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ascending rarely erect. E, vulgaris, Brand. For, Fl. 501.—Garwhal 
and Kumaon, 
Var. y. sikkimensis; branchlets 12 in. high usually erect robust but 
softish, furrowed when dry and brownish, sheaths of leaves elongate, 
male spikes larger. E. vulgaris, Brandis l.c., the Sikkim plant. (E. 
macrocephala, Bertolon. Misc. xxiii. 17, t. 3.)—Sikkim. 
4. E. NEBRODENSIS (Tineo), Stapf 1. c. 77, t. 8, xx. f. 1-7; an erect shrub, 
branches slender rigid usually strict, male spikes few or solitary crowded 
sessile, fem, cones 1-fld., innermost bracts connate for one-third of their 
length. 
Var. procera; branchlets perfectly smooth, semi-mature fem. cones narrower 
longer, seeds elongate-ovate.—Kuhlwar, Lahul, and Western Tibet.— 
Distrib. Affghanistan and eastward to Greece. 
(With regard to E. vulgaris, A. Rich., to which I have referred E. Gerardiana 
and nebrodensis var. procera, Stapf describes it as E. distachya, Linn. It may M 
useful to give Stapf's diagnosis of it, so as to enable Indian botanists to compare the 
three, premising that he places it in tribe Leptoclade. 
E, pistacuya (Linn.), Stapf l.c. 66, t. 2, xvii. f. 1-5; low or very low shrub, 
erect or ascending from a long or short prostrate base, male spikes solitary castors 
or subracemosely panicled, bracts of the fem. cone shorter than the two seeds, tubule 
of ovule (and seed) erect.) l 
P. 667. The Key to the, genera of Orchideæ having been compiled fron ie 
Genera Plantarum before the analysis of the Indian species was far rar in * 
quies revision, the results of which will be given at the end of the Order 
ol. . 
