GOODYERA. 167 
many, pink or tiuged with orange, much shorter than the narrowly lanceolate, 
acuminate, 3-nerved floral bracts. Sepals 6 to 10 mm. long, connivent, subequal, 
ovate-oblong, subacute, connate at the base. Petals very obliquely rhomboid, acute 
clawed, Jip as long as the sepals, saccate at the base and tapering into the subacute 
orange and white apical lobe, sac hispid within. Column and rostellum rather long, 
Anther erect, oblanceolate; pollinia narrowly clavate, grooved, united below and sessile 
on a long oblanceolate gland. Stigma concave, Hook, f. in Ann, Bot. Gard. Calc. 
v, 61, t. 91. Georchis foliosa Lindl. Сеп. and Sp. Orch. 496. Goodyera sp. Griffith. 
Itin. Notes 36, No. 591. Notul. iii, 396, Хо. 11; Ic. РІ. As. 346, f. 1. 
Near Mussoorie, in oak forests on northern slopes, at about 5,500 feet, P. W. 
Mackinnon; in flower during November. Found also in Sikkim, Assam, on the Naga 
and Khasia Hills, and in Burma and Perak. 
5. Goopyera BIFLORA Hook. f. Ic. Pl. 2188. 
Roots thick and cord-like. Stem 5 to 75 cm. long, stout, leafy upwards, usually 
tinged with red, sometimes decumbent and rooting from the nodes. Leaves 9*5 to 5 em 
long, ovate, obtuse. ог subacute, dark bluish-green on the upper surface finely veined with 
white, the lower surface paler and with a tinge of. red; the petiole 6 to 12 mm. long, 
dilated. Spike 2 to 8-flowered, not much longer than the leaves; rachis stout, 
pubescent; floral bract 2°2 cm. long, exceeding the slender pubescent ovary, reddish 
tipped with green, puberulous above. Flowers large, secund, white tinged with 
yellow and pink. Sepals narrowly lanceolate, 3-nerved; the dorsal one 2:5 cm. long, 
recurved at the apex; lateral pair a little shorter than the dorsal, nearly straight, 
connate at the base. Petals linear-lanceolate, faleate, closely applied to the dorsal 
вера]. Lip white tinged with yellow, shorter than the sepals, saccate at the base and 
with a long recurved beak twice as long as the sac; margins membranous, undulate ; 
sac setose within. Column concave in front. Rostellar arms and anther very long 
and slender. Pollinia on long slender connate caudicles; gland linear, nearly half 
as long as the combined caudicles, Capsule 2:5 cm. long. Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. 
vi, 114; Collett Fl. Siml. 496. Georchis biflora Lindl. in Wall. Cat. 7379; Gen. and 
Sp. Orch, 496. 
Song in the Upper Sutlej Valley, Brandis ; Simla Hills at about 6,000 feet, 
Brandis, Gamble No. 4649; between Mussoorie and Simla 4,000 to 5,000 feet, 
Edgeworth; Mussoorie range 6,000 to 7,000 feet, Mackinnon, Duthie Nos. 24164, 
25408. Flowers in August. It has been found also in Nepal by Wallich. 
PrarE 127. Goodyera biflora Hook. f. А plant,—of natural size. Fig. 1, single 
flower; 2, petals; 3, side view of young flower, with sepals and petals removed; 4, 
vertical section of lip; 5, apical portion of lip, spread out; 6, ovary and column, 
showing the anther in situ; 7, rostellum; 8, anther; 9 and 10, pollinia ;—a/ enlarged, 
6. GOODYERA соврлта Benth. ex Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. vi, 114. 
А rather slender plant, 1 to 3 dm. high, sometimes decumbent, quite glabrous 
except the scape and bracts. Roots thick, cord-like. Zeaves four or five, sub-radicai, 
2'5 to 65 em. long, ovate, cordate, acute, rather fleshy, glaucous-green, paler beneath, 
