328 OBCIIIDÖ OF THE SIKKIiT-KLMALAri.
"Lindley liaa iai Herb. Liim. Soo. nftmcd tho wliolo of 7006A (both ^tlieiings) and B as well,
rcmt'jhis 'jood'JcroMcs witli his o-n-n band. But ho hod heea luoro careful with tho other speoimoiis; for,
oil Sir "Willinm Hooker's (now Ilerh. Kew.) example of 70(jGA ii-om PuspuLuath, he wroto only Pmdylui;
and on a specimen of the same thing which ho got from Wallieh, but which is tioi uumbcred, he again
Jias-nTitten only Fcrisf/z/iis. It is only ou his owii osamplo oi Wall. Cat. TtlGGA, (which is the Toka
plaut, II. 8ffccii('iiif(7, "Willi,), that Lindley has writteu Porisii/his goodncroiilos in full; and the only otlier
place where he has done so (except in Herb, Limi. Soc., which he has clearly esaniiued carclessIy aud
r.apidly) is on die original drmcing of Eoylo 111. 87, fig, 9.
" But at this point our troubles i-ecoiiimcuco. Wo have to decido whether Pcnsfylus goodycroidca,
Lindley, is the same as Ualmaria 'joodi/oroidcs, Don {rrodromm Flovco I^c-^dlcnsh, 25). Don published
tliis book from the collections of Buehanan-IInmilton and of Wallich in the Ilerbai-ixuu of ITr. Lninbert.
But these plants of Wallieh's did not foi-m any part of the Wallichinn Ilorbai-iuni which was distributed
with numbers; they were in fact seut direct by Dr. Wnllich to Mr. Lambert yeai-s before Dr. Wallich
went home with his big Herbarium. "UTieu ICr, Lambert died, his collection wero sold. I have seen
the auctioneer's list. Most of his fine things from South America, Australia, etc., fetched high prices;
some were bought for tho British ICuseum, some for Sh W. Hooker, some for Paris, some for Berlin,
etc, etc. But all the bundles 'Nepal Plants—Wnllich' went cheap, (¿/G, 5/,'G/6 per lot and so on).
Not one of the great botanists wanted them; and OTcry smgle bundle was bought by ilr. Painplin,
the book-seller, for pi-aotiefllly the merest ti-lilc. Yet tlie botanists made a gi-eat bhmder, for these very
bundles coutained nil the types of JCr. David Don's now species of the Pfoilvomtts Flora l^ejKilensis.
ilr. Lamberts siile took place after tho distribution of Dr. WalUch's great herbai'ium, (uid no doubt
everybody concerned thought he abeady possessed everything that could be in Lambert's bimdlcs, and
that all the names would be tho same as on the distributed sheets. As to the fii-st idea, no doubt they
were right; as to the second, the less said tho better.
"ITr. Pamplin fonad his speculation a mistake; cheaply ns ho bought the plants, no one ever wanted
to puvchasa them; and when he gave up bnsinsss 30 yeai-s ago, his Nepaloss specimens were, I midei-stfiud,
thrown aside as rubbish. Anyhow I cannot tr.ica them; and there is no specimen of Hahanaria goodyeroidcs
named by Don either at Eew, the British ilaseum, m tho Herbarium Drake at Paris, or Herbarium De
Candolle at Geneva—four of the most likely places to find one.
«' Mter tho break-up of Mr. Lambert's collection, Mr. Don was Keeper of the Linnteau Society's
Herbarium, and he had gone over tho -^-hob of Wallieh's Herbarium, and named with his own hand tlio
spcciniens there of his Prodromm species; but, just as luck would have it, not tho orchidi; these he
naturally aud propeiiy left enthely to Professor Lindley.
"If Don had only described one Ildiannria of the section Pcrix'yhis, it would have been an easy
matter for us. Biit he described two. Aud so it jnst comes to this : Don saw that WaJlieh s first
impi-cssion was right, that the Toka gatherhig and the Puspulnath one were distinct, and he describes
them as cMeront species accordingly.
"Now wo know that Wallich collected only two forms of Perishjlm in Nepal, and that these two
axe distributed together nnder 706GA; we may, therefore, satisfactorily conclude that those two are just
the ones that Don deals with,
"Of their differences we caa only say that bi-oadly his E. goodyeroides is bigger than his H. offmis,
and that tho colour of the flowers oE lus II. yoodycroiilcs is like that of II. allida-, viz,, 'green.' There
is no doubt, therefore, that it is with the plant described by Sir Joseph Hooker (excluding some of the
sj-nouyras) that Don's plant agrees best. The smaUor plaut which is K. and P's. No. io-i becomes then
(if we axe satisfied that it is eijual to II. s.rcculaia, Wall. Cat. 70(ioA., Toka, and equal to Peristylm
'joodycroides of Eoyle) lI<iJ>c)m-ia affinis, Don,"
PLATE AZO .Salcnaria goodyeroides, Don. A plant, of natural size. Fig, 1 ovary and flo^'cr,
2 coliimn with the sao of the lip attached, showing the authors with the glands of their poUinia {}>(/)
the staminodes (e), the opening into the spur (r), and the stigmas '{«), 3 lip, 4 bract, ovary, column
and spur of lip, in p'nfiU, 5 section of spiir, 6 polliuia; trU enlarijod.
