168 GOODYEREX. 
nerves impressed on the upper surface; petiole dilated, the free portion about half the 
length of the blade. Spike puberulous, 4- to 6-flowered, the lower portion bearing a 
pale narrow sheathing cuspidate bract. Flowers suberect, about 2:4 cm. long, green 
tinged with brownish-yellow or red; flowering bract overtopping the buds, lanceolate, 
acuminate, edges papillose. Sepals fleshy, boat-shaped, and with cucullate tips; the 
dorsal one erect, 13 mm. long, lanceolate and gradually tapering to the blunt apex, 
3-nerved ; the lateral pair deflexed, a little shorter than the dorsal, 5-nerved. Petals 
thin, equalling and appressed to the dorsal sepal, dimidiate-lanceolate, acute, 3-nerved, 
Lip about as long as the dorsal sepal, rhomboid-ovate, many-nerved, setose on the 
broad sub-saccate base; terminal lobe reflexed, triangular, acute. Column stout, with 
projecting cheeks. Arms of rostellum and anther long and slender. Pollinia elongate. 
tapering below into the long slender connate caudicles; gland linear adnate to the 
caudicles. Hook. Ic. Pl. 2187. Georchis cordata Lindl. Gen. & Sp. 496 (excl. habitat); 
Reichb, f. in Gard, Chron. 1879, u, 520. 
Near Mussoorie on wooded slopes facing the north at about 6,000 feet, Mackin- 
non’s collector No, 25409. Flowers in September. Previously known only from the 
Khasia and Naga Hills, and in Perak, 
Puare 126. Goodyera cordata Benth. А plant,—of natural size. Fig. 1, single 
flower; 2, ditto, with the sepals and petals removed; 3, lip; 4 column, showing the 
rostellum and stigma; 5, back view of ditto, showing the anther in situ; 6, pollinia; 
all enlarged. 
38. Zeuxine Lindl. 
Terrestrial herbs with succulent glabrous stems, decumbent at the base. Flowers 
small, in racemes or spikes. Sepals subequal, the dorsal one concave and forming 
a hood with the petals, the lateral pair free. Lip adnate to the base of the 
column, eymbiform or saccate; apical lobe shortly clawed or sessile, entire 2-lobed 
or with narrow decurved lobules, the sac at the base with calli or lamin inside. 
Column very short, anterior surface with lamellar or conical processes. Stigmas 2, 
lateral, distant, rarely united. Anther membranous, its cells contiguous; pollinia, 
pyriform, attached by an oblong gland to the erect rostellum.—Species about 15, in 
Tropical Asia and Africa. 
ZEUXINE SULCATA Lindl. Gen. and Sp. Orch, 485. 
Whole plant 5 to 25 cm. high. Stem and peduncle glabrous. Leaves 2 to 7 
ош. long, linear, acuminate, sessile оп the hyaline truncate sheaths, gradually passing 
into the linear bracts higher up. Raceme 1:5 to 5 cm. long, densely flowered, 
glabrous; floral ғас? ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, much longer than the ovary. Flowers 
about 1 cm. long, white or pink, Sepals unequal; the dorsal one ovate, concave; 
the lateral pair obliquely lanceolate, connivent. Petals faleately oblong, obtuse, 
forming with the dorsal sepal a hood over the column. Tap yellow, as long as the 
sepals, cymbiform and saccate at the base, bearing inside the sac two inward-pointing 
teeth and two narrow lamelle uniting at the mid rib; terminal lobe short, sub- 
quadrate entire or bifid. Column very short, with two wings at its apex covering 
