CXXV, ORCHIDACE.i;. 707 



1. Pogonia plicata, Lindl. Gen. ^ Sp. Orchid. (1840) p. 415. 

 Tuber globose, | in. in diam. or less. Leaf dark green mottled with 

 purplish-brown, lying flat on the ground and appearing after the flowers 

 have withered, 2-4 in. long and nearly as broad as long, broadly ovate 

 or suborbicular, obtuse, acute or shortly acuminate, many-nerved from 

 a cordate base ; petioles f-2| in. long. Scape 3-6 in. long with 2 or 3 

 tubular sheaths with subacute dilated apices. Flowers 2 or 3 ; floral 

 bract ^ in. long, ovate, acute. Sepals |- by -^-^ in., lineai'-lanceolate, 

 acuminate, yellowish-green. Petals like the sepals and similarly colored. 

 Lip lilac with a green spot at the base and a yellow line along the 

 thickened part of the midrib, less than | in. long, convolute and 

 embracing the column, entire except the minutely emarginate apex, the 

 midrib thickened and callus-like for more than half its length, the base 

 sliglitly saccate. Column narrowed in the lower half, the upper portion 

 clavate ; pollinia 4, narrowly oblong, M. B. I. v. 6, p. 119 ; King & 

 Pantling, in Ann. Eoy. Bot. Gard. Calc. v. 8 (1898) p. 268, t. 358 ; 

 Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (1899) p. 519 ; Prain, Beng. PI. 

 p. 1025. ? Pogonia JIabeUiformis, Dalz. & Gibs. Bo. PI. (1861) p. 270 

 {not of Lindl.). — Flowers : June. 



Konkan: Stocks \, Law \ Deccan : Lanoli, Woodrowl; Khandala, Cbo^-e ! — Distrib. 

 India (Bengal, W. Peninsula). 



2. Pogonia carinata, Lindl. Gen. Sf Sp. Orchid. (1840) p. 414. 

 Leaf 1|-2| in. in diam., orbicular, cuspidate, 7-9-nerved, glabrous, base 

 broadly cordate, the central part cuneate ; petioles 1-3 in. long. 

 Flowers numerous, in racemes measuring with the stems 6-12 in. long ; 

 bracts linear, acute, | in. long. Sepals pale-green, i in. long, oblong- 

 lanceotate, acuminate, nerved. Petals like the sepals in form and color. 

 Lip with purple veins and spots on a pale greenish-yellow ground, f in. 

 long, not saccate at the base, 3-lobed about the middle; side lobes y^g in. 

 long, rounded ; midlobe ^ in. long, ovate-oblong, subobtuse, crenulate. 

 Fl. B. I. V. 6, p. 121 ; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 270 ; Prain, Beng. PI. p. 1026. 

 Pogonia fiahellif or mis, Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (1899) p. 519. 

 Epipactis carinata, Eoxb. Fl. Ind. v. 3 (1832) p. 454 ; Grab. Cat. p. 205. — 

 Flowers : May-June. 



Konkan: Stocks'., Law I Deccan: Lanoli, Woodrow. S. M. Country: near 

 Dharwar, Law ex Stocks, 68 ! Kanaka : Lcnv \ — Distrib. India (Bengal, W. Peninsula). 



26. SPIRANTHES, Eich. 



Terrestrial leafy herbs with tuberous or fibrous roots. Leaves linear 

 (in the Indian species). Flowers small, secund, on a twisted erect spike. 

 Sepals subequal, free or sometimes cohering with the petals to form an 

 erect hood; lateral pair gibbons at the base. Petals like the dorsal 

 sepal. Lip erect, entire or 3-lobed, the base concave but neither saccate 

 nor spurred ; disk bearing lamellfe or calli. Column short, terete ; 

 stigma single, broad, anticous ; rostellum erect, obtuse, or elongate and 

 2-fid ; anther erect, 2-celled ; pollinia 4, united in pairs, sessile on a 

 small gland. — Distrib. Species about 80, temperate and tropical. 



1. Spiranthes australis, Lindl. in Bot. Reg. v. 10 (1824) 

 sub t. 823. Whole plant 6-18 in. high ; stem stout or slender; roots 

 consisting of elongate fleshy white cylindric or almost tuberous fibres. 



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