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Plants of the Punjab. 
Herss, UNBRANCHED, WITH ALTERNATE ExsTIPULATE SimpLE LBAVEs, 
Cypripedium 
cordigerum, 
Lady’s Slipper, 
ORCHIDACES. 
BeBe vis 170. 
Himalaya, 
9-11,000 ft. 
Masohbra, Mahasu, 
Fagu, Narkanda 
(Collett). 
Jaku, 
Kashmir. 
Rosceea alpina, 
SCITAMINES. 
BBs 1. as 207. 
Himalaya, 
6-11,000 ft. 
Simla (Collett). 
Kashmir. 
Rosceea procera, 
ScITAMINER. 
EP Bele vie 07: 
Himalaya, 
east of the Sutlej, 
7-10,000 ft. 
Simla, Mahasu, 
(Collett), 
PETALS UNITED. 
STAMENS NONE. 
ANTHER ONE. 
sepals, recurved, lip superior, sessile on the base of the 
column, erect, hoof-like, margins turned back, spurs 2, 
pointing downwards, slender, rarely stout, about as long 
as the ovary, column short with 2 ear-like projections, 
stigma large, concave. 
ANTHERS TWO. 
medium size, perennial, smooth, root fibrous, stem 
12-24 in., leafy ; leaves 5 by 3 in., ovate or lanceolate, 
short- or long- pointed, plaited ; flower one, green and white, 
3 in. across, terminal bracts 1-4 in., leaf-lke, sepals green, 
longer than the lip, ovate-lanceolate, long-pomted, two 
lateral united under the lip, the third erect, above it, petais 
sreen or white, spreading, lanceolate, lip 1-1} in., white, 
sessile, forming an oval inflated open-mouthed pouch, 
column yellow, short, turned over, almost shutting the 
posterior part of the mouth, terminating in a shield-like 
projection, anthers 2, round, on each side of the base 
of the column ; capsule 14 in., erect, club-shaped. 
STAMEN ONE. 
small, smooth, stem 4-8 in., leafy, slender; leaves 
2 to 4, 8-6 in., oblong-lanceolate, much enlarged 
after flowering, sessile; flowers 1 in. long, dark purple, 
in a terminal few-flowered spike, only one flower appearing 
at a time, calyx tube slit on one side, 2-toothed, corolla 
tube much longer than the calyx, upper lobe 4-2 in. diam., 
orbicular, slightly concave, lateral lobes linear-oblong, 
8 petal-like staminodes within the corolla, the two 
lateral erect, the lower 3-3 in. long, 2-lobed, stamen one, 
short, grooved, inserted on the mouth of the corolla tube, 
produced at the base in a fork; capsule oblong-ovoid, 
opening by 8 valves, seeds many, small. 
medium size, smooth, stem 12-24 in., stout, leaves 
8 t+0 6, 6 by 14 in., lanceolate, flowers several, 24 in. 
long, lilac, in terminal spikes, only one flower appear- 
ing at a time, corolla tube hardly longer than the calyx, 
upper lobe 12 in. long, margin turned in., forming a narrow 
flattened, pointed hood, lateral lobes limear-lanceolate, 
lower staminode 12 by 14 in., almost 3-lobed, spreading, 
notched at the tip ; for other characters see the last species, 
