328 | ORCHIDS OF THE SIKKIM-HIMALAYA. 
“Lindley has in Herb. Linn. бос, named the whole of 7066A. (both gatherings) and В as well, 
Peristylus goodyeroides with his own hand. But he had been more careful with the other specimens; for, 
on Sir William Hooker's (now Herb. Kew.) example of 7066A from Puspulnath, he wrote only Peristylus; 
and on a specimen of the same thing which he got from Wallich, but which is noé numbered, he again 
has written only Peristylus. It is only on his own example of Wall. Cat. 7066A, (which is the Toka 
plant, H. sacculata, Wall), that Lindley has written Peristylus goodyerotdes in full; and the only other 
place where he has done so (except in Herb. Linn. Soc., which he has clearly examined carelessly and 
rapidly) is on the original drawing of Royle Ill. 87, fig. 2. 
“But at this point our troubles recommence. We have to decide whether Peristylus goodyerotdes, 
Lindley, is the same as Habenaria goodyeroides, Don (Prodromus Flore Nepalensis, 25). Don published 
this book from the collections of Buchanan-Hamilton and of Wallich in the Herbarium of Mr. Lambert. 
But these plants of Wallich’s did not form any part of the Wallichian Herbarium which was distributed 
with numbers; they were in fact sent direct by Dr. Wallich to Mr. Lambert years before Dr. Wallich 
went home with his big Herbarium. When Mr. Lambert died, his collections were sold. I have seen | 
the auctioneer's list. Most of his fine things from South America, Australia, ete., fetched high prices; 
some were bought for the British Museum, some for Sir W. Hooker, some for Paris, some for Berlin, 
etc, ete. But all the bundles ‘Nepal Plants—Wallich’ went cheap, (2/6, 5/, 6/6 рег lot and so оп). 
Not one of the great botanists wanted them; and every single bundle was bought by Mr. Pamplin, 
the book-seller, for practically the merest trifle. Yet the botanists made a great blunder, for these very 
bundles contained all the types of Mr. David Don’s new species of the Prodromus Flore Nepalensis. 
Mr. Lambert's sale took place affer the distribution of Dr. Wallich’s great herbarium, and no doubt 
everybody concerned thought he already possessed everything that could be in Lambert’s bundles, and 
that all the names would be the same as on the distributed sheets. As to the first idea, no doubt they 
were right; as to the second, the less said the better. 
“Mr. Pamplin found his speculation a mistake; cheaply as he bought the plants, no one ever wanted 
to purchase them; and when he gave up business 30 years ago, his Nepalese specimens were, I understand, 
thrown aside as rubbish. Anyhow I cannot trace them; and there is no specimen of Habenaria goodycroides 
named by Don either at Kew, the British Museum, in the Herbarium Drake at Paris, or Herbarium De 
Candolle at Geneva—four of the most likely places to find one. 
* After the break-up of Mr. Lambert’s collection, Mr. Don was Keeper of the Linnman Society's 
Herbarium, and he had gone over the whole of Wallich’s Herbarium, and named with his own hand the 
specimens there of his Prodromus species; but, just as luck would have it, not the orchids; these he 
naturally and properly left entirely to Professor Lindley. 
“Tf Don had only described one Hubenaria of the section Peristylus, it would have been an edsy 
matter for us. But he described two. And so it just comes to this: Don saw that Wallich’s first 
impression was right, that the Toka gathering and the Puspulnath one were distinct, and he describes 
them as different species accordingly. ; 
“Now we know that Wallich collected only two forms of Peris/ylus in Nepal, and that these two 
are distributed together under 7066А; we may, therefore, satisfactorily conclude that these two are just 
the ones that Don deals with. 
“Of their differences we can only say that broadly his H. goodyeroides is bigger than his H. affnis, 
and that the colour of the flowers of his H. goodyeroides is like that of H. allida, viz., ‘green.’ There 
is no doubt, therefore, that it is with the plant described by Sir Joseph Hooker (excluding some of the 
a m dm x ene grees best. The smaller plant which is К. and P's. No. 453 becomes then 
( we c мы that it is equal to H. sacculata, Wall. Cat, 7066A., Toka, and equal to Peristylus 
goodyeroides ‘of Royle) Habenaria affinis, Don.” | 
қ м” 430 —Hal maria good yeroides, Don А plant, of natural sise. | Fig. 4 ovary and flower, 
: a se bes ne of the р attached, showing the anthers with the glands of their pollinis (р 2), 
Se (с), the opening 6 into the spur (ғ), and the stigmas (з), 3 lip, 4 bract, ovary, colums | 
=d spur of lip, in profile, 5 section of spur, 6 pollinia; all enlarged. а o | 
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