Hacqutitia Epipactis has long been in cultivation in Kew, 

 flowering in March, but of its introduction there is no 

 record. It is not included in Alton's " Hortus Kewensis " 

 (1811), nor in more recent catalogues of garden plants. 



Descr. — A perennial-rooted, quite glabrous, scapigerous 

 herb. Rootstoch elongate, praamorse, cylindric, rugose, 

 copiously rooting ; crown emitting leaves and scapes, the 

 bases of which are clothed with short scales. Leaves on 

 slender, often red petioles, three to six inches long, 

 palmately tripartite, circular in outline, and two to four 

 inches in diameter, bright green ; segments shortly lobed 

 and sharply serrulate, lateral orbicular, subflabellately 

 triangular, unequally five- or more-lobed, formed of two 

 connate segment ; mid-segments much narrower, cunei- 

 form three to five-lobed. Scapes two or more, angular, 

 about as long and slender as the petioles. Umbels one to 

 two inches in diameter, of a small group of yellow flowers, 

 surrounded by an involucre of five to ten stellately spread- 

 ing, oblong, strongly serrate, green, herbaceous bracts. 

 Flowers minute, crowded on a small receptacle, pedicelled 

 males and sessile hermaphrodite intermixed. Calyx-teeth 

 acuminate. Petals erect, oblong, inflected for two-thirds 

 of their length. Stamens about as long as the petals. 

 Fruit nearly terete, grooved at the commissure ; carpels 

 with five low ridges, each with a solitary canal. Styles 

 long, slender, recurved. — J. D. H. 



Fig. 1, Portion of umbel ; 2, Mower ; 3, petal ; 4, fruit ; 5, mericarp seen from 

 the ventral face ; 6, transverse section of mericarp : — All enlarged. 



