0 2 AKNALS OP EOYAL BOTANIC GAEDE-N, CALONTTA.
ovate-lanceolate; pollinia uarrovrly pyriform-, united at tlio base into a very sbort
slender stipe or strap seated on a narrowly linear gland.
The drawing from Tvliicíitlie plats is produced is inscribed "Tonglo,
atoTe the sea, 2nd August 1862, T. Anders."
Fig. 1, flower; 2, thes
all enlarged.
ae, with tlw sspals aud petals rcroovodi 3, ovary i
Darjaeling, 10,000 ft.
ccrlutnn; 4, ontlior ; 6, pollmia s—
P L A T E 93.
POGONIA SCOTTII, Reichb. /.. .
p . Scoila-, elata, glaborriina, folio longe petiolato ampio lato reniforme apiculato
multinervi, scapo valido sulcatQ, racemo erecto multifloro, bracteis ovaiio ajquilongis v.
longioribus lineaxi-lanceolatis deflexis, sepalis petalisque Kneari-lanceolatis acuminatis
viridibus rnbro-striatis, labello sepalis fequilongo subunguiculato ima basi saccato
obovato spatliulato albo rubro striato ultra raediaìn S-lobo, lobis latcralibus brevibus
obtusis terminali auborbiculari velutino. lieÌGkb. f . in Flora, 1872, 276; Hook. f . FI. BriL.
Ind. vi, 120.—? Pogonia No. 2, Grif. NoM. iii. 377 et le. PL Aùat. t. 345.
HAI3.—SIKKIII HIÌIALA-YA; Darjeeliiig {fide Reichh. /.). CHITTAGONQ, at Sitalcoond
[le. in. Herb. Calcìitta). Burma? Grìjfith.
§ 10 in. diani., dark green, with about 20 principal folds, and many
interposed nerves, bright green above ; petiole 12 in., acutely ribbed, green
above, red-purple below the middle. Scape about as long as the petiole, darli-brown
below and as thick as a goose-quill, more slender, green, and acutely ribbed above;
sheaths few, 1—1^ in^j cymbiform; raceme strict, 4—6 in. long, rachis angled; bracts
1—1 in., green, veiy slender; pedicels with ovary ^ in., decurved; liowers f in. long,
horizontal. Sepals and petals connivent. Column dor sally hairy at the tip.
A noble species, much the largest hitherto known, discovered, I believe, by Mr. Scott uear Ohittagoug
when Ciu'ator of the Calcutta Botonio Garden, and after whom Reichenbaeh named it. I do not know on
what authority the latter author gives Sikkim as its native country, though it is a very Ukely one.
Lindley refers the Burmese plant of Griffith to P. e<m,iaia, but the saccate base of the Up and flowers
placed at an angle with the ovary rather indicate P. SsoUii. Theh- characters are, however, not shown in
GriiBth's figiire.
The drawing here reproduced is iascrlbeJ "PogDuLa nohilis, S:otl. Po^'oaia o£ Soetakoond hill,
introd. 1866, figd. June 18G8."
Fig 1 flower; 2, the same with the sepals aad petals displaced aad the U]) (Ig. 3) removed; 't, untlior;
&, filimi-.-aU enlarged.
P L A T E 94.
POGOÌJIA CARISATA, Lindi.
P. cannata^ glaberrima, folio orbiculari-cordato acuto 7—l2-nervi, acapo foliis
l o n ^ o r e teretiusculo, racemo erecto sparsifloro, bracteis linearibug ovariis multo longioribus,
p e i c e l l i s brevibus, sepalis petalisque patentibus anguste linearibas oblanceolatis^^e
^ u m i n a t i s viridibus, labello sepalis fequilongo basi non saccato ad medium 3-lobo
A CEKTGEY OF INDIAN ORCHIDS ; (J. D. HOOKEB). 6 3
cuneato-obovato vi.t ungiiiculato, lobis lateralibus parvis rótundatis constrictis, tcrminali
latiore late ovato acuto crenulato, disco pubescente. Lindl Gen. and Sp. Orchid. 414 et
in Journ, Linn. Soc. iii. 45 {excl. syn. Griffith)-, Hook. f . Fl. Brit. Ind. vi, 121.
? Dais, and Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 270. Epipactis carinata, lioxb. Hori. Beng. 5Z et Fl. Ind.
iii, 452.
UAB. —Plains of INDIA, from Eohilcund to Lower Bengal and the Deccan Peninsula.
PJiGU, Karz.
Tule)- globose, the size of a marble, annulate. Leaf —2^ in. dlam., dark green,
not waved, but plicate; petiole 2—4 in., striate, passing below into a long, erect
rhizome, with horizontal roots and suckers; at the junction of the petiole and rhizome is
a lanceolate sheath. Scape 8—12 in., slender, terete, with appressed tubular basal sheaths;
raceme many or few-fld. ; bracts 4—f in. long, spreading, green ; pedicels about
A in.; ovary longer, turbinate; sepals « in.-- long,' and . rather ..
narrowed ;
greenish; lip pink.
I am pretty certain that this is Lindley's P. carinata. On the drawing it is named "P. plicaia,
Lindl. fid, in. H. B. C. in pots, April 1861, T. Anders.," which it certainly is not, that species being only
1—3-fld., and having hairy leaves and small bracts. The column is, however, similarly deeply 2-lobed
at the tip, and the long siurculi proceeding from the downward prolongation from the base of the petiole
are no doubt of the same natui'e as the tuheriforous ones of P. plicata. The Indian Pogonias ai'e very
imperfectly known, and being of an extremely delicate consistence, it is only from very carefully preserved
specimens or di'awings that characters of any value can bo drawn.
Fig. 1, flower ; 2, ovary and lip ; 3 and 4, ovary and column; 5, 6, and 7, anther ; 8, pollinia -.—all enlarged.
P L A T E 05.
HABENAEIA. [Ate) DIGITATA, Lindl.
II. digitata-, foliis ovatis v. ovato-oblongis, racemo multifloro, floribus viridibus,
bracteis elongatis inferioribus foHaceis ovario longioribus, sepaHs patentibus, lateralibus
ovatis acutis, dorsali suborbiculari, petalis bipartitis segmentis linearibus falcatis, labelli
tripartiti segmentis linearibus acutis lateralibus terminali longioribus v. bvev'ioribus
calcare ovario asquilongo acquali v. apice clavato, antherarum loculis pendulis tubia
brevibus incurvis, rostello triangulari erecto. Dah. and Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 267- Book
f . Fl. Brit. Ind. vi. 134. H. trinorve, Wight. Ic. t. 1701. Bonatea punduana' Liudt
in Wall. Cat. n. 7063. 13. benghalensis, G^-iff. in Calo. Journ. Nat. Hist, iv 382
B. h erbacea, Wall. nm.
HAN.-KASMIM, Falconer. SIKKIM, alt. 7,000 ft., King. {Ic. in Herb. Calcutta) ASSAW
Smions. SILIIET, Wallich. BENGAL, Grifith. TENASSERBI, Parish. WESTEKN GHATS from
the Concan Southwards. '
Stem 1 - 2 ft. from an oblong tuber, leafy chiefly towards the middle. Leaves 2—; in
long, very variable in breadth, from orbicular to almost oblong-lanceolate acute or
a c h a t e , rarely narro^ved into a petiole, liaceme 3 - 0 in. ; bracts large, often almost
fohaeeouB, and exceeding the flowers; pedicels very short; flowers in. dianu Ser-menti
ot pciah very variable in length, sinus between them nnno^..cd or rounded. Spur with