2 24 Or chides. [Pogonia. 



at the base of the column, entire, or lobed at the base, spur o; 

 column rather long, arched, truncate, stigmatic disk anticous 

 below the tip; anth. terminal, suberect, orbicular, operculate, 

 persistent, 2-cellcd, cells contiguous, pollinia 4, oblong, united 

 in pairs, granular, without strap or gland. — Sp. 5 or 6; 4 in 

 Fl. B. Ind. 



A. montana, Rchb. f. in Litmcca, xli. 57 (1877). 



Apaturia 7no?iiana, Thw. Enum. 301 (non Lindl.). C. P. 3189. 



Fl. B. Ind. vi. 116. Ann. Bot. Gard. Calcutt. viii. t. 349. 



Quite glabrous; stem 2-3 ft. high, purplish, stout or 

 slender, naked, base clothed with oblong scales ^-\ in. long 

 and broad ; roots vermiform, 2-3 in. long, as thick as the 

 rootstock; raceme 4-8 in., lax-fld.; bracts linear-lanceolate, 

 acute or obtuse, membranous, shorter than the ov., reflexed, 

 pale, persistent; ov. with the spreading pedicel f-i in.; sep. 

 |-| in. long, linear-oblong, obtuse, dorsal arching, lateral 

 adnate to the base of the lip; pet. narrower than the sep., 

 subfalcate; lip with a small two-lobed, saccate, hypochilc, the 

 lobes triangular, erect, and a large, ovate, veined, naked, 

 2-lobed epichile, attached to the hypochile by a very narrow 

 neck, with 2 small calli at the juncture; column slightly 

 swollen at the truncate top, rostellum o; anth. attached by a 

 broad base, persistent; fr. i in. long, oblong-fusiform, pedicel 

 slender. 



Moist low country below 2000 ft.; rare. Ambagamuwa; near Ratna- 

 pura; Hewesse. Fl. Veb., April, August; pale lemon-yellow, tinged, as 

 is the whole plant, with purple. 



Also in Sikkim Himalaya. 



I have never met with this curious plant, which appears to be sapro- 

 phyte or root parasite. Apaturia vwniana of Lindley, to which Thw. 

 refers this, is a very different plant {Pachystoma seiiile). — Trimen. 



57. POGONIA, Griff. 

 Terrestrial, tuberous, scapigerous herbs, leafing after flg. ; 

 1. usually solitary, long-petioled, broad, membranous, plaited, 

 flabellately veined ; fl. solitary or racemed, horizontal or 

 pendulous; sep. and pet. subequal, connivent or widely 

 spreading; lip inferior, inserted at the base of the column, 

 spurred or saccate at the base, entire or three-lobed, disk 

 without calli or crests; column long, slender, top clavate, 

 rounded or truncate, stigmatic surface anticous ; anth. ter- 

 minal, horizontal, imperfectly 2-celled, pollinia 2, granular, 

 entire or cleft, without gland or caudicle. — Sp. about 40; lO 

 in Fl. B. Ind. 



