GOODYERE^,
/ „ » „ aud Smith in Rees- Cyclop. .Y. P„a. Sy„. ii, o i l.
f : P BW Fl. Jav. loV, ,
•il, 38. Spimnthis QnH. Notal iii, SSi; Ic. PI. As. t. 348.
Thr„„gl,„„l the Western Himalaya ap to 10,000 feot. It SowerB all throagh the
3. SpiEisTHES Am-roiiiALis Kich. in lUem Mas, Par. ir (1818), o9.
_ Qk,idul,„-pabescent. ff.rf of two fleshy fasifom or sabcylindric tuber» 1-5 to
0 cm leng Z « i„ a taft at the side of the flowering stem, arranged on a yery
short lateral stem that flowers in the following year, 2-5 to 3-5 cm. long ovate acate
c a n p at the base. stout, twisted, its leng.i, with pedanele 1 f l " m . " ; Ij
™ N ^ ^ ^ »""»a. « - n i s h . ;«
hhaa rryV oouutt s,-ddo . V orb long'-'p .nd.riform, glabrous, ®w ith two glands at the base«, » »e- "reiaut
Sp. Orch. 469: m Joum. Lmn. Soo. i, 277; Boiss. Fl. Or. y, 90. Hook f F1 Br
Ind. 103. spi-alh Linn. Sp. PI. 945. Heottm ^iralu Swarfs A c t . ' l Mm 226 '
Lohuaghft in Kumaon between 4,000 and .3,000 feet, r. r » « , , , flowering in
May. Tins speo.es was collected m Afshanistan by GirifSth, and is found in many
parts o± Lurope betweea the Caucasus and the Atlantic Oceaa,
37. Goodyera R. Br.
Terrestrial leafy herbs. decumbent below, erect above. Z « usuaHy rather
thick, with wide «heaths and usuaUy petioled. Flower, small, numerous, in terminal and
sometimes secund spikes or racemes. Sepah suboqual, often pubescent outside • the dor.^l
concaye and, with the petals, forming a hood over the column, the lateral naii- ft-PP
subconnivent or spreading. Up attached to the base of the column, entire saccate or
cymbiform at the base; apical lobe small, usually acute and decurved, the basal sa.
with set.'B calh or ndges inside rarely smooth. Cote« short, the rosUllum projecting
kntUr usually pyriform, with a long erect beak; poUima usually 2, elevate sessill
large or small gland. Stigma undivided, anticous.-Species about 36, in Eurone
N. America, New Caledonia and the Mascerene Islands. '
Stem tall; up to 7'5 dm. in length, leafy upwards;
flowers in dense Bpikes
Stem not exceeding 3 dm. in lengtli, flowers in more
Lip not setose within, leaves basal.
Sac of lip qxiite smooth within, not projecting beyond
the bases of the sepals « ^
Sao of lip with 2 ridges inside, proje'eting" bJyond "th^ " '
bases of the sepals s a f
GOODYERE^. 165
Lip setose within.
Leaves more or less distant on the stem, not cordate at
the base.
Stem elongate, floral bracts muoh exceeding the
erect flowers • a .M««.
Stem short, floral bracts shorter than the very
large secund flowers q n-Rnra
Li?aves subradical, cordate at the base Q. Q, cordaia.
1. GOODYERA PEOCERA Hook. Exot. Flora t. 39.
Stem 2-5 to 7-5 dm., glabrous, enveloped in the wide lax leaf.sheaths. Leaves many,
long-petioled; petiole 3-5 to 7'5 cm. long, stout aud with a broadly sheathing base • blade
7-n to 15 cm. long, elliptic or ovato-elliptic, tapering at each end, acute or acuminate.
Peduncle beating many lanceolate acuminate bracts, glabrous below, pubescent above,
spike 7-5 to 20 cm. long, many and densely flowered, the rachis pubescent. .Floivers
minute, subglobose, white tinged with green; floral hraci ovate-lanceolate, acuminate,
pubescent at the edges, equalling the glabrous ovary. Sepals sabequal, broadly ovate,
obtuse, sub-conniveiit, glabrous. Petals cuneately obovate, clawed. Up a little longer
than the sepals, with a large saccate base; its apex decui-ved, triangular, acute, entire ;
interior of basal sac with two rows of long set® on the sides and an oblong callus at the
apex of each row. Column very short, with a transverse depression below the broad
anticous stigma. Anther broadly pyriform, obtuse; pollinia clavate-cylindric, sessile on
the small oblong gland. Lindl. Gen. and Sp. Orch. 493 ; in Joura. Linn. Soc i 183 •
Royle 111. 368; Don Prod. FI. Nep. 28; Wight Ic. 1729; Hook. f. FL Br.'Ind. vi'
111, King & Pantling in Ann. R. Bot. Gard. Calc. viii, 282, t, 378; Rolfe in
Journ. Linn. Soc. xxxvi, 45. G. carnea A. Rich, in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 2, xv, 80.
Cionisaccus lanceolatiis Breda Orch. Kuhl. et Hassk. t. 1. Cordylestylis foliosa Falc in
Hook. Journ. Bot. iv (1842), 7o. Neotiia procera Ker. in Bot. Reg. t. 639.
Dehra Dun, Mavkvinon's collector; in the Sub-Himalayan tract of the Bahraich
District in N. Oudh, Duthi^'s collector No. 23862; Outer hills of Garhwal and Kumaon
up to 3,000 feet. Flowers during May. It extends eastwards to Nepal, Sikkim, Bhutan,
Assam, Sylhet and to the Khasia and Naga Hills; southwards it is found in Central
aud S. Intlia ; it occurs also in China, Honkong and Java.
2. GOODYERA REPENS R. Brown in Ait. Hort. Kew, ed. 2, 198.
An evergreen stoloniferous herb, 1 to 2 dm. high. Stem glabrous, leafy below
and bractoate above. Leaves elliptic or ovate-elliptic, subacute, petioles sheathing in
the lower half, blade r2 to 2-5 cm. long, green reticulated with white. Bracts
of upper pai-t of stem and on the peduncle linear, convolute. Raceme 2-5 to 5 cm.
long, subsecund, its rachis and the bracts and ovaries sparsely pubescent or nearly
glabrous. Flowers globular, 3-5 mm. across, white flushed with brownish-pink; floral
bract linear-lanceolate, longer than the ovary. Sepals subequal, ovate, acute, connivent.
Petals about as long as the sepals, obliquely cuneate—oblong, falcately acute at the
apex, the edges slightly erose-dentatc. Lip about as long as the sepals, saccate at
the base, apical lobe short, ovate, subacute, concave, the edges somewhat undulate;