126 Cem, ORCHIDEZ. (J. D. Hooker.) [ Epipactis. 
Var. Thomsoni ; small, slender, leaves lanceolate recurved margins quite glabrous, 
raceme lax-fld., flowers 1 in. diam. quite glabrous. E. macrostachya, Wight Ic. t. 
1722 (not of Lindl.)— Western Tibet, alt. 10—11,000 ft., Thomson.—Wight does not 
know the origin of his specimen, which is a very bad one. 2v 
Var. intrusa ; very: slender, leaves few small, flowers few very distant, epichile 
without calli. E. intrusa, Lindl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. i. 175.—Sikkim, alt. 11,000 
ft., J. D. H. This is hardly more than a starved state of E. latifolia, with which it 
grew. 
2. E. consimilis, Wall. Cat. 7403 (not of Don); raceme lax-fid., flowers 
large pubescent or tomentose, lip nearly as long as the sepals, hypochile 
narrow oblong, epichile longer lanceolate inflexed at the base then re- 
curved. E. veratrifolia, Boiss. & Hohen. Diagn. Ser. 1, xiii. 11; Boiss. Fl. 
Orient. v. 87. Lindl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. i. 174. E. amoena, Herb. Ham. 
WESTERN TEMPERATE HIMALAYA; from Peshawur and Kashmir to Nepal.— 
DISTRIB. westward to Syria. 
Stem 1-2 ft., rather slender, pubescent above. Leaves 4-7 in., lanceolate, 
acuminate, Raceme lax-fld.; bracts long, rarely short; flowers 1-1} in. diam, 
distant, long-pedicelled, pubescent or ovary- tomentose, greenish; column much 
longer than in E. /latifolia.—Lindley is no doubt right in referring Don's E. con- 
similis to E. latifolia, A drawing by Jerdon of a plant grown on limestone rocks, 
overhanging water at Saugor in Malwah closely resembles this. 
3. E. Royleana, Lindl. in Royle Ill. 368; Gen. & Sp. Orchid. 461; 
in Journ. Linn. Soc. 1.174; raceme lax-fld. puberulous, hypochile large sac- 
cate very much broader than the ovate or ovate-lanceolate epichile. 
americana, Lindl. in Ann. Sc. Nat. iv. 385; Gen & Sp. Orchid. 462. 
gigantea, Dougl. mss. in Hook. Fl. Bot. Am.ii. 290, t. 209. Cephalanthera 
Royleana, Regel in Act. Hort. Petrop. vi. 490 ; Boiss. Fl. Orient. v. 89. 
TEMPERATE HIMALAYA ; from Kashmir, alt. 7000 ft. to Sikkim, alt. 8-12,000 
ft.—DisTRIB. Samarcand ? N. America. . 
Stem 1-2 ft. Leaves from lanceolate to orbicular, 4—7 by 1-1} in., margins 
eciliolate. Raceme 6-10 in.; flowers distant, 1 in. diam., green with a yellowish 
(or reddish ?) lip; bracts long, lanceolate.—The very broad strongly many-nerv 
hypochile, broader than long, with rounded erect sides, are unlike any other species 
but E. americana, which I suspect is the same, and if so, the latter is the earliest 
name. Lindley’s description is taken from a very bad specimen, in which the 
epichile is constricted in the middle, probably by accident, as this organ contracts 
much in drying. Regel cites Lindley’s Epip. Royleana for his Ceph. Royleana, and 
gives Samarcand as a locality. 
Tribe IV. OrpHrypEx. (See Vol. v. p. 673.) 
104. ORCHIS, Linn. 
Terrestrial erect leafy herbs, with entire oblong or palmately lobed 
tubers. Leaves sheathing, not plicate. Flowers racemed or spicate. Sepa 
free, subequal, lateral spreading, or conniviug in a hood with the petals and 
dorsal. Petals usually smaller. Lip shortly adnate to the column 
spreading or pendulous, spurred, entire or 3-lobed. Column very shorts 
rostellum cupular or saccate; anther adnate to the face of the column: 
cells parallel or converging below; pollinia 2, caudicles adnate to 1 oF 
glands, which are concealed in one pouch formed by the rostellum.— Species 
about 80, of north temperate regions, and the Mascarene Islands. 
With the exception of O. latifolia, I do not feel confident that the species here 
