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Tas. 6671. 
POGON ITA GamMInANa. 
Native of Northern India. 
Nat. Ord. OncH1pEm.—Tribe Nzorrizx. 
Genus Pogonta, Juss. ; (Benth. et Hook.f. Gen. Pl. vol. iii. p- 615, ined.) 
Pogonta (Nervilia) Gammieana; glaberrima, folio late rotundato-cordato acumi- 
nato multinervio margine obscure undulato supra lete viridi subtus pallido, 
juniore plicato inter nervos seriatim sublacunoso, scapo robusto pauci- 
vaginato, racemo 6-10-Horo, bracteis linearibus floribus pendulis brevioribus, 
sepalis petalisque elliptico-lanceolatis acuminatis pallide lilacinis v. carneis, 
labello elongato sepalis sequilongo v. longiore albo-virescente lobis lateralibus 
parvis inflexis terminali rotundato-ovato reticulatim venoso crispato piloso, 
ovario profunde 6-sulcato. 
Tubers of this plant were received through the Royal 
Botanic Garden of Calcutta under the name of Pogonia 
Jlabelliformis, from Mr. Gammie, of the Sikkim Cinchona 
Plantations ; it however differs entirely from that plant in 
the size, colour, and broad form of the sepals and petals, 
and in the length of the lip, which equals or exceeds the 
rest of the perianth. I have a flowering specimen of 
apparently the same species, collected by myself in hot 
valleys below Darjeeling in 1847; and another, also 
flowering only, collected in Kumaon, in the Western 
Himalaya, at Bagesar, 3500 feet above the sea, by Strachey 
and Winterbottom ; and which is the “ Eulophia No. 19” 
of their Herbarium. 
The genus Pogonia is not a small one in India ; and 
there are probably a dozen species in the Himalaya, 
Bengal, and the two Peninsulas; but owing to the delicate 
nature of their flowers, and to the fact that many of the 
Specimens we possess are either flowerless or leafless, it is 
impossible to determine them specifically from dried spe- 
cimens. They should be drawn and analyzed in a fresh 
State, to provide material for accurate comparison and 
FEBRUARY Ist, 1883, 
