1896.] G. King & R, Pantling— Few Orchids from Sikkim. 127 



apex from which radiate glandular-pubescent branching nerves. 

 Column rather long. 



Lachen Valley, elevation about 7,000 feet, in flower in July ; 

 Pantling No. 391. 



A species resembling L. japonica, Bl., which however is a smaller 

 more slender plant with a much more deeply bifid lip. 



ZEUXINE, Lindl. 



Zedsinb pulchra, n. spec. Height of the whole plant about 6 

 inches. Stem glabrous. Leaves 3 or 4, rather crowded, ovate, sub- 

 acute, coriaceous ; the upper surface blackish-purple, the midrib white ; 

 the petiole short, broad and sheathing at the base, length about 1 in., 

 breadth "66 to '75 in. Peduncle of the spike 3 in. long, covered with 

 sparse flexuous white hairs and bearing 2 sheathing bracts. Spike under 

 1 in. long, 2-3-flowered ; floral bracts lanceolate, membranous, sparsely 

 pubescent, shorter than the pubescent ovaries. Flowers about "35 in. 

 long. Sepals ovate-lanceolate, all free, spreading and pubescent out- 

 side. Petals obliquely lanceolate, curved, spreading. Lip longer than 

 the sepals, the basal part cymbiformly saccate, having two unequal 

 pairs of teeth situated at the margin near the base, the terminal part 

 deeply divided into 2 large divergent cuneate-subquadrate lobes erose 

 on the outer margin. Column with 8 tooth-like erect processes ; stig- 

 matic lobes anticous, confluent, 



Sikkim : Lachoong Valley, 7,500 feet elevation ; flowering in 

 August. Pantling No. 412. 



Only two specimens have as yet been gathered of this plant. The 

 dorsal sepal does not cohere with the petals, and the stigma is anticous 

 and undivided ; but in all other respects this has the character of the 

 genus to which we have referred it. It is near Z, goody eroides, Lindl. , 

 of which it may subsequently prove to be a malformation. 

 I 



GOODYERA, R. Brown. 



Goodyera Andersonii, n. spec. Entire plant 6 to 9 in. high. Stem 

 glabrous, leafy. Leaves '8 to 115 in. long and *4 to *5 in. broad, ovate- 

 lanceolate, with very short petioles and large wide membranous sheaths ; 

 petioles about '2 in., the sheaths "5 in. Spike 1 to 2 in long, peduncled, 

 glandular-pubescent. Flowers - 5 in. long ; floral bracts lanceolate, glan- 

 dular-pubescent externally like the sepals petals and ovary, longer than 

 the ovary. Dorsal sepal elliptic, the laterals obliquely elliptic, all blunt. 

 Petals as long as the sepals, linear, slightly falcate, sub-acute. Lip 

 cymbiform, ventricose in its basal half and setose within ; the anterior 

 half ovate, acuminate, concave, entire. 



