Thecostele.] ORCHIDACE A. 1017 
906. Geodorum Jacks. 
Terrestrial herbs, with underground, Reap as rhizomes ; 
leaves elliptic, plicate, their sheaths for ing a pseudo-stem. 
Flowers rather crowded and narrow, randall a decurved, corym- 
bose raceme on a stout, erect, sheathed scape from the base of the 
pseudo-stem. Sepals equal, oblong, subacute, erect. Petals as 
long as the sepals, but broader and blunt; lip sessile on the base 
of the column, broadly ventricose at the callus-bearing base ; 
lateral lobes 0, apical broad, rounded, 2-fid or emarginate. Column 
less than half the length of the lip. Anther broad, 2-celled ; 
pollinia 2, broadly and dimidiately ovoid, attached by a tapering, 
slender caudicle to a small orbicular gland. 
Lip not saccate, white with pink lines or faintly uniformly flushed with 
pink; disk not yellow lilatatum 
Lip deeply saccate, more or less streaked with purple or red ; dick yellow 
citrinum. 
2065. Groporum DILATATUM R, Br; FB. 1. vi. 17). G.gpue 
pureum ps B. . 16 partly. Limodorum recurvum 
469. 
Chota Nagpur; Behar; W. Bengal; C. Bengal. 
A terrestrial herb. ‘ : 
2066. Groporum crrrinum Jacks. ; F, B.L. vi..17. 
Chittagong. 
A terrestrial herb. 
907. Thecostele Reichb. f. 
Epiphytic, pseudobulbous herbs ; leaf solitary, short-petioled on 
each pseudobul Flowers racemed, on slender basal scapes. 
Sepals subequal, broad. Petals narrower than sepals; me con- 
nate with the foot of the column, 3-lobed, its base for 
the foot a ventricose tube, perforate in front; side-lobes "call, 
erect; mid-lobe entire or 3-lobulate, velvet ety. Colwmmn slender, 
arched, with incurved, apical wings. Anther 2-celled; pollinia 2, 
subglobose, spore stipitate on a scale-like gland. 
2067. Tuxcostexe atara Par. & Reichb. f. 1. Zollingeri F. B. I. 
Vi. mrs pooner alatum F, I. iii. 459. 
Chittagong. 
A pseudobulbous epiphyte. 
