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of connivent lateral sepals, and a clawed instead of sessile 

 lip, the limb of which is bilobed. It has the general habit of 

 the Ancectochiloid group, and produces its erect spikes of 

 white flowers very freely. There are some three or four 

 species, which are natives of China, Cochin China, and the 

 Malayan Archipelago. 



Culture. — A useful stove plant when grown in five or six-inch 

 pots, several plants being put into a pot so as to make up a good 

 specimen. We grow many of them in this way for blooming 

 during the winter months, placing about six plants in a pot. 

 They should be grown vigorously so as to ensure an abun- 

 dance of bloom. In other respects the treatment noted for 

 Goodyera will suit them. Even without any flowers, the 

 plants themselves are by no means unattractive. See also 

 under AncectocJiilus. 



H. discolor, Lindley. — A very handsome and free-blooming 

 dwarf Orchid of the variegated foliage group. It grows 

 about ten inches high, and has deep purple fleshy stems, 

 clothed with ovate leaves of a beautiful dark velvety green, 

 purplish red beneath, and having a white bar in the centre 

 through their entire length. The flowers are white, with a 

 little yellow in the centre, and are produced in winter, lasting 

 a long time in perfection. — Hong Kong. 



'ElG.—Lodd. Bot. Cab., t. 143 ; Bot, Reg., t. 271 ; Bot. Mag., t. 2055. 

 Syn. — Goodyera discolor. 



H. discolor DaVSOniana, Bchb. f. — A very ornamental- 

 leaved variety, which was at first distributed as an Ancecto- 

 chiliis. The leaves are large, ovate, stalked, blackish bronzy 

 green on the upper side, and very glossy, with about seven 

 bold lines of a beautiful golden coppery hue traversing them 

 from base to apex, and connected by smaller reticulations of 

 the same colour ; the under side is of a uniform dull purple. 

 The flowers, which are white, are freely produced, and 

 become useful for bouquet-making. — Malay Islands. 



YlG.—Fl. des Serres, t. 1830. 



Syn. — Anecochilus Dawsonianus; Anosctochilus Dawsonianus; Goodyera 

 Daivsoniana. 



