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Goodyera (SYNS Gonogona Peramium)

SYNS. Gonogona, Peramium. The species are found in Europe, Madeira, tropical and temperate Asia, and (according to Reichenbach) New Caledonia and the Mascarene Islands. To those described on p. 81, Vol. II., the following should now be added:

G. macrantha luteo-marginata (yellow-margined). l. distinctly margined with a band of creamy-yellow. Japan. Greenhouse. (F. d. S. 1779-80; F. & P. 1867, p. 227; G. C. 1867, p. 1022; R. G. 533, f. 2.) G. Rodigasiana (Rodigas'). l. thick, ovate-lanceolate, acute, velvety, pale green, silvery in the middle; sheaths very shortly attenuated. Papua, 1886. Stove. (I. H. 1886, 616.) G. Rollissoni (Rollisson's). l. rich, dark green, margined, striped, and blotched with pale yellow on the upper surface, rich velvety-purple beneath. Native country unknown. A beautiful, stove species.

G. tessellata (tessellated). A synonym of G. pubescens minor.