280 ORCHIDS OF. THE SIKKIM-HIMALAYA. 
2. GOODYERA FUSCA, Lindl. in Wall. Cat., 7395; Hook. fil Ic. Plantar. 
t. 2181. 
Whole plant 9 to 12 in. high. Stem short, glabrous, with the leaves clustered near 
the base and bearing upwards large oblong acute bracts ‘75 to 1 in. long. Leaves thick, 
ovate, sub-acute, 5-nerved, the veins anastomosing, the edges sub-revolute; length of blade 
1 to І5 in.; the petiole about one-third shorter, broad, sheathing widely at the base. 
Peduncle longer than the stem, pubescent. Raceme many-flowered, not secund, the rachis 
bracts and ovaries pubescent; floral bract ovate-oblong, sub-acute, longer than the ovary. 
Sepals sub-equal, oblong, sub-acute, connivent. Petals linear-oblong, falcate, sub-acute. 
Lip as long as the sepals, with a deep sub-globose sac at the base, exserted beyond the 
bases of the sepals, smooth within, suddenly contracted in front into the linear beaked 
dedexed apical lobe.. Column very short; the stigma broad, orbicular, convex. Anther 
convex, shortly apiculate but not beaked; pollinia broadly ovoid, sessile on the orbicular 
gland. Hook. fil Fl. Br. Ind. VI, 112. Aetheria fusca, Lindl. Gen. and Spec. Orch. 491; 
in Journ. Linn. Soc. I, 184. Cystorchis fusca, Benth. in Benth. and Hook. fil Gen. 
Plantar. III, 599. 
Sikkim, the Lachong valley, at an elevation of about 19,000 feet; in flower during 
August; Pantling No. 411. Gharwal; Duthie. 
The flowers are white, the apex of the p being green and its sae flushed with 
pinkish-yellow. 
PLATE 371. —Goodyera fusca, Lindl. A plant, of natural size. Fig. 1 ovary, floral bract and flower, 
2 apex of ovary, column with anther іл situ, and lip, in profile, 8 the petals, 4 lip, 5 front view of apex 
of ovary and EA showing the polliniar gland (pg) and stigma (з), 6 empty anther, 7 pollinia; 
ай enlarged. 
3. Goopyera VITTATA, Benth. ex Hook, fil Fl. Br. Ind. VI, 113. 
Height of whole plant 4 to 8 in., everywhere glabrous or nearly so. Siem stout, 
enveloped in the long tubular leaf-sheaths, Leaves rather thick, ovate-lanceolate, acute, 
1 to 2 in. long and :6 to 9 in. broad; petiole “6 to °8 in. long, consisting mostly 
of sheath. Peduncle only 1 to 155 in. long, bearing several narrowly lanceolate acumi- 
nate imbricate bracts. Raceme 2 to 3 in. long, secund, crowded, usually glabrous, 
‘sometimes sparsely hairy. Flowers "95 in. long, horizontal; floral bract lanceolate, 
acuminate, slightly longer than the ovary. Sepals sub-equal, oblong-ovate, acute. 
Petals narrowly oblong-ovate, cohering by their inner edges for half their length. . Lip 
longer than the sepals, with an elongate вас at the base setose inside, tapering to 
the .oblong-lanceolate sub-acute recurved bilamellate apical lobe. . Column short, stout. 
Anther with its beak acuminate and upturned; pollinia stoutly clavate, conjoined, tapering 
‘to a pseudo-caudicle and attached to an elongate gland; rostellum long, erect. Stigma 
large. Hook. fil Ic. Plantar., t. 2185; Hook. fil in Ann. Bot. Gard. Cale. 61, t. 92. 
Georchis vittata, Lindl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. I, 184. | : | 
' Sikkim, at elevations of 6,000 to 10,000 feet; Hooker, deron. Lachong Valley, 
elevation 7,000 feet; in flower from July to September; Pantling No. 410. 
The flowers are pink, a colour which passes into white at the bases of the sepals 
.and petals. 'The leaves on the upper surface are green with a broad silvery band along 
the midrib; on the lower surface they are more or less suffused with purple. 
