454 GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. Epipactis. 
falcate wing of the lip. Lid, pollen and stigma as in the 
genus. 
2. E. carinata, Roxb. 
Root, a single simple, sub-globular, white bulb. Leaf ra- 
dical, solitary, cordate, smooth, seven-nerved, Scape many- 
flowered. Lip rhombiform, sub-trilobate; middle lobe half 
the length of the whole, and crenate. Capsules oval, six- 
winged. 
A native of Bengal ; m the Botanic garden it is indigenous 
amongst grass, and flowers in April, the dryest and hottest 
month of the year, at which period the plants are destitute of 
leaves, but they appear in May when the flowers have 
withered. 
Root, a single, white, site pelkacld taber, exactly hike that 
of the former, (A. juliana) but larger. Leaves radical, a’ 
single one springing from each bulb,about a month after the: 
flowers have decayed, they are petioled, cordate, smooth, 
entire, of an uniform green on both sides, about seven-nerv- 
ed ; length and breadth rather above two inches. Scape 
erect, invested in a few simple sheaths; about six or eight: 
inches high, and void of pubescence. Flowers several, pe- 
duncled, scattered round the upper part of the scape, large, 
_ drooping. Bractes ensiform, one under the insertion of each 
— and fully as long as it and the germ together, 
= . Petals five, equal, -ehithacorel; linear-lanceolar, ex- 
-pandin: a flay tet, of a uniform pale green, withering. Lip 
| rhombiform, at the middle on each side a deeper sinus, mak-: 
ing the whole appear somewhat three-lobed, before these the 
margins are deeply and irregularly crenate, on the inside con- 
cave, and somewhat woolly, with purple veins, and spots on 
a pale greenish Rae leaps —— meee 
Germ oval, : 
3. E. phchier Roxb: gina iia 
Bulb spherical, Scape pie twa te eth flo 1 a a 
