. 



TROPICAL HIMALAYA, alt. 1-3000 ft., from Garwhal to Upper Assam, the 

 KHASIA and NAGA HILLS, and PEGU. NILGHIEI HILLS and MALABAR GHATS, , 

 Wight. CEYLON, ascending to 4000 ft. DISTRIB. Java, China. 



Root of tlii -k tufted fibres. Stem 10-30 in., usually many-leaved. Leaves 

 4-8 b) 12 in., thick, petiole very stout. Spike 3-8 in. ; rachis glabrous or pube- 

 scent; bracts equalling the subglobose whitish fragrant flowers, which are in. 

 diam. ; sepals broadly ovate, obtuse, 1-nerved; petals spathulate ; lip not longer 

 than tie column ; pollinia broadly pyriform, sessile on the gland. Capsule ^ in. 

 fusiforxi. 



2. -. rubens, Blume Orchid. Archip. Ind. t. 9 C, D ; spike rather 

 lax-fid, lip saccate beaked densely clothed within with soft tubercles or 

 short stsB, column long slender, anther lanceolate, pollinia powdery nar- 

 rowed iito one slender caudicle. 



PEB/K; upper part of the Batang Padang Valley, alt. 2000 ft., Wray. 

 DISTRIE Java, Philippines. 



Habi and foliage of G. procera, but leaves obliquely elliptic-lanceolate and petiole 

 more sleider. Scape sheathed; spike 4-5 in. ; rachis bracts and buds pubescent; 

 bracts la,ceolate, longer than the brownish-pink flowers ; sepals in. long, 1-3- 

 nerved, da-sal oblong-lanceolate, lateral broader below, not covering the sac of the 

 lip, whichis shorter than the column ; column keeled in front ; rostellar arms large, 

 erect, stigia at their base very large orbicular ; caudicles of pollinia as long as the 

 clavate bdy. A remarkable plant, with the exposed sac of the lip of CystorcMs, 

 but all othr characters of Goody era except the very long column. 



3. Cr. fumata, Thwaites JEnum. 314 ; spike rather lax.-fld., lip con- 

 cave rhorboidly orbicular caudate-acuminate glandular within column 

 clavate, a ther ovate subacute. 



CEYLON in the Central Province, rare, Thwaites. 



Three fefc high and very stout. Leaves many, 6-10 by 3-4 in., obliquely elliptic- 

 lanceolate ; etiole 2-4 in., stout. Scape stout and spike glandular-pubescent; 

 bracts shortc than or equalling the greenish-red flowers, lower sometimes elongate; 

 sepals 5 in long, ovate, acute, 1-nerved ; petals dimidiate lanceolate, acuminate, 

 falcate ; lip ,s broad as lohg, many-nerved, abruptly contracted into a revolute 

 ligulate tail; column almost funnel-shaped, rostellar beaks short. 



** Stemtt-8 in., rarely more. Leaves 1-2 in., usually rosulate, ovate- 

 cordate or la.ceolate. 



f Lip smoth channelled or lamellate within, but with no hairs or soft 

 seta. 



4. G. repns, Brown in Hort. Kew, Ed. 2, v. 198 ; leaves ovate acute 

 shortly petioli, spike secuud pubescent, bracts equalling or exceeding the 

 flowers, lip vutricose shortly beaked channelled within, column very 

 short ovate, 'dndl. Gen. & !8p. Orchid. 492 ; in Journ. Linn. S t oc. i. 183 ; 

 Eeichb. Ic. Fl.^erm. xiii. t, 482 ; Ledeb. Fl. Ross. iv. 86 ; Boiss. Fl. Orient. 



