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LISTEREI.
Cephalantiieka ïMsipoLii Rich. Ordì. Annoi 39,
S t „ r i s i n g f r „ , n a t h i n c r e e p i n g r h i . o m e , J-5 t o 1 d m . Mgfc, ft^
b a s e . l e a , , . l a n c e o l a t e or o v a t e j a n c e o l a t o , c o n d n p l i e a t e , 5 t o W d . n . l o n g,
l o n g e r a n d n a r r o w e r t h a n t h e l o w e r . 2-5 t o 3 - 8 c m Ion,- I T
t ^ p e d a n c l e , S. o r m o r e - t l o w e r e d , g l a h r o n . u Z T Z
h r a c t o v a t e - k n o e o l a t o , a c u m i n a t e or a c u t e , s h o r t e r « . , . , ii, „ ,
l a n c e o l a t e , a e a t e ^ . m e w h a t s m a l l e , : I l h S , ' o t s e . ' ' L
y e l l o w spots, d i s t i n c t l y d i v i d e d across t h e m i d d l e b y a n o b l i o™ ; 7 1
Chile a n d epicliile t h e f o r m e r c o n v o l u t e a n d s l i g h t l y U e d Ï ° l a r e r : a : e r d
p r o „ m e n t l y " i b e d . long, t e r e t e . P . « ™ h n e a r - o b l o n g , g r o o v e d . Li 1
O e n a n u S p O r c h . 412^ , n J o u r n . L i n n . Soc. Í, 172, 1 7 5 ; Boiss. F l . (5r v 8 5 - Hook
i. .1. B r . I n d . vi, 12.3; K i n g & P . n t l i n g i n A n n . E . B o t . 4 a r d . Cale v i, V i 't s s î :
l Ü i " w T r l ' V ^ n ' ^ - Fl. G e n n . . i i i , t . 4 7 0 . '
V o y B o t . ™ ; t t e i " ''''' "
, , , Kashmir t o K u m a o n a t e l e v a t i o ns
s i S a Ï B s r . " --- -
3 5 . E p i p a c t i s Adans.
Terrestrial herbs with green leaves and fibrous toots. Lm,„ sessile, pUcate Flowers
racemose, drooping; fiorai h-acü elongating and often leaty. and -petaU hroadlv
lanceolate, acuminale, strongly nerved. Lip adnato to the base of the column, distinctiv
divioed into hypochile and epiehüe; the hypochile strongly defleied, concave or saccate
jomted to the ep,chile at a right angle, both entire. Ooluim short • siioma lar<.e'
anticous; rosMhm broad, prominent. Anihr erect, obtase, its cells oontiguoa.s ; j,ollma°2
bipartite, very narrow.-Species about 10, in the Horthem Temperate Hemisphere.
PlowetB usually in dense racemes, hypochile globulai-saecate, epicliile
ovate-cordate ... ... . ,
JîiowerB Jd.i s^t an,t . ••• — latifolm.
Hypochile troagh-ahaped, epiehile lanceolate ... ... ^ ^ consimià
Hypoohüo broadly saccate, epiohil« ovatc-lanceolate, aouminate ... 3. B. ¡iganlet.
I . E p i p a c t i s l a t i f o l i a All. F h P e d e m . ii, 152.
