650 
Neottia listeroides, 
ORCHIDACEA. 
Hiss a. vi, 4 03. 
Himalaya, 
5-9,000 ft. 
Simla, in forest 
(Collett). 
Jaku, Kashmir. 
Gastrodia 
orobanchoides, 
ORCHIDACE. 
is, A. wa. 22; 
Himalaya, 
7-8,000 ft. 
Epipogum aphyllum, 
Leafless Epipogum, 
ORCHIDACER. 
H. BT, vi. 124, 
Himalaya, 
6-8,000 ft. 
Fagu, the Chor, in 
forest (Collett), 
Plants of the Punjab. 
LEAFLESS PLAN'S, 
HERBS. 
PETALS UNITED. 
perennial, erect, leafless, brown, roots forming a 
dense mass of fleshy fibres growing on rotting vegetation 
in shade, stem unbranched with the raceme 8-14 in. high, 
sheathed, stout or slender, stiff, sheaths 3-4, loose ; flowers 
4 in. red or brown-green in a loose flowered velvety raceme, 
6-12 in., bracts 4-3 in., ovate-lanceolate, as long as or longer 
than the ovary, sepals 3, ovate-lanceolate, concave, erect, 
then spreading, petals 3, smaller, linear, blunt, then spread- 
ing, lip hanging from the base of the column, 2-3 times-as 
long as the sepals, linear, oblong, tip broad, 2-lobed, mid- 
rib broad, dark green, column short, incurved, prolonged 
into a pointed process stretching over the stigma, 2 pairs 
of pollen masses hanging from the gland of the rostellum ; 
capsule 4 in. lons, erect, narrowed at both ends, seeds 
. minute. 
perennial, erect, leafless, yellowish-brown, root a 
large oblong ringed tuber, parasitic on roots, stem 10-24 
in., stout, sheaths short, loose ; flowers 4-3 in., yellow, in a 
many-flowered loose raceme, bracts nearly as dong as the 
flowers, oblong, short-pomted, sepals and petals united 
into a 5-lobed tube, split in front, lip short, united below 
to the column and the sepals and petals ovate recurved, 
column erect, nearly as long as the tube, narrowiy 2-winged, 
stigma prominent, anther terminal, pollen masses 2 ; capsule 
2 in., erect, swollen. 
perennial, leafless, rare, grows on decaying leaves, 
only found in Herefordshire in Britain and there on two 
occasions, rootstock creeping, tuberous above, branches 
short, fleshy, stem 4-8 in., stout, erect, sheathing, sheaths 
1-2, short, blunt ; flowers 3 in., yellow pink in a 3-6 flower- 
ed terminal raceme, bracts large, shorter than the flowers, 
raceme thin, oblong, sepals 4-3-in., narrowly lanceolate, 
petals are like in size and shape to the sepals, lip above, 
joined to the base of the column, oblong, whitish with 
red glandular warts, 38-lobed, middle much the largest, 
pointed, recurved, concave, spur large, equal to the lip, 
blunt, column short, anther thickened, 2-celled, terminal, 
pollen masses 2, connected by slender tails to a triangular 
gland on the column ; capsule 8-valyed, seeds very many, 
minute. | 
