Out of this very variable plant M. Richard has
constituted two species, both of which are, I believe,
included in this plate, but which, however distinct in
the case of single specimens of extreme forms, are
still unquestionably but one species. Lindley at one
time made a third but which he afterwards reduced,
viz., & Wighiiana. The three divisions of the plate
contain 1st, (left figure) & Wightiana, Lind., 2d, S.
longi spicata, Rich., and 3d, & aensa? (Rich.) or perhaps
the 1st and 3d may both go to form his densa.
Richard adds a third species which I have not yet
seen, viz. S. Australis, with purple flowers. Perhaps
there is some mistake here, as it was carefully looked
for this season, but in vain, but even supposing
such to be found it is not by any means clear that
it is a distinct species as this one varies in the colour
of its flowers.
1724-ftis. Zuxine bracteata (R. W.), erect, leaves
long, narrow linear, slightly sheathing at the base,
membranous: spike cylindrical, compact, many-flowered
: bracts broad naviculate at the base, tapering
to a long acumen, the lower ones often twice or
thrice the length of the flower, with a conspicuous
costa: posterior sepals and petals galiate, somewhat
saccate; anterior sepals free: lip fleshy, claw long
without callosities, lamina of 2 oblong, obtuse, spreading
lobes. Colour unknown, but apparently white.
Syndibad, Stocks. Flowering February.
I at first supposed this Z i sulcata, but the form
of the lip and want of callosities on the claw are
adverse to that supposition. My specimens vary
from 3 to 10 inches in height. The spike is scarcely
represented dense enough.
1725. Zuxine brevifoiia (R. W.), e re c t: leaves
narrow, linear, acute, about twice the length of the
internodes, some of thé' lower ones slightly sheathing;
spike short, compact: bracts membranous,
longer than the flowers, linear acute, posterior sepal
and petals connate, galiate, convex at the base: lip
fleshy, limb sub-orbicular, cuspidate, claw without
callosities.
Mysore, Jerdon. Flowering December and January.
The plant is represented too large and stout and
the upper leaves too large. In habit it approaches
Z. sulcata and may be a variety of that plant but
I think not.
sent one (1726), are too short, they having generally
a tendency to lengthen as they ascend. Tne specimens
vary from 2 to 7 or 8 inches in height.
1727. Cheirostylts flabellata (R. W. Monochilis
flabellatum, R. W. in Icon.), leaves ovate, 3-
nerved, acute, reticulately veined: scape pilose, few-
flowered on the apex; lip orbicular, limb spreading,
deeply 2-cleft, lobes digitately 4-5-cleft, claw with
two callosities at the base: column furnished in
front with four arm-like processes. Flowers white,
leaves brown, tinged with pale red, and reticulated
with darker coloured veins.
. Kartairy Falls, Neilgherries, among decaying leaves
in the wood at the bottom of the Falls, flowering
in February. It has since been found by the Rev.
Edmund Johnson, flowering in November, near
Coonoor.
1 inadvertently overlooked the union of the sepals
when originally naming this plant and referred it
to the neighbouring genus Monockilus, an oversight
which I must beg the favour of the reader to correct.
The lip of this species differs a little from
the character of the genus but not enough to entitle
it to a new generic denomination.
The pollen which the draftsman has represented
as cleft, solid pollinia, is granular. The lip in aestivation
is curiously rolled inwards, and is inclosed
within the tube of the sepals. The number of
flowers on each scape is from 4 to 8 ; petals pure
white, the ovary green.
1728. Monochilus affine (Lind), stem pilose,
leaves ovate, petioled, nerved : scape furnished with
some sheathing scales : spike secund, few-flowered,
bracts roundish, cucullate, acuminate, membranaceous,
as long as the pubescent ovary: sepals ovate,
acute, petals rounded at the ap e x : lobes of the lip
oblong, coarsely crenate, with two involute, subulate
callosities. Flowers white.
Courtallum, in dense woods, flowering August and
September. It was part of the specimens collected
when this drawing was made to which Lindley
refers and any discrepancies that may be remarked
between the character and the figure is attributable
to the one being taken from recent the other from
dried specimens.
1726. Zuxine robusta (R. W.), erect, leafy,
leaves broad at the base, stem-clasping or slightly
sheathing, approximated, 3-nerved, slightly coriaceous,
acute: spike about half the length of the plant,
bracts broad, foliaceous, longer, than the flowers, or
the upper ones about equaling them: posterior sepal
and lanceolate petals connate, galiate; anterior sepals
free: lip fleshy, limb orbicular, claw dilated, somewhat
lobed at the base: capsule short, thick, and
ventricose.
Mysore, Jerdon. January.
The respective habits of these two species have
not been well preserved in the drawings; nothing
can be more evidently distinct than the aspect of
the plants themselves, though so much alike in the
figures.
/ h e former slender and short leaved, the latter
thick and stout in proportion to its size. This has
partly happened owing to the tallest, not the most
characteristic specimens, of each having been selected
for representation. The upper leaves of the pre-
1729. Goodyera procera (Hooker), caulescent,
glabrous, leaves lanceolate, acuminate, shorter than
the scape: spike long, dense, cylindrical: bracts
ovate, acuminate, longer than the ovary: flowers
sub-globose: sepals and petals roundish, convex, obtuse:
lip bellied, the apex with a callous point, hairy
within, the upper angles of the column acuminate.
Flowers white* anther red.
Burlear, Eastern slopes of the Neilgherries, on the
banks of a stream, flowering July and August I
have found it at different seasons. It is a widely
diffused plant. I have gathered it on the Neilgherries,
Courtallam, Malabar and Ceylon, and have
specimens from other places.
1730. Goodyera ovalifolia (R. W.), roots repent,
leaves ovate acuminate or oftener a, nearly,
perfect oval, with a short point; petiol about half
the length of the limb, dilated, sheathing at the base:
spikes long, slender, thinish (subrara), pubescent:
lower bracts as long as the ovaries acute, sepals
somewhat pubescent, ovate, acute, the posterior one