114 CXLVIII. OBCHIDE^E. (J. D. Hooker.) \_Goodyera. 



the flowers, lip saccate long-beaked setose within, beak 2-lamellate on 

 the disk. Hook.f. Ic Plant. ined. Georchis vittata, Lindl. in Journ. Linn. 

 Soc. i. 184. 



SIKKIM HIMALAYA, alt. 6-9000 ft., J. D. H. 



Stout, 4-6 in. high, leafy nearly up to the spike. Leaves 1^-3 in., fleshy, dark 

 green above, purplish beneath. Splice 2-3 in.; flowers subsecund ; sepals 3-nerved, 

 white with pink tips, lateral ovate acuminate, dorsal oblong-lanceolate ; petals oblan- 

 ceolate, falcate, 3-nerved; lip 7-nerved, acuminate; columnar arms elongate, sub- 

 ulate; anther ovate-lanceolate; pollinia with short caudicles and a long gland. 

 The only perfectly glabrous Indian species of this group. 



13. Gr. hispida, Lindl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. i. 183 ; leaves subsessile 

 ovate-lanceolate acuminate, spike and flowers hispidly glandular, bracts 

 shorter than the small flowers, lip saccate shortly obtusely beaked sparsely 

 setose within. Hook. f. Ic. Plant, ined. 



KHASIA HILLS, at Churra, alt. 4000 ft., /. D. H. 8f T. T. 



Described from a solitary specimen, by Lindley, who observes its similarity to G. 

 repens, except in the larger leaves, but who does not appear to have examined the 

 lip, which differs from that of repens in the setose sac. It is nearer G. secundiflora. 

 Whole plant only 5 in. high. Leaves 2 in., whole-coloured, not reticulate; spike 

 twisted; flowers white; sepals 1-nerved, lateral in. long, o vate- oblong, obtuse ; 

 petals oblong-lanceolate, nearly straight, 1-nerved ; columnar arms subulate ; anther 

 lanceolate ; pollinia narrow, with short caudicles and a large gland. 



14. Gr. cor data, .JBenth. in Herb. Kew ; leaves subradical ovate- 

 cordate, spike puberulous few and lax-fid., bracts shorter than or equalling 

 the large suberect flowers, lip rhomboid-ovate obtuse many -nerved setose 

 at the subsaccate base within. HooJc.f. Ic. Plant, ined. Georchis cordata, 

 Lindl. Gen. &f Sp. Orchid. 496 (excl. habitat] ; Reichb. f. in Gard. Chron. 

 1879, ii. 520. 



KHASIA HILLS, alt. 3-4000 ft. J. D. H. fy T. T. UPPEE ASSAM; in the NAGA 

 HILLS, Prain. ? PEBAK, ScortecUni. 



Kather slender, 6-12 in. high. Leaves l|-2 in., variable in depth of basal sinus, 

 acute; petiole %-% in., slender. Spike 4-8-fld. ; flowers pubescent ; sepals f in. long, 

 3-nerved, subcqual, ovate-lanceolate, obtuse ; petals dimidiute-obovate, 2-3-nerved; 

 column stout, with projecting cheeks; rostellar arms and anther very long and 

 slender ; pollinia slender, with long slender connate caudicles. The largest flowered 

 Indian species, except G. biflora. In the Perak specimen the front row of seta3 within 

 the lip are clavellate. 



15. G-. biflora, Hook. f. Ic. Plant, ined. ; stem short stout leafy, leaves 

 ovate, spike 2-4 fld. pubescent, bracts slender shorter than the very large 

 secund flowers, sepals narrow, 3-nerved lateral cuneate at the base, lip sac- 

 cate at the base with a long recurved beak, sac setose within. Georchis 

 biflora, Lindl. in Wall. Cat. 7379 ; Gen. Sf Sp. Orchid. 496. 



TEMPERATE WESTEEN HIMALAYA, alt. 4-6000 ft. Nepal, Wallich-, Garwhal, 

 Edgeworth ; Simla, Gamble. 



Stem 2-3 in., leafy. Leaves 1-2 in., obtuse or subacute, petiole -^ in. Raceme 

 hardly exceeding the leaves, rachis stout ; bracts 1 in. ; sepals 1 in., dorsal narrowly 

 lanceolate recurved, lateral nearly straight; petals linear, falcate, 3-nerved; lip 

 with a setosely 5-nerved base, beak twice as long as the sac, margins membranous 

 waved ; column concave in front, rostellar arms and anther very long and slender. 

 Capsule nearly 1 in. long. 



94. HETJERXA, 



uETHERIA, Endl. 



Characters of G-oodyera, but lip usually superior, and adnate to the 



