Cephalanthera.] tem. omoHipEX. (J. D. Hooker.) 125 
C. ensifolia, Richard Orchid. Annot. 29; leaves ovate or lanceolate, 
bracts of the upper flowers much smaller than the almost glabrous 
ovaries, Kageeg triangular obtuse ó-ridged. Lindl. Gen. & Sp. Orchid. 
412; in Journ. Linn. Soc.i.172, 175; Boiss. Fl. Orient. v. 85. C. Xypho- 
phylum, Reichb. Ie. FI. Germ. xiii. t. 470. C. acuminata, Lindl. in Wall. 
Cat.7405 ; Gen. & Sp. Orchid. l. c.; Wight Ic. t. 1721 ; Dene. in Jacquem. Voy. 
Bit. 164, t. 104. 
Tome eg HIMALAYA ; alt. 6-12,000 ft., from Kashmir to Bhotan.—DISTRIB. 
trope, Western Siberia, and from Afghanistan to Northern Africa. 
tstock creeping ; stem 6-18 in. Leaves lower lanceolate or oblong, acute or 
$5 upper linear. Raceme laxly 6-20-fld., glabrous; bracts ovate, acute; flowers 
ob in. ‘ong, white or lip spotted with yellow ; sepals lanceolate, acute ; petals elliptic, 
tuse; ridges of lip crested. 
SPECIES UNKNOWN TO ME. 
C. Tuomsont, Reichb, Jf. in Linnea, xli. 54; a span high, leaves (of C. grandiflora) 
"Mg acute, upper linear-lanceolate, bracts linear-lanceolate, lower much longer 
the flowers, sepals oblong-ligulate acute, petals narrower, lip expanded at the 
into a very short conical sac trifid, side lobes broadly ligulate crenulate, midlobe 
ates verse With a deflexed apiculus, keels two in theentire base lamellate, with 
0. Pigs papilla between the posticous laciniw.—Sikkim, T. Thomson., 1857.— 
dini ʻata, Boiss, Held, differs in the shorter hypochile with short quite entire 
Wie the median nerves of the epichile keeled to the tip, in the keels not 
from Kei and in the conico.cylindrie spur being thrice as long.—(The above is 
à C Sec I have examined no Cephalanthera answering to the descrip- 
Reichenboct , am informed by King, is there any in the Calcutta Herbarium, whence 
ch’s specimens must have been sent to him.) 
103. BPIPACTIS, Br. 
itr 3 leafy erect herbs. Leaves sessile, plaited. Flowers racemose, 
létyed *; Practs long, leafy. Sepals and petals broad, acuminate, strongly- 
Seat 52, Sessile on the base of the column; hypochile concave or 
anticons ? Pichile contracted at the base, entire. Column short; stigma 
ini ; rostellum broad, prominent ; anther erect, obtuse, cells contiguous ; 
mispherg, Partite, gland globose.—Species 8 or 10, of the temperate N. 
Lindley (; 
-aey (in Jou ; © ae) 2. 33 Tr he Himalayan 
Species to rn. Linn. Soc. i. 172) is disposed to refer all the Himalay 
States of E, latifolia, in which Í do not concur. 
l. ` 
deeg latifolia, Swartz in Act. Holm. 1800, 232; flowers subsecund 
Morter ovat nearly so, lip short, hypochile subglobose, epichile as long or 
Boiss, pj'5e.cordate, base with 2 calli. Lindl. Gen. & Sp.. Orchid. 461; 
tabya, LAT V. 87; Reichb. Te. Fl. Germ. xiii, t. 134-136. E. macro- 
Dalhousie. Wight Te o 7404; E. consimilis, Don Prodr. 28. E. 
M 
Kei? iH IMALAYA, from Kashmir, alt. 6500-10,000 ft. to Sikkim, alt. 
Stem wet ^ ISTRIB, Europe, N. Africa, N. Asia to Japan. 
Eier to oy te Stout, puberulous above. Leaves 3-5 by 2-8 in., usually from 
H in, diam ate-lanceolate rarely lanceolate, often with ciliolate margins, flowers 
"hite op purpl in often crowded bractate racemes green variegated with yellow 
Var, raven Weeer very short. , a Pd 
la ? Smaller, leaves elliptic acute, raceme dense-fld., flowers à in. 
h. Orig as P * greenish white, E, herbacen, Lindl. in Royle Ill. 868; Gen. § 
=h estern Himalaya, 
