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CXXXVI. ORCHIDE^. 
[Hczmaria. 
96. HiEMARIA, Lindl. 
Creeping herbs with few ovate or lanceolate petioled leaves. 
Flowers rather large racemed white. Upper sepal adnate to petals 
forming a large ovate hood, laterals oblong-ovate spreading. Lip 
saccate at base adnate to base and sides of column, terminal lobe 
broad oblong bilobed, lobes spreading. Column dilate upwards. 
Anther ovate acuminate. Pollinia long curved pyriform. Species i, 
Malayan and Chinese. 
(i) H. discolor Lindl. Gen. and Sp. Orch. PI. 490; Miq. Choix 
des Plantes t. 16; Ridl. Mat. i. 216. Ludisia discolor Bl. Orch. 
Arch. Ind. 113, pi. 34, figs. 2, 3 and 44. Goodyera discolor Ker, 
Bot. Reg. t. 271; Bot. Mag. 2055. 
Stem 4 to 12 in. tall, fleshy. Leaves deep velvety brown with 
pink midrib and 2 outer veins, 1 to 3 in. long, 75 to 1-5 in. wide. 
Spike 3 to 8 in. long, white pubescent. Ovary and pedicel white 
woolly, 75 in. long. Flowers fragrant. Lip twisted, side-lobes short 
erect, base with 2 small glands, terminal lobes divaricate. Anther 
yellow. Hab. On bare rocks, sometimes in great masses. Johor 
Pulau Tiuman; Pulau Aor; Pulau Tinggi. Penang Hill (Wallich) ; 
Pulau Betong (Curtis). Kelantan, Gunong, Kota Bharu. Setul, 
Bukit Rajah Wang in great masses. Distrib. Tenasserim, Cochin 
China, China. 
var. Ordiana Williams. Leaf green with golden veins. 
var. Otletce, H. Otletce Rolfe, 111 . Hort. xxxviii. 31, pi. 124, with 
narrow lanceolate leaves dark purple. 
var. Dawsoniana H. Dawsoniana Bot. Mag. t. 7486. Leaves 
broad dark purple reticulate with gold. 
All these varieties grow together, except var. Ordiana, which occurs more 
rarely, on Pulau Aor. The type is a rather small-leaved state with plain 
purple brown leaves. It is often cultivated in gardens, and is known to the 
Malays as Daun Low (after Sir Hugh Low). 
97. ZEUXINE, Lindl. 
Terrestrial herbs ascending. Leaves linear-lanceolate to ovate. 
Flowers small spicate. Sepals sub-equal, upper one forming a hood 
with the petals. Lip adnate to column, saccate with calli inside tip, 
broad more or less bilobed. Column very short with lamellar or 
conic processes in front. Stigmas 2 distinct. Pollinia pyriform 
with an oblong disc. Species 60, tropical Asia and Africa. 
Leaves narrow linear-lanceolate .... (1) Z. sulcata 
Leaves ovate or lanceolate broad. 
Flowers -25 in. long; leaves small ovate . . (2) Z. affinis 
Flowers -25 in. long; leaves 3 in. long, ovate 
acuminate . . . . . . . (3) Z. reniformis 
Flowers very small numerous in a long spike, 2 calli 
in lip .(4) Z. clandestina 
Flowers very small, 12 in spike, callus 1 bilobed . (5) Z. palustris 
