124 OXLVIII. ORCHIDEZ, (J. D. Hooker.) ( Yoania. 
thickened towards the tip, I find nothing to distinguish this from the Japan plant; 
the column and anther are identical; I failed to find pollen. The flowers, black 
when dry, are so fragile that I had great difficulty in making out their structure. 
101. EPIPOGUM, Gmelin. 
Terrestrial leafless brownish herbs; root tuberous or coralloid; stem 
erect, sheathed. Flowers laxly racemed. Sepals and petals subequal, free, 
narrow, erect or spreading. Lip sessile at the base of the column, superior 
or inferior, ovate, entire or 3-lobed, spurred, base broad, disk with rows of 
papille. Column short, foot 0; stigma broad, prominent ; anther thickened, 
dorsally 2-celled; pollinia 2, separately attached by a filiform strap toa 
small gland.— Species the following. 
1. E. aphyllum, Swartz Summ. Veg. Scand. 1814; root branching, 
column cylindric, spur very large as long as the superior 3-lobed lip 
inflated incurved, Palmstr. Svensk. Bot. t. 512; Boiss. Fl. Orient. v. 93; 
Reichb. Ic. Fl. Germ. xiii. t. 468; Nees Gen. Fl. Germ. Monocot. iii. No. 28. 
E. Gmelini, Richard Orchid. Europ. Annot. 36; Lindl. Gen. & Sp. Orchid. 
383; in Journ. Linn. Soc. i. 176 ; Bot. Mag. t. 4821. Satyrium Epipogium, 
Linn. Syst. Veg. 676; Jacq. Fl. Austr. t. 84. 
WESTERN TEMPERATE HIMALAYA, alt. 6-8500 ft., Kashmir, Clarke; Simla, ` 
Thomson ; Garwhal, Duthie.—DistriB. Europe, N. Asia. 
Stem 4-8 in., often very stout and swollen at the base; sheaths 1-2, short, 
appressed, truncate or obtuse. Racemes 3-6-fld. ; bracts large, membranous, oblong; 
obtuse or acute ; flowers pale yellow or pinkish, spotted, ovary turgid ; sepals jm 
long and subequal petals lanceolate, margins involute ; lip oblong, whitish, with lines 
of red glandular warts, lateral lobes small, very variable in size; spur obtuse. 
2. E. nutans, Reichb. f. in Bonpland. 1857, 36; root an oblong 
tuber, spur straight shorter than the inferior entire lip. Lindl. in Journ. 
Linn. Soc.i. 177 ; Benth. Fl. Austral. vi. 308 ; E. roseum, Lindl. Le, Galera 
nutans, Blume Bijdr. 415, t. 3; Mus. Bot. ii. 187; Orchid. Archip. Ind. 
139, t. 52 & 54 E; G. rosea, Blume Mus. Bot. 188, & Orchid. Archip. Ind. 
139; Podanthera pallida, Wight Ic. t. 1759. Ceratopsis rosea, Lindi. Gen. 
& Sp. Orchid, 383. Limodorum roseum, Doa Prodr. 30. 
TROPICAL HIMALAYA; Nepal, Wallich; Sikkim, in hot valleys, J. D. H. 
Clarke. KmHasrA Mrs., alt. 6000 ft., Mann. DECCAN PENINSULA, in the W ynaad, 
Jerdon. CEYLON, TAÀwaites.—DisTRIB. West Africa, Java, Australia. 
Root like a small potato. Stem 4-8 in., stout or slender; sheaths several, short, 
inflated, truncate. Racemes few or many-fld.; bracts large, membranous, oblong, 
acute ; flowers pale yellow or pinkish white, speckled or stained with pink; sepals and 
petals narrowly lanceolate, 3-3 in. long; lip entire, disk with 2 or 3 glandular 
ridges. 
102. CEPHALANTHERA, Richard. 
Terrestrial herbs, leafless and tuberous rooted, or with leafy stem and 
fibrous roots. Leaves sessile, plicate. Flowers  suberect, spiked or 
racemed. Sepals and petals subsimilar, free, conniving. Lip included, 
erect from the base of the column, hypochile concave or saccate embracing 
the column, epicbile short. Colwmn semi-terete, rostellum short or 0b80- 
lete; stigma anticous; anther erect; pollinia 2, 2-partite. Capsule erect. 
—Species about 10, north temperate regions. 
