Pogonia.] OXLVIII. ORCHIDER., (J. D. Hooker.) 119 
broadly cordate or orbicular, strongly plicate. Flowers solitary, few, or 
many,racemed, horizontal or pendulous. Sepals and petals subequal, narrow, 
connivent or widely spreading. Lip inferior, adnate to the base of the 
column, sessile or sub-clawed, usually narrow, entire or 2-fid or 3-lobed; 
‘pura very short sac. Column elongate, tip clavate, stigma oblong or 
broader; rostellum Short; anther substipitate; pollinia 2 or 4. Capsule 
erect or pendulous.—Species about 30; of Sect. Nervilia about 12. 
The above characters apply exclusively to the section Wervitia, (genus of 
Gandichaud), to which all the Old World species of Pogonia belong; and which all 
flower before leafing. All the other species, except one Japanese, are New World, 
and their flowering stems bear leayes.—The species are very difficult of analysis 
erbarium specimens, but I have been greatly aided by the drawings in 
kac Kew, and those of Herb. Calcutt., kindly lent by Dr. King. All want 
on. 
* Stem 1-3./td, 
LP, plicata Lindl. Gen. & Sp. Orchid. 415; leaf orbicular-cordate . 
biy, stem 1-8-fd,, lip embracing the column, tip dilated 2-lobed. 
dc, plicata, Roxb. FU. Ind. ii. 454. Arethusa plicata, Andr. Bot. 
» t. 92]. 
Loss BENGAL, the Concan & MYSORE, Roxburgh, Ze, . : 
er globose. Leaf 2-4 in. diam., very many-nerved; petiole 1-3 in., often 
TUty-purple or brown, Flowering stem 4-6 in. ; bracts small; flowers 13 in. diam. ; 
and petals widely spreading, narrowly oblanceolate, acuminate, greenish ; lip 
embracing the column, sides convolute, whitish or rose-coloured, tip pink,—Roxburg 
es and figures the tuberiforous suckers propagated from the apex of the petiole 
under the surface of the soil. 
D P. bifora, Wight. Ic. 7399; leaf unknown, stem 2-8d, lip 
Yate obtusely 3-lobed about the middle, embracing the column. 
MALABAR; in the Wynaad jungles, Jerdon 
uber globose. Flowering p 2-4 in.; bracts slender; flowers 1j in. diam. ; 
l and petals narrowly oblanceolate, white; lip pink, contracted at the base, side 
simi] rounded, midlobe emarginate crisped.— Amongst Parish’s drawings is one o a 
A Moulmein plant in flower only, with red-brown stem, pink sepals an 
and a more clavate column than in Wight’s figure. 
fo P. Juliana, Wall. Cat. 7399; leaf ovate-cordate glabrous, stem 
column, with 2 narrow faleate side lobes near the base which embrace the 
its Ki BI a longer rhombic-lanceolate acuminate midlobe which is hairy 
gg e. Hook.f. Te, Plant. ined. Epipactis Juliana, Roe’. PI. Jnd. ii 
NE (Ic. in Herb, Calcutt.). SILHET, Clarke. Lower BENGAL, Roxburgh, 
; in the Doombera district; Thwaites. tole 
lower; Leaf 2-3 in., 5-7-nerved, green or purple beneath ; pe iole 
tal; Geng stem 3-6 in, ; bracts ensiform ; flower about 23 in. diam. ; sepals ane 
in rrowly oblanceolate, acuminate, green; side lobes of lip white mi ope 
Plant (P. white mottled with pink, —Amongst Parish’s drawings is one of a 1 ou 1 n 
chi pro Par. mss.) like juliana, but with purple-green sepals and petals, an 
h : 
Ypochile longer than £he epichile; it is in flower only. 
4p vel . . 142: 
i Utina, Par. & Reichb. f. in Trans. Linn. Soc. Xxx. 142; 
tat iers. velvety on ho f surfaces, stem 2-fld., lip shorter 
è Sepals embracing the column oblon g-ovate obtuse. 
ABSERIM ; at Moulmein, Parish, 
