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216 CXXXVI. ORCHIDE...E. [HfEmaria.<br />
96. HlEMARIA, Lindl.<br />
Creeping herbs with few ovate or lanceolate petioled leaves.<br />
Flowers rather large racemed white. Upper sepal ad nate to petals<br />
forming a large ovate hood, laterals oblong-ovate spreading. Lip<br />
saccate at base adnate to base and sides of column, terminal lobe<br />
broad oblong bilobed, lobes spreading. Column dilate upwards.<br />
Anther ovate acuminate. Pollinia long curved pyriform. Species 1,<br />
Malayan and Chinese.<br />
(1) H. discolor Lindl. Gen. and Sp. Orch. Pl. 490; Miq. Choix<br />
des Plantes t. 16; Ridl. Mat. i. 216. Ludisia discolor Bl. Orch.<br />
Arch. Ind. II3, pl. 34, figs. 2, 3 and 44. Goodyera discolor Ker,<br />
Bot. Reg. t. 271; Bot. Mag. 2055.<br />
Stem 4 to 12 in. tall, fleshy. Leaves deep velvety brown with<br />
pink midrib and 2 outer veins, I to 3 in. long, '75 to 1'5 in. wide.<br />
Spike 3 to 8 in. long, white pubescent. Ovary and pedicel white<br />
woolly, '75 in. long. Flowers fragrant. Lip twisted, side-lobes short<br />
erect, base with 2 small glands, terminal lobes divaricate. Anther<br />
yellow. Hab. On bare rocks, sometimes in great masses. Johor<br />
Pulau Tiuman; Pulau Aor; Pulau Tinggi. Penang Hill (Wallich) ;<br />
Pulau Betong (Curtis). Kelantan, Gunong, Kota Bharu. Setul,<br />
Bukit Rajah Wang in great masses. Dislrib. Tenasserim, Cochin<br />
China, China.<br />
var. Ordiana Williams. Leaf green with golden veins.<br />
var. OtletfE, H. OtletfE Rolfe, Ill. Hart. xxxviii. 31, pl. 124, with<br />
narrow lanceolate leaves dark purple.<br />
var. Dawsoniana H. Dawsoniana Bot. Mag. t. 7486. Leaves<br />
broad dark purple reticulate with gold.<br />
All these varieties grow together, except var. Ordzana, which occurs more<br />
rarely, on Pulau Aor. The type is a rather small· leaved state With plain<br />
purple brown leaves. It is often cultivated in gardens, and IS known to the<br />
Malays as Daun Low (after Sir Hugh Low).<br />
97. ZEUXINE, Lindl.<br />
Terrestrial herbs ascending. Leaves linear-Ianceolate to ovate.<br />
Flowers small spicate. Sepals sub-equal, upper one forming a hood<br />
with the petals. Lip adnate to column, saccate with calli inside tip,<br />
broad more or less bilobed. Column very short with lamellar or<br />
conic processes in front. Stigmas 2 distinct. Pollinia pyriform<br />
with an oblong disc. Species 60, tropical Asia and Africa.<br />
Leaves narrow hnear-Ianceolate (I) Z. sulcata<br />
Leaves ovate or lanceolate broad.<br />
Flowers '25 m long; leaves small ovate. . (2) Z. afIlnis<br />
Flowers '25 m. long; leaves 3 m. long, ovate<br />
acummate. . . . . . . (3) Z. reniformis<br />
Flowers very small numerous in a long spike, 2 calli<br />
m lip . . . . . . . (4) Z. clandestina<br />
Flowers very small, 12 10 spike, callus I bilobed . (5) Z, palustris
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