GOODYERE. 165 
Lip setose within. 
Leaves more or less distant on the stem, not cordate at 
the base. 
Stem elongate, floral bracts much exceeding the 
riage ری‎ vuU Ux sU I V $ Mlle 
Stem short, floral bracts shorter than the very 
large secund flowers . 254% 2. G. biflora 
Leaves subradical, cordate at the base . . . . . . 6. G. cordata. 
1. GoopvERA PROCERA Hook. Exot. Flora +. 39. 
Stem 2'9 to 755 dm., glabrous, enveloped іп the wide lax leaf-sheaths. Leaves many, 
long-petioled ; petiole 3*5 to 75 cm. long, stout and with a broadly sheathing base; blade 
7:5 to 15 cm. long, elliptic or ovate-elliptic, tapering at each end, acute or acuminate, 
Peduncle bearing many lanceolate acuminate bracts, glabrous below, pubescent above, 
spike 1:5 to 20 em. long, many and densely flowered, the rachis pubescent. , Flowers 
minute, subglobose, white tinged with green; floral bract ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, 
pubescent at the edges, equalling the glabrous ovary. Sepals subequal, broadly ovate, 
obtuse, sub-connivent, glabrous. Petals cuneately obovate, clawed. Lip a little longer 
than the sepals, with a large saccate base; its upex decurved, triangular, acute, entire ; 
interior of basal sac with two rows of long sete 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. Anther broadly pyriform. obtuse; pollinia clavate-cylindrie, sessile on 
the small oblong gland. Lindl. Gen. and Sp. Orch. 493; in Journ. Linn. Soc, i, 183; 
Royle Ill. 368; Don Prod. Fl. Nep. 28; Wight Ic. 1729; Hook. f. Fl. Вт, Ind. vi, 
111, King & Pantling in Ann. R. Bot. Gard. Calc. viii, 282, t. 378; Rolfe in 
Journ. Linn. Soc. xxxvi, 45. 6. carnea A, Rich. in Ann, Se. Nat. ser. 2, xv, 80, 
Cionisaccus lanceolatus Breda Orch. Kuhl. et Hassk. t. 1. Cordylestylis foliosa Fale, in 
Hook. Journ. Bot. iv (1842), 75. Neottia procera Кет. in Bot. Reg. t. 639. 
Dehra Dun, Mackinnon’s collector; in the Sub-Himalayan tract of the Bahraich 
District іп N. Oudh, Duthie’s collector No. 23862; Outer hills of Garhwál and Kumaon 
up to 8,000 feet. Flowers during May. It extends eastwards to Nepal, Sikkim, Bhutan, 
Assam, Sylhet and to the Khasia and Naga Hills; southwards it is found in Central 
and 8. India; it occurs also in China, Honkong and Java. 
2. GOODYERA REPENS В. Brown in Ait. Hort. Kew, ed. 2, v, 198, 
An evergreen stoloniferous herb, 1 to 2 dm, high. Stem glabrous, leafy below 
and braeteate above. Leaves elliptic ог ovate-elliptic, subacute, petioles sheathing in 
the lower half, blade 1:2 to 25 сш. long, green reticulated with white. Bracts 
of upper part of stem and on the peduncle linear, convolute. Raceme 2:5 to 5 cm. 
long, subsecund, its rachis and the bracts and ovaries sparsely pubescent or nearly 
glabrous. Flowers globular, 95 mm. across, white flushed with brownish-pink; i floral 
bract linear-lanceolate, longer than the ovary. Sepals subequal, ovate, acute, connivent. 
Petals about as long as the sepals, obliquely cuneate—oblong, falcately acute at the 
apex, the edges slightly erose-dentate. Zip about as long as the sepals, saccate at 
the base, apical lobe short, ovate, subacute, concave, the edges somewhat undulate; 
