Plants of the Punjab. 489 
Herss, UNBRANCHED, WITH ALTERNATE ExstipuLATE SimpLE LEAVES. 
Cephalanthera 
ensifolia, 
Narrow Helleborine, 
ORCHIDACER. 
BD. Vis L258. 
Himalaya, 
6-12,000 ft. 
Mahasu, Fagu, 
Matiana in forests 
(Collett). 
Narkanda, Jaku, 
Kashmir, 
Epipactis latifolia, 
Broad Epipactis, 
ORCHIDACER, 
FP. Be Fs vi..1 95. 
Himalaya, 
6-10,000 ft. - 
Simla, Jaku 
(Collett). 
Dalhousie. 
Epipactis consimilis, 
ORCHIDACEA, 
F. B. I. vi. 126. 
Himalaya, 
3-5,000 ft. 
Sutlej Valley 
(Collett). 
Peshawar, Kashmir, 
Epipactis Royleana, 
ORCHIDACE. 
H. B. Tove ae, 
Himalaya, 
7-8,000 ft. 
Kashmir, 
PETALS UNITED. 
STAMENS NONE. 
ANTHER ONE, 
small to medium size, perennial, nearly or quite 
smooth, rootstock creeping, fibres many, long, thick, stem 
6-18 in., grooved, leafy, lower part often has long sheath- 
ing scales; leaves 2-6 in., sessile, short-pointed, folded, 
lower lanceolate, upper almost linear-lanceolate ; flowers 
2-4 In. long, white or lip spotted yellow, almost erect, bracts 
ovate, upper ones smaller than the ovaries, lower 
usually long, sepals and petals 3-3 in. long, tips converg- 
ing, sepals lanceolate, short-pointed, petals ovate, blunt, 
lip erect, deeply 8-lobed, base hollow, embracing the base 
of the column sido-lobes erect, rounded, mid-lobe broadly 
triangular, ridged and marked with a yellow spot, tip 
bluntly toothed, recurved, spur none, anther terminal, 
stigma broad, below the anther; capsule erect. 
medium size to large, perennial, rootstock creeping, 
fibrous, stem 12-36 in., stout, slightly velvety above, leafy , 
leaves 23-6 by 2-3 in., stem-clasping, lower orbicular, 
upper ovate-lanceolate, 4 by 2 in.; flowers + in. diam., 
dingy purple, crowded, bracts leafy, lanceolate, short- 
pointed, lower 2-23 in., upper 3-1 in., sepals and petals 
% in., lanceolate, short-pointed, ultimately spreading, 
smooth or nearly so, lip } in. long, jointed to the base of 
the column, base bowl-shaped, margins rounded, terminal 
part shorter, flat, triangular with 2 protuberances at the 
base, margins crumpled, almost toothed, spur none, column 
short, anther terminal, lobes 4, above the broad stigma. 
stem 12-24 in., slender, leaves 6 by 1} in. lanceolate, 
narrow, long-pointed, flowers 1 in. diam., orange-green, 
sometimes spotted, distant, sepals and petals 4 in, 
velvety, lip } in., base narrow, boat-shaped, terminal part 
3-lobed, side-lobes turned up, tip lanceolate, spreading ; 
for other characters see the last species, 
like the last species, but more robust, lower leaves 
3 by 1% in., orbicular, upper lanceolate, flowers 1 in. diam., 
red with yellow centre, lip longer than the Sepals. 
