 HETERIA. 299 
short, with two long fleshy appendages in front, rostellum two-cleft. Stiymas two, lateral. 
Anther erect, its cells short; pollinia two, bipartite, inserted by a short caudicle on an 
oblong gland. iti сай 12, Indian and MEE" ode 
1, Merten Grirritan, Lindl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. I, 188. 
. Whole plant 4 to 7 inches high. Stem succulent, decumbent below, glabrous, bearing 
some scarious sheaths. Leaves withered at flowering time, ovate, sub-acute, the bases 
cuneate; petioles short, expanding into wide hyaline sheaths; length of blade ‘75 to 1 in., 
breadth ‘5 to `6 in. Peduncle as long as the stem but more slender, pubescent, and 
bearing several loose acuminate scarious sheaths more than “5 in. long. Flowers one or 
two at the apex of the peduncle, 75 in. long, ( excluding the pubescent tumid ovary); 
floral bract lanceolate, acuminate, shorter or longer than the ovary. Sepals connate to 
the middle into a tube, pubescent especially towards the base; the free points acute, 
spreading. Petals narrowly oblong, falcate, acute, shorter than the sepals. Lip with 
an elongate concave base slightly saccate underneath its attachment to the column, the sac 
with two parallel rows of short glandular sete within it; apical lobe of the lip orbicular, ` 
its edges coarsely fimbriate. Column elongate, with two linear erect processes equal in 
length to the spathulate arms of the rostellum and covering the gland of the pollinia, 
Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. VI, 105. Goodyera, No. 9, Griff. Notul. III, 393. 
Bhotan, on low hills near the J aldacca river; elevation 4,000 feet; in flower doing 
December; Pantling No. 353. 
Khasia Hills; Lobb, Clarke. Burma, іп Респ; Kurz No. 355; in — a Parish. 
The flowers are pure white throughout. 
PLATE 397.—Cheirostylis Griffithit, Lindl. A plant, of natural sise, Fig. 1 a flower, side view, 2 floral 
bract, ovary, column with anther in situ, lip and stigma (s), seen from the side, З lip, upper surface, 
4 petals, 5 apex of ovary, column with its processes (c p), опе of which is bent down to show its outline, 
gland of pollinia (g) and stigma (s), 6 empty anther, 7 pollinia and gland, side view; all enlarged, - 
85. Heteria, Blume. 
Terrestrial herbs ‘with the characters of Goodyera but the flower everted so that the lip 
is superior. Тір adnate to the column.  $//gmas two, lateral. Species about 13, Indian. 
Sera. RUBENS, Benth. in d бай. ind Hook. fil, Gen. Plantar. III, 603. 
Whole plant 10 to 18 in. high, about half being leaf-bearing stem and glabrous; 
the rest peduncle, puberulous, and bearing а few scattered lanceolate acuminate sheaths 
with a terminal raceme, Leaves ovate to elliptic, somewhat oblique, sub-acute, 3 to 4 5 
in. long and 1:75 to 2 in. broad, 5-nerved. Raceme 3 or 4 in. long, many-flowered, 
its rachis densely glandular-pubescent. Flowers *3 in. long; floral bracé lanceolate, 
acuminate, shorter than the glandular-tomentose cylindric ovary. Sepals broadly ovate. 
Petals hammer-shaped, clawed, gibbous on one side. Jip short, sub-hemispheric, with 
a small transverse, sometimes bifid, terminal lobe and a slightly carunculate callus 
on each side towards the base within. Column very short, with two small: wings iu 
front. Anther ovate-cordate, convex; pollinia clavate, pyriform, longitudinally grooved, 
attached ly the short thin caudicle to the small sub-quad.ate gland, Hook. fil. Fi. 
Axx. Кот. Вот. Garb., Carcutr:, Vor. VIII. 
