Tas, 4821, 
EPIPOGON GMELINI. 
Gmelin’s Epipogon. 
Nat. Ord. OncHipE®.—GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 
Gen. Char. Flores resupinati, pedunculis brevibus non contortis sed bracteatis 
insidentes. Perianthit lacinie exteriores subzequales, patentes ; dus interiores 
exterioribus similes. Labellum erectum (superum) trilobum, lobis lateralibus 
parvis patentibus, lobo terminali maximo, integerrimo, concavo et punctis elevatis 
notato, basi in calcar inflatum et adscendens desinens. Gynostemium oblongum, 
rectum, supra stigma in androclinium magnum, profundum et apice truncatim 
dilatatum. Anthera stipitata sed androclinio inserta, subrotunda, gibba, antice 
mucronulata, bilocularis, loculis longitudinaliter dehiscentibus. Pollinaria duo, 
oblonga, caudiculata, caudiculis supra basin pollinariis affixis, basi junctis, sub 
anthesi reflexis et proscolle solute adglutinatis. Pollen sectile. Staminodia 
obsoleta. Proscolla magna cordata, emarginature androclinii supra stigma ad- 
herens. Stigma valde prominens, transversim ellipticum. Germen non con- 
tortum, ovatum, uniloculare, multiovulatum, ovulis spermophoris tribus parietali- 
_ bus affixis. Fred. Nees. 
Epreogon Gmelini. Ledeb. Fl. Ross. v. 4. p. 77. 
Erreocum Gmelini. “ Z. C. Richard, de Orchid. Europ, Annot. p. 36.” 
Ervreocium Gmelini. Lindl. Gen. et Sp. Orchid. p. 383. Fred. Nees, Gen. Plant. 
Germ. cum Ie. 
Eprpeoerum aphyllum. Reichenb. Fl. Excurs. p. 135. 
Lrmoporum Epipogium. Sw. Nov. Act. Ups. v. 6. p. 80. 
Saryrtum Epipogium. Linn. Syst. Veget. p. 676. Jacq. Fl. Austr. t. 84. 
Epreocum. Gmel. Fl. Sib. v. 1. p. 22. tab. 2. f. 2. 
Even upon the continent of Europe, Dr. Fred. Nees calls this 
a “planta rarissima ;” and it is singularly gratifymg to us that 
the first figure of it published in this country, should be from a 
specimen, an undoubted native of England. It was discovered 
on the 9th of September of this year (1854), as related in the 
‘Journal of Botany’ for October, by Mrs. Anderton Smith, the 
lady of the Rev. Anderton Smith, at Tedstone Delamere, Here- 
fordshire. “All the specimens were found at the foot of a very 
steep woody bank, close to a brook ; the soil very wet and stiff. 
DECEMBER lst, 1854. 
