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i^pean specimens, but is evidently the same. The plant found by 

 Dr. Thomson in Western Thibet has a thinner raceme, and a 

 smaller lip much compressed with a pair of large caJli at the base 

 of the epichil ; the ovary, moreover, is perfectly smooth, as in 

 what has been called Epipactis Phyllanthus^ but I do not think, in 

 so variable a species, such characters have any distinctive value. 

 -^. herhacea is not distinct from the B. viridiflora oi European 

 botanists. 



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13. E, iNTEirsA ; habitu E, lat\foli<B valdS attenuatse folio unico parro cuique 

 cauli, floribusque long^ distantibus, hypochilio subtus inferuso, epichilio 

 ovate apiculato trinervi ecalloso. 



[ Sikkiin, at 11,000 feet, J. JD. IT. (323 mixed with H. latifolia). 



This seems to be something more than an attenuated starved 

 state of E. latifolia^ (with which it is mixed in Dr. Hooker's col- 

 lections,) on accomit of the hypochil being pushed upwards as it 

 were from below, so as to be convex in the inside, and the epichil 

 having no calli and no venules, but only three well-defined veins 

 ending in a little distinct point. 



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14. C. ensifolia, L. C. Richard, 



C. acununata, lAndL Gen. et Sp. OrcA. p. 412; ^A^, Ic. 1 1721. ■ 

 Seeunda Devee, near Mussooree ; Dadoo-ka-Taola, in (Jurhival ; NJW. Hima- 

 layas generally to the height of 6000-10,000 feet, J. JD. H. & T. T. (321) ; 



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Bootan, near Panga, in oak and fir woods at 7500 feet, Griffith ; in pine 

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am persuaded that the Indian Cephalantheras all belong to 

 one and the same species, that one being the common European 

 .0. ensifolia. The specimens before me differ in the length and 

 breadth of their leaves and in the denseness of their inflorescence ; 

 perhaps, too, in the form of the epichilium, a point hard to deter- 

 iiiine when dried. The Bootan specimen is the smallest. It haa 

 already been found in the country beyond Caucasus according 

 to Eeichenbach fil. I have seen no specimen with the long leafy 

 bracts which Dr. Wight's artist has represented; such a state is 

 only to be found occasionally associated with the lowest flower. 



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15. L. piKETOEirM ; foliifl cordato-subrotundis acutis, rachi flexuo84 tomen- 

 )s&, braeteis adpressis ovarii longitudine, floribus subsessilibus, labello 

 O^aximo obovato bilobo, columna elongate. 

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