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| GOODYERA procera. 
Tall Goodyera. | 
GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA.—Nart. Orv. ORCHIDE LE. 
Gen. Cuar.—Corolla ringens ; petalis exterioribus anticis, labello inferne 
gibboso’ superne indiviso, suppositis. Columna libera. Pollen angula- 
tum. seBr. 
Goodyera procera; caule folioso, foliis ovato-lanceolatis petiolatis, labello 
rotundato intus bi-tuberculoso glanduloso, petalis late ovatis. 
Neottia procera, “Waxiicu.—Bot. Ree. t 639. .. 
Stem 14 foot high (to 3 feet, according to Bot. Reg.), slender, flexuose, leafy. 
| Hheities’ erecto-patent, ovato-lanceolate, acuminate, slightly waved: at the 
margin, pale green, obsoletely 3 or 5 nerved, the central one or midrib 
keeled below, tapering downward into Seitalli, which embrace the 
stem with their bases; upper ones — smaller, sessile, and running 
into the bracteas. 
Spike from 4 to 6 inches long, of numerous sessile flowers, each subtended 
by a lanceolate bractea, shorter than the germen. 
Flowers white, small. Leaflets of the perianth broadly ovate, concave, the 
3 uppermost ones connivent and united, the 2 lowermost free, patent. 
Lip very small, rounded, white, very gibbous at the base on the under- 
side, the apex spreading and recurved. The base within has numerous, 
rather large pellucid glands, and between them and the extremity are 
2 ovate white tubercles. Column short, white, rounded at the back. 
Anther sunk into a hollow at the back of the stigma, ovate, deciduous, 
2-celled, leaving upon the back of the stigma, when it falls, 2 club- 
shaped, bipartible, bright yellow pollen-masses, composed of granules co- 
hering in fours, and these pollen-masses fixed by their base to a gland at 
the point of the stigma, which, as in Goodyera repens,,probably falls away 
with the pollen-masses. aes oblong, slightly twisted. Stigma square, 
-yiscid, occupying almost the whole of the front of the column. 
This interesting species of Goodyera resembles very much, 
in the form of its flowers, the G. repens of the Mlora Londi- 
nensis and Hortus Kewensis, and also the G. pubescens, so 
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