2841 ORCHIDS OF THE SIKKIM.HIMALAYA. 
Prate 376.—Goodyera secundiflora, Lindl. А plant, of natural size. Fig 1 гасі, ovary and flower, 
2 apex of ovary, column with . anther іл situ, and lip, side view, 3 the petals, 4 the lip, seen frem 
abore, 5 apex of ovary and the front of the column, showing the rostellum and stigma, 6 anther, 
7 pollinia; ай enlarged. 
9. GOODYERA FUMATA, Thwaites Enum. Pl. Ceyl., 314. 
Whole plant about 3 to 4 feet high. Stem stout, `5 in. thick, glabrous. Leaves 
obliquely oblong-elliptic, tapering to the acuminate apex id the long narrow base, 6 to 
10 in. long and 1°75 to 4 in. broad; the petiole 1-25 to 2 in. long, sheathing widely in 
its lower part. Peduncle slender, glandular-pubescent. Raceme 8 to 10 in. long, its rachis 
and the bracts and ovaries glandular-pubescent, rather densely-flowered. Flowers °5 in. 
long; floral bract linear-lanceolate, acuminate, one-third to one-half as long as the cylin- 
dric twisted ovary. Sepals unequal, pubescent outside; the dorsal ovate, acute; the lateral 
pair rather narrower and with reflexed apices, wide-spreading. Petals linear-oblanceolate, 
acute, entire, shorter and much narrower than the sepals, adpressed to the dorsal sepal. 
Lip with an elongate saccate base (rhomboidal when spread out), abruptly contracted 
into the linear revolute apical lobe; the interior of the sac setose. Column long, clavate, 
the rostellum rather short. Anther depressed, shortly beaked; pollinia mn sessile on 
the minute quadrate gland. Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. VI, 111. 
Sikkim, at Rungbee, elevation 6,000 feet; in flower during March; Pantling No. 467; 
a rare plant. Ceylon; Thwaites. 
The. colour of the sepals and petals is pale green, and that of the lip and column 
pale brown. 
PLATE 377.—Goodyera fumata, Thwaites. Fig. 1 a flower, 2 уой, view of floral bract, stalked 
ovary, column with anther in situ, and lip, 3 the lip with its apex flattened out, 4 column with the 
anther im situ and the stigma, 5 an empty anther, 6 pollinia; ай enlarged. 
10. QGoOoDYERA GRANDIS, new species. 
Height of the whole plant 15 to 20 inches, the séem forming three-fourths of 
the whole, leafy below, bracteate above. Leaves obliquely elliptic, sub-acute, 3-nerved, 
З to 4 in. long and 1:5 to 2 in. broad; petiole channelled, much dilated and tubular at 
the base, 2 to 2°5 in. long; bracts in the upper part of the stem about three, unequal, 
lanceolate, acuminate, tubular at the base, 1 to 1:35 in. long. Peduncle about 2:5 in. long, 
pubescent. Raceme rather densely-flowered, twice as long as the peduncle. Flowers 27 
in. across; floral bract lanceolate, longer than the sessile pubescent ovary, glabrous but 
with doas margins. Sepals unequal, thinly pubescent externally; the dorsal oblong- 
elliptic, blunt, somewhat fleshy, forming a hood with the spathulate petals; lateral 
sepals broadly lanceolate, wide-spreading. ip fleshy, shorter than the column and 
adnate to its base, sub-globosely saccate, setose within; the apical lobe small, narrowly 
ovate, reflexed and adpressed to the under side of the sac. Column with a pointed 
apex and with a clavate callus extending from the stigma to the base of the lip. Anther 
dorsal, 2-celled; pollinia four, clavate, united in pairs to a pc narrowly elliptie g'and. 
Hylophila ? lichen; King and Pantling MSS. 
|  . ВКК, at Rumtek in the valley of the Teesta, at an elevation of 4,000 feet; 
in flower during = Pantling No. 460, 
