272 OECHIDS OP THE SIKEIM-HIAIALiYA.
mavgius often ciKolatc; Vo to 2'5 in. long and 1 to 1-5 ia. broad, (snmllcr upwards).
Peduuclc 2. to 3 iu. long. liaceme longer, 8- to 12-flowercd, its rachis sometimos spiral.
Flou'drs -5 in. across; floral Iract liiicar-lancoolate, acuniiuatc, longer tlian the nearly
glalorous stalked oVary. Sepah lanceolate, acuminate, glabrous. Petals similar but smaller.
Lip shorter than the petals; the hypoehile globnlai-ly saccate; tlie epichile broadly
cordato, tlie edges erose, the upper surface with two globose caili near its base. Column
very short, nan-owod to the base; stigma broad. Aniltcr erect, narrow; polUnia elUptic,
falcate. Swartz iu Act. Holm, for ISOO, 232; Lindl. Gon. and Spec. Orchid. 461;
13oiss. FI. Orient. V, 87; Rciclib. Ic. Fl. Germ. XIII, tt. 13Í-136; Hook. fil. Fl. Br.
Ind. VI, 125. E. mavoHachya, TÁndl. in Wall. Cat. 740i. E, consimilk, Don Prod.
F l . Ncp. 28. H. DaUiomia;, ^Yight Ic. t. 1723.
Sikkim, at Gnatong, elevation about 11,000 feet; in flower during July; Pantling
No. 330. Distributed westward along the range to Kashmir; also in Northern Asia,
Eiu-ope and Northern Africa.
The whole plant is green, except the colman which is pm-e white.
PLATE ZQZ.—Epipnciii kiifoUa, AU. A small plaut, of natural size. Fig. 1 N flo-srer, 2 ovary,
column with antlier in situ, aud. lip, side view, 3 lip, 4 apes of ovary and front of column, showing
the stigma and auther, 5 antbor, G pollinia; ali en/arffeJ.
2. EPIPACTIS CONSIJIILIS, "Wall. Cat. 7403 (no¿ of Don).
Ileight of the whole plaut 18 to 24 in. Stem glabrous. Leaves lanceolate, acuminate,
6 to 8 iu. long, the lowest the broadest, those of the upper part of the stem very
narrow. Peduuele short. Uaccme 4 to 6 in. long, laxly-Howcred, tomentose like the
lieduncle. Fbwers -75 to 1 in. across, jloval Vract variable. Sepals uuotjual, concave;
the dorsal lanceolate, acute; tlie lateral pair twice as wide, all spreading and pubescent
externally. Petals ovate, acute, the inidiib extenially thickened and tomentose. Lip
nearly as long as the sepals; hy[)ocliile of lip trough-siiaped, bearing granuhu- unequal
calli inside, the two ucar the apes large, obtuse, semi-transparent and nectar-exuding;
cpicliile lanceolate, with erect side lobes, the upper surface with a raised mesial lino
disappearing near the white apex. Column stout, much cm-ved. Stigma, large, sub-rotund
and with two glands on the lower margin. Anther tumid. Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. VI,
126. E. veratrifolia, Boiss. and Hohen. Diagu,, Ser. I, XHI, 11; Boiss. FI. Orient-
V, 87; Lindl. in Joui-n. Liun. Soc. I, 174.
Sikkim, in damp ground iu the Teesta valley at an elevation of about 1,000 feet ;
in flower dui-iog February and March ; Pantling No. 125. Distiibuted along the
mountain range from Nepal to Peshawar, also in Syria.
Tlie sepals of this are on the outside of a deep lavender colour with wliite
hairs ; on the inner sm-face they are green with broad unequal vertical brown bands,
and the petals on both surfaces are coloui-ed like them. The hypoehile of the lip is
puri^le and the epichile bright pale brown, the apex being pure white. The column
is gi-een throughout.
Pi.ATK 364.—EpipacUi coniimilis, "Wall. A plant, of nafural size. Fig. 1 a flower, 2 floral bract,
stnlked ovary, column with the anther in s'Uu, and the lip, side view, 3 lip, i column, showing the
stigiaa -with its two glands and the anther, 5 summit o£ column and hypoehile, 6 anther, 7 pallinia;
till enlarged.
Tribe V.-GOODYEREAE.
Anthr posticous, vertical but inverted; pollinia two, or four in two pairs, attached to
a single gland either by one or by two caudicles, or without a caudicle; poUen granular
or sectile.
Stigma singlo, onticous; pollinia two, or four in two pairs.
Lip spurred (except in Corymbis and one Tropidid).
PoDinia narrow, clavate, grooved, produced and nnited below
to a single caudicle inserted on a long narrow gland;
leavea plicate; stem erect (not decumbent at the base),
sometimes branching.
Lip with a Tery long claw and en abruptly düated
apical lobe, the base neither saccate nor spurred. 76. Cm-ymbis.
Lip short, concave; the baso saccate or spurred, not
Pollinia narrow, elongate, each inserted within a free bomshaped
caudicle with a gland at its hose 7Í. Eerpysma.
Pollinia clavate, grooved and bifid, united below and inserted
on a small narrow elongate gland, candióle none . . . 79. Phi/iuria.
Lip without spur claw or eao; poUinia clavóte, grooved, inserted
without caudicle on a smoll elongate gland Spirantfies.
Lip saccate at the base, the sac usuoUy setoso or tuberoled within;
poUinia sessHe on a variously shaped gland, caudicle none . . 81. Goodt/era.
Stigmes two, distant, lateral (united into a narrow transverse band in
one species of Zouxixi, and conjoined and anticouB in one species
of A»«ciocMlus) ; pollinia two, bipartite (four in one species of
AticectocMlu«).
Lip inferior.
Sepals free.
Lip saccate or cymbiiorm at the base; the sac with calli
or lamins; mesocbile when present not pectinate or
toothed Ze'^ii«-'
Lip saccate or spurred at the bose, and with a long
toothed or pectinate mesocbile (entire in one epecies);
apical lobe with two divergent lohulea S3. Anaicioihilua.
Sepals xmitod into a tube Cheirostylis.
Lip Buperior Eelaria.
76. Corymbis, Thouars.
Terrestrial rigid erect herbs with tall leafy stems and fibrous roots. Leaves broad,
sheatliing, plicate. Sepals and petals narrow, at first cohering in a tube, their tipa
alone free, finally quite free and spreading. Lip parallel to the column and adnate
to its base, narrowly Knear, without side lobes, channelled, the apex abruptly dilated
and decurved. Column long but shorter than the perianth, straight, terete with a
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