282 | ORCHIDS OF THE SIKKIM-HIMALAYA. 
The sepals are pinkish or orange-coloured externally with pale edges, and the petals 
are pale pink. The sac of the lip is yellow and its apical lobe is orange and white, 
the column being white and the anther yellow. The floral bracts and leaves are green, 
the latter with three silver lines. | 
Prate 374.—Goodyera foliosa, Benth. A plant, of natural size. Fig. 1 bract, ovary and flower, 
2 apex of ovary, column with anther ін situ, and lip, i» profile, З lip, 4 the petals, 6 view of the back 
of the column, showing the anther іп sifu, 5 front of the same, showing the rostellum and stigma, 
7 pollinia; ай enlarged. 
6. GooprERA procera, Hook. Exot. Flora, t. 39. 
Whole plant 10 to 30 in. high. Stem glabrous, stout, enveloped in the wide lax 
sheaths of leaves or of fallen leaves. Leaves on long petioles, narrowly elliptic or ovate- 
elliptic, tapering to each end, acute or acuminate; the petiole stout, broadly sheathing 
in its lower half; length of blade 3 to 6 in., breadth -75 to 175 in; petiole 1:5 to 
3 in.  Peduncle shorter than the stem, glabrous below, pubescent above, bearing several 
lanceolate acuminate bracts. Raceme with a pubescent rachis 3 to 8 in. long, many- 
and densely-flowered. Flowers sub-globose, :2 in. in diam. across the tips of the pieces of 
the perianth; floral bract ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, pubescent at the edges, equalling - 
the glabrous ovary in length. Sepals sub-equal, broadly ovate, obtuse, sub-connivent, 
glabrous. Petals cuneately obovate, clawed. Lip slightly longer than the sepals, with 
.8 large saceate base and a small decurved entire triangular acute apical lobe;. the 
interior of the basal sac with two rows of long teeth on the sides and an oblong callus 
at the apex of each row. Column very short, with a transverse depression below the 
broad anticous stigma. Ал ег broadly pyriform, obtuse; pollinia clavate-eylindrie, sessile 
on the small oblong gland. Lindl. Gen. and Spec. Orch. 493; in Journ. Linn. Soe. I, 
183; Don Prod. Fl. Nep., 28; Wight Ic. t. 1729; Hook. fil Fl. Br. Ind. VI, 111. 6. 
carnea, А. Rich. in Ann. Se. Nat. ser. 2, XV, 80. Сіолізассиз lanceolatus, Breda Orch. 
Kuhl et Hassk., t. 1. Cordylestylis foliosa, Falconer i in Hook. J ourn. Bot. IV с» Тә. 
Neottia procera, Ker in Bot. Reg., t. 639. 
. Sikkim, common at elevations of 1,000 to 4,000 feet; Ран: No. 07; in flowei 
in May. Eastward to Bhotan and ойу to Nepal Assam, Sylhet, Khasia and 
Naga Hills, Nilgiri Hills and Western Ghats, Ceylon.  Distrib—Java, China. | 
: The flowers are white, faintly tinged with green, and the bracts | are green. 
PLATE 378.—Goodyera procera, Huck. Outline of an entire aint, much reduced in size. Leaf and 
inflorescence, of natural size. Fig. 1 bract, ovary and flower, 2 apex of ovary, column with anther in 
"i and lip, side view, 9 the petals, 4 interior of the sae of the lip to show the teeth and calli, 
5 front view of the apex of the ovary n of the column, showing the and anther, 6 anther, 
Folie; all enlarged. ЖОҒ 3 
7. боор, HISPIDA, Lindl. in J oum. Linn. Soc. 1, 183. 
` Whole plant 4 to 6 in. 1. high. Stem enveloped in the хі, Zinn elliptic- | 
lanceolate, acute, somewhat oblique, especially at the base; length 1 to 1:5 in., breadth 
74 to "65 in.; petiole none; sheath about “4 in., very broad,  Peduncle short, pubescent 
and bearing several short pubescent bracts with broad convolute bases. and acuminate 
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