HABEKAIIIA. 329
PLAT. 430 Don, T»-. Linffl. A j,k.t »1,.™ r,6 1
W , ov^ .»d Sower, 2 . p » of ow.y .«<1 colom. (with tk. ..o of ft. hp .1,11 .lt<.d,.d), diowng ,ho
mfter-ooll. md pollmiit gtad, ipA .Ummod«^(t),
4 bTaot, ovary, ralojmi and spur of Up, t
i (s) and opening into the spur (»•), 3 lip,
II profiU, 5 section of spur, G pollinia; all ciilm-gcd.
28. HIIDENAMA PBAISII, Hook. <51. Fl. Br. Lid. VI, 159.
Hoirfit of entire plant 12 to 18 in.; irrognlarly olliiMoid, Stem iith
BBTOral wide-montlwd blunt sheaths near the bn.e. three to fire, about tho middle
of the stem, uneinal, oblong or OTate-obleng, aeute or ,„b-acute, slightly narrowed
to tho Ä y sheathing base, the middle ones tlio largest; length l-.i to 2-5
in breadth S to 1 in. Upper part of stem naked, except for ono or two lanceolate
bracts about -5 in. long. Spilic narrow, l'ä to 3'0 in. long, with numerous xather
crowded flowers about -15 in. in diam. at the mouth; ßml tract lanceolate, acuminate,
erect, longer than the sessile erect OTary. sub-eqnal, elliptic, ,,ub-aeute, not
spreading, tho dorsal very eonoave and the lateral pair more or less so. IM,
fleshy somewhat shorter than tho sepals, broadly oTato-elliptic, gibbons at tlio middle
on the inner edges, tho apei obtuse, the toso obKquely cut away on the inner
side. Lip slightly longer than tlie sepals, with a small globose sac at the base,
concnTO, 3-lobed; the side lobes short, oblong, their apices blunt, pointing foiwards;
the apical lobe broadly oblong, blunt. Co»»» short and broad. Antlmll, parallel,
without tubes ; foUmia. oboToid, their caudiclos slender and short; the glands oibicular,
minute; itamimdu large, sub-erbicular, situated at the sides of tlio anther-cells; infertile
stigma 'large, with two broad lobes, a polliniar gland resting on each. Stigmas two,
obking-orbicular, situated below the staminodes.
SiUkim at Mun^po, clcTation 3,.500 feet; in flower during August; Pantling
No. 167. Assam; at Koluma in tlio Naga Hüls; Praiil. Cachar; Prazer. Upper Burma;
collectors of Calcutta Bot. Garden.
The colour of the flowers is brownish-green.
PL.T. 431 - f f i i t em« Jim«' , Hook. fll. A plant, of nMurat tia. Kg:. 1 taaot, ovarj and flomr,
2 ap.1 of ovary and column, «Wing lie basal sao of the lip (») stOl ottaelied to llie column, and
the entrance to the former (-), the 2-lol)ed iuf.rta« stigma (r), the stigma. (.), tho stammodes Ij),
and th. pollinia with their condicles and glands, 3 the petals, 4 hp, 5 section of spur, C polliuia ; ,.U
entfirged.
29. HABEN.\IIIA PSEUDOPHKVS, King and Pantling in Jem-n. As. Soo. Beng.,
Vol. LXV, Pt. 2, 133.
Height of .entire plant 18 to 23 in. Tulen irregularly oblong, hairy. iSfeui with
throo ot°four long conTolute acuminate sheaths in its lower part, each from 1 to I S in.
lou" Leam about four in number, scattered, distant, tho lower from 1 to 2 in. long,
tlio°uppor 3 in. long; all elliptic-obleng, acute, with broad sheathing bases ; the peduncle
with throe or four scattered lanceolate acuminate bracts "5 to -75 in. long. Spike
3 or 4 in. long; the ßoral Imts lanceolate, einalling or longer than the sessile shortlybeaked
oTaries. Fhwers 15 in. across. Sepals petals and lip connivent. Dorsal tCfal
broadly elliptic, oblong; the lateral pair oblong, all sub-acute. Petah shorter than tho
ANN. HOT. EOT. &Aan., CALOITTA, Tor,. VIII.