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ropean specimens, but is evidently the same. The plant found by 

 Dr. Thomson in Western Thibet has a thinner raceme, and a 

 smaller lip much compressed with a pair of large calli at the base 

 of the epichil ; the ovary, moreover, is perfectly smooth, as in 

 what has been called Epipactis Bhyllanthus, but I do not think, in 

 so variable a species, such characters have any distinctive value. 

 B. herbacea is not distinct from the B. viridiflora of European 

 botanists. 



13. E. INTETJSA ; habitu E. latifolia valde attenuate folio unico parvo cuique 

 cauli, floribusque longe distantibus, hypochilio subtus intruso, epichilio 

 ovato apiculato trinervi ecalloso. 



Sikkim, at 11,000 feet, J. D. S. (323 mixed with JE. latifolia). 



This seems to be something more than an attenuated starved 

 state of B. latifolia, (with which it is mixed in Dr. Hooker's col- 

 lections,) on account of the hypochil being pushed upwards as it 

 were from below, so as to be convex in the inside, and the epichil 

 having no calli and no venules, but only three well-defined veins 

 ending in a little distinct point. 



V. Cephalantheba, L. G. Richard. 



14. C. ensifolia, L. C. Richard. 



C. acuminata, I/indl. Gen. et Sp. Orch. p. 412 ; Wight, Ic. 1. 1721. 



Secunda Devee, near Mussooree ; Dadoo-ka-Taola, in Gurhwal ; HVW. Hima- 

 layas generally to the height of 5000-10,000 feet, J. D. S. Sr T. T. (321) ; 

 Bootan, near Panga, in oak and fir woods at 7500 feet, Griffith ; in pine 

 and oak woods under the mountain Yari-Ki-teibi, Jacquemont (651). 



I am persuaded that the Indian Cephalantheras all belong to 

 one and the same species, that one being the common European 

 C. ensifolia. The specimens before me differ in the length and 

 breadth of their leaves and in the denseness of their inflorescence ; 

 perhaps, too, in the form of the epichilium, a point hard to deter- 

 mine when dried. The Bootan specimen is the smallest. It has 

 already been found in the country beyond Caucasus according 

 to Boichenbach fil. I have seen no specimen with the long leafy 

 bracts which Dr. Wight's artist has represented ; such a state is 

 only to be found occasionally associated with the lowest flower. 



VI. Listeea, B. Brown. 



15. L. pinetoeitm ; foliis cordato-subrotundis acutis, rachi flexuosd tomen- 

 tosa, bracteis adpressis ovarii longitudine, floribus subsessilibus, labello 

 maximo obovato bilobo, columna elongata. * 



Sikkim, 10,000-11,000 feet, near Lachen in pine woods, J. D. H. (355) 



Flowers pale green, the largest in the genus. Most like L. con- 



