Geodorum
(from ge, the earth, and doron, a gift). ORD. Orchideoe. A small genus of stove terrestrial orchids, natives of East India. Scapes terminating in a nodding spike of flowers, which in some are of a pale green colour, the lip white, veined with purple or yellow lines; and in others blush, with a yellow spot on the lip. Leaves radical, lance-shaped or elliptical. Roots tuberous. The species thrive in fibrous peat, in a hot, damp stove, but require to be rested after the leaves have withered. G. citrinum (lemon-coloured). fl. yellow, close; spike pendulous; lip somewhat spurred at base, blunt and entire at end; scape shorter than leaves. October to December. l. lanceolate. h. 1ft. East Indies, 1800. (B. M. 2195.) G. dilatatum (swollen). fl. whitish flesh-colour, crowded; sublabiato-campanulate, nodding; racemes many-flowered, sparsely imbricate. Summer. l. 6in. long, 3in. to 4in. broad, erect. lanceolate; scape leaves short. h. 6in. to 12in. India, 1800. (B. R. 675.) G. fucatum (painted). fl. sub-campanulate; sepals pink, linear-oblong, acute; lip ovate, concave, emarginate, entire; scapes radical, erect, clothed, recurved at apex. July. l. oblong-lanceolate, acute, plicate, long. h. 1ft. Ceylon, 1832. (B. R. 1687.)