Goodyera. } ORCHIDACEA. ~ 1027 
or acuminate, the cells contiguous; pollinia 2, granular or sectile, 
narrow-clavate or cylindric, grooved or 2-fid, adnate by a single, 
long, slender caudicle to a narrow gland. Capsule cylindric- 
clavate. 
2101. Troprpra curcuticomwes Lindl. ; F. B. I. vi. 93. 
Chittagon 
A ele herb, stem 1-2 feet high, 
922, Corymbis Thouars. 
Terrestrial, rigid, erect herbs, with tall, leafy stems and fibrous 
roots; leaves broad, sheathing, plicate. Sepals narrow. Petals 
like sepals, and at first connate with them in a tube, with the tips 
of all five alone free, ultimately all quite free and spreading; lip 
parallel to column and adnate to its base, narrowly linear, chan- 
nelled; side-lobes obsolete, apex abruptly dilated and dewitevad. 
Column long, but not equalling the pein straight, terete, with 
a clavate, 2-auriculate tip and a 2-fid rostellum; stigma single, 
anticous, 2-lobe Anther dorsal, (aida 2-celled, with an 
acuminate lip; pollini a long, narrow, deeply grooved, tapering 
Sed to the thin caudicle; gland peltate. Capsule linear or 
2102, betas VERATRIFOLIA BI.; F. B. I. vi. 91. 
Chittagong. 
A rigid terrestrial herb, stem 4 feet high. 
923. Goodyera R. Br. 
Terrestrial, leafy herbs, stem decumbent below; leaves us sually 
rather thick, with wide sheaths, and often also distinct petioles. 
Flowers small, numerous, in terminal, sometimes secund, spikes 
or racemes, Sepals subequal, often pubescent outside; lateral 
pair free, subconnivent or spreading; dorsal concave. Petals like 
dorsal sepal, and forming with it a hood over the column; lip 
nate to base of column, entire, saccate or cymbiform at the 
base; apical lobe small, usually acute or decurved ; basal sac with 
sete, calli or ridges inside, rarely smooth. Column short, with 
Projecting rostellum ; stigma anticous, undivided. Anther usually 
pyriform, with a long, erect beak; pollinia 2, clavate, sessile on a 
large or small gland, 
2103. Goopyera procera Hook.; F. B. I. vi. 111. 
Chittagong, at Demagri; Chota Nagpur. 
A tall herb, 10-80 in, high, very leafy below. 
