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Eprractis. ] ORCHIDACER 217 
2.P.carinata, Lindl. Gen. & Spec Orch. 414; F. B. L. vi, 
(121; Prain Beng. Pl. 1026 ; Duthie Ann. R. Bot. Gard. Cale. ix, 
part 2, 159, t. 124; Cooke Fl. Bomb, ii, 707. Epipactis carinata, 
Roxb, Fl. Ind. iii, 454. 
Tubers globose or obovate, 4-} in. in diam., annulated and warted. 
Leaf 1}-2} in. wide, ovate, acute or cuspidate, cordate or cuneate at 
the base, 7-9-nerved, glabrous; petiole 1-2 in. long, sheathed at 
the base. Flowering stem up to 1 ft. high, bearing 3 or 4 loose 
tubular acute or acuminate sheaths. Raceme laxly flowered; floral 
bracts twice as long as the stalked ovary, erect lanceolate, acumi- 
nate, 5-nerved. Flowers about 1 in. loug. Sepals and petals, sub- 
equal, spreading, linear-lanceolate, acuminate, green. Lip #? in. 
long, straight, trough-shaped, not saccate at the base, 3-lobed above 
the middle, white tinged with yellowish green and with conspicuous 
pink-coloured veins usually bifurcating within the margin ; upper 
surface hairy especially on the ridges and veins; side-lobes erect, 
margins entire, terminal lobe not deflexed, ovate, bluntly acuminate, 
its margin irregularly cremulate. Column } in., slightly curved, 
dilated at the apex. Anther triangular, beaked in front. 
Sub-Himalayan tracts of Rohilkhand and North Oudh, in the districts 
of Pilibhit, Bahraich and Gonda. Flowers in May, the" leaves appear- 
ing about one month later. DistRIB.; Ramganga valley in Kumaon 
(T. Thomson) ; common in Bengal and eastwards to Burma; also 
in the Bombay Pres. and southwards to S. India. 
22, EPIPACTIS, Andans. ; Fl. Brit. Ind. vi, 125. 
Terrestrial herbs with fibrous roots and leafy stems. Leaves 
sessile, plicate. Flowers in racemes, drooping ; floral bracts elong- 
ating and often leaf-like. Sepals and petals broadly lanceolate, 
acuminate, strongly nerved. Jip adnate to the base of column, 
distinctly divided into hypochile and epichile ; hypochile much 
deflexed, concave or saccate, jointed to the epichile at a right 
angle, both with entire edges, Column short ; stigma large, anti- 
cous; rostellum broad, prominent. Anthers erect, obtuse, its 
cells contiguous ; pollinia 2, bipartite, very narrow. Species about 
12, in the North Temp. Hemisphere. 
E. consimilis, Wall. Cat. 7043 (not of Don); F. B. I. vi, 126; 
K. &. P. Ann, R. Bot. Gard, Calc. viii, 272, t. 364; Duthie id, ix, 
part 2, 161; Collett Fl. Siml. 498. 
