GOODYERA. 409 



G. TRICOLOR, Mchb. f. — One of the handsomest of the Gongoras, having 

 oblong-orate thickly-ribbed pseudobulbs, bold plicate leaves, and fine stout 

 drooping racemes of bright-coloured flowers of comparatively large size. The 

 dorsal sepal, aflBxed half-way up the back of the column, is lanceolate, and as 

 well as the lateral ones, which are obliquely triangular, broad at the base, 

 narrowing upwards, deep bright yellow heavily spotted and blotched with rich 

 sienna-brown ; the petals are small, narrow, pale yellow, lightly spotted ; the lip 

 is prettily marked, the hypoohil being white, oblong, convex, and two-horned 

 at the base, the front truncate, with acute angles extended into two long awns, 

 white with one or two dark brown spots, and the epichil acuminate, stained on 

 the sides with cinnamon (bright rose in the figure) ; the pedicels are purple. — 

 Panama or Peru. 



Via.— Sot. Beg., 18i7, t. 69. 

 Stn. — G. maculata tricolor. 



G. TRUNCATA, Liiidl. — A fine and very distinct species, with light- 

 coloured flowers of full average size. The habit of the plant as regards the 

 pseudobulbs, foliage, and inflorescence resembles that of the other species. The 

 chief peculiarity is in the flowers, which are whitish or straw-coloured, marked 

 by a few brownish-purple transverse freckles, the lip being a clear varnished 

 yellow. The dorsal sepal is obovate carinate, the lateral ones roundish oblong, 

 and so blunt-ended that the buds before expansion resemble a bean in form ; 

 the petals are small and the lip is curved, the hypochil compressed in the 

 middle, and bearing a pair of awns in front, while the epichil, or anterior 

 portion, is ovate and channelled, and when turned up is suggestive of the form 

 of the front part of a gondola ; the pedicels are mottled purple. — Mexico. 



Fig.— Bot. Reg., 184.5, t. 56 ; Ami. ilc Gand, 1848, t. 205. 



GOODYERA, Robert Brown. 



(^Trihe Neottieae, suttriie Spirantheae.) 



An interesting genus of dwarf growing plants, with compact flesliy 

 stems, and much of the general character and aspect of Anoectochilus, 

 which they also resemble in the dark velvety green leaves which many of 

 them possess, and which in some cases are marked by silver or golden 

 lines. The flowers have the dorsal sepal and petals connivently galeate, 

 and the sessile lip has the small lamina undivided. The plants have 

 thick fleshy roots, and push from underground stems, forming neat 

 dwarf tufted plants. The flower spikes, which issue from the centre of 

 the foliage, attain a height of from six to ten inches, some of the kinds 

 bearing delicate white flowers, which are very useful for bouquets, as 

 well as for other purposes. The genus contains many species, which are 

 widely distributed, occurring in Europe, Madeira, North America, 

 Temperate and Tropical Asia, New Caledonia, and the Mascarene Islands. 