a ™ n p t o 9 d m . in h e i g h t , s l e n d e r , g l a b r o u s b e l o w , t h e u p p e r p o r t i o n i n c l u d i ng
t h e p e d u n c l e a n d r a c e m e p u b e r n l o u s . 7-5 t o 1 3 c m . l o n g a n d f r o m 5 t o 7 - 5 Z
r „ b r e a d t h s m a l l e r u p w a r d s , o r b i c u l a r t o o v a t o - l a n c e o l . t e o r o v a t e - e l l i p t i c , a c u t e , m a n y -'
n e r v e d , g l a b r o n « , b a t t h e m a r g i n s o f t e n ciliolate. Uuceme 1 t o 3 L . leno- l a v
flowered, usually d e n s e . FU.er. s a b s e c n n d , l-.S t o 2 c a i . a c r o s s , g r e e n ; fiorai Iraàe l i n e a r -
l a n c e o l a t e a c u m i n a t e t i e l o w e i ^ o s t l a r g e a n d l e a f - l i t e . Sepals l a n c e o l a t e , a c u m i n a te
Peal, h i , t h e s e p a l s but s m a l l e r . L,p s h o r t e r t h a n t h e p e t a l s ; t h e h„oem, f o r m i n g à
s n b g l o b o s e sac, r e d d i s h - b r o w n i n s i d e ; epiddk b r o a d l y c o r d a t e , w i t h e r o s e e d g e s , u p p er
s n r i a e e w i t h u s u a l l y t w o g l o b o s e calli n e a r i t s b a s e . Bolumn short a n d b r o a d w h fe
s o m b r e a d . « » » W í ! triangular. Swart£ in Act, Holm, for 1 8 0 0 , 2 3 2 • Lindi Gen'
CTI'
SPÎPACTI3. 161
I ' s n V M • ^ K- B»'- G - ä . Gale.
Tin, 271 t. 363. K maeroetao],,a Lindl, in Wall. Cat. 7404. A eonnmüú Don Prod
r i . i<ep. 28, not of Wall. E. DaVm^.i^ Wight Ic. 1723.
,.rUoea Lindl, in Eoyle 1,1. 368; G e r a n ^ S p O ^ i . C . ' " " "
i-'ear Hnssoorie, BoyU; also in Upper Barnia.
» « J I ° N r 2 « 8 8 ; «-i Tal in Kuni.cn.
2. Epipactis oossbiiiis Wall. Cat. 7403 (not of Don).
. a n c e ^ S r a l i : : ? ^ t l ^ Ü t " Í t e / ! : d ^ ^ ^ ^
Raeeny, 1 to To dm. long, ¿ 1 S o L ' T l narrower, nerves prominent.
across; fi.ral irae, ovate or l i n L ' r c e l t e ' "> ^ ^ «m.
pabescent outside, „ne,ual, con av r e d L r " ' ? ""
wider. Pela, ovate, a c ' n t e , ' t o m e Z e ' on s d T J T h e t S f ' d ^ ™ ' '^
shorter than the sepals; h„ochile trourf, , .''""'"«"'"i "P » little
with two larger obtuse s e i - t a l r r e n f f ' """I"' ="111 i " « ' ' ' '.
lanceolate. wiU erect l o h T p ^ r i ^ X e ' " ^ ; ^ ? T T
the white ape., CoUun atou, much I v e r X ^ h l e b " t f
on the lower margin. A f c , - t u m i d . Hook, f f T b . & ^ »"I-^s
in Ann. E. Bot. Gard. Calo. viii. 272, t. 364- Bolfe ¡ 7 T„ f ' " " *
E. Boiss. & Hohen. Diagn. Ser. 1 xhi 11 E„ s T r , A "'
Joarn. Linn. Soc. i, 174, ' ' ' ' 0'- 87; Lindl, in
Qilgit district, Wlnterlottom íí„. gge- Chitral n ,, •,
16674; Bashahr, Lae, Ko. 352- near C l a 3 m t f ' . ^ f
Garhwál, ftW; below Muss o S ^ S J / f l . S T ' ' ' , , " ' - - ' ^ - ^
miMe Nos. 1 0 7 8 3 , 2 2 7 2 0 . BanUe, Kum n 3 o o o " , t '
UtUm No. 51. Flowers during Fehiuacv , / T T ' ^ ^''t'-r-
Sikhim at low elevation, and o i r s a so : j the s t Hill
Gangctic Plain it is met with along the talks rf tW t " T
near Sahariinpnr. It grows also in th'e Peshaw r V L f a n f " " th K
and extends throagh Afghanistan westwards to Sy! I n d t a l Ld r Ö h '
The sepals of this plant are clothed « t h wMl, h . i . a dc.n , ,
e-en, a, are both surfaces of tbo petals, and a r e " .«r b T ' ™
hypochile of the lip is p.rple, and the'epiciile is pIL b ™ ' t r . p e r b i g t ; ' ""
Ak«. liov. B „ . Caio., Vol. IX.