454 GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. Epipactis. 



falcate wing of the lip. Lid, pollen and stigma as in the 

 genus. 



2. E. carinata. Roxh. 



Root, a single simple, sub-globular, white bulb. Leo/' 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 ; in 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, sub-pellucid tuber, exactly like that 

 of the former, (A. Juliana) but larger. Leayes 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 iew simple sheaths ; about six or eight 

 inches high, and void of pubescence. Floioers several, pe- 

 duncled, scattered round the upper part of the scape, large, 

 drooping. Bractes ensiform, one under the insertion of each 

 peduncle, and fully as long as it and the germ together, 

 smooth. Petals five, equal, unilateral, linear-lanceolar, ex- 

 panding, very acute, 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 yellow ground. Column as in the genus. 

 Germ oval. 



3. E. plicata. Roxb. 



Bulb spherical. Scape from two to three-flowered. Leaves 



