ORCHIDACE®.? ° Ii 
A herb with a coral-like rootstock producing a sheathed leafless 
stem. Flowers large, in a lax raceme, yellow with a white lip, with 
purple tubercles. . 
This genus owes the origin of its name to the Greek words éxé, up, and twywy, a 
beard, from the crested labellum of the flowers being turned upwards. 
SPECIES 1I—EPIPOGUM* APHYLLUM. Sw. 
Pirate MCCCCLXXXVI. 
Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ. et Hely. Vol. XT. Tab. CCCCLXVIII. 
Epipogum Gmelini, Rich. Hook. & Arn. Brit. Fl. ed. viti. p. 432. Hook. in Bot, 
Mag. No. 4821. Koch, Syn. Fl. Germ. et Helv. ed. iii. p. 799. Gren. & Godr. 
Fl. de Fr. Vol. III. p. 274. 
Satyrium Epipogium, Linn. Sp. Pl. p. 1338. 
The only known species. 
In damp woods. Very rare. Found (once only) by Mrs. W. An- 
derton Smith at Tedstone Delamere, near Bromyard, Herefordshire. 
England. Perennial. Late Summer, early Autumn. 
Rootstock fleshy, branched so as to resemble coral, pale brown, very 
similar to that of Corallorrhiza, but the branches have a few small 
scarious scales. Stem fleshy, 3 to 10 inches high, swollen a little 
above the point where it leaves the rootstock, with a few remote scales, 
but without green leaves. Flowers solitary, or in a 2- to 7-flowered 
raceme. lBracts ovate, 3-nerved, scarious. [edicel shorter than the 
ovary, straight, and as well as the ovary not twisted, so that the 
labellum of the flower is turned upwards. Sepals } to 3 inch long, 
narrowly lanceolate, involute, pale yellowish, connivent. Petals 
similar, but longer; labellum about as long as the sepals, turned 
upwards and backwards so as to be widely separated from the other 
segments, constricted between the base and the middle, the basal por- 
tion with roundish lateral lobes, the terminal portion deltoid-ovate, 
shortly acuminate, crenate-denticulate at the margin, white, the disk 
with a longitudinal furrow, on each side of which there are two rows 
of purple crests or tubercles; spur nearly as long as the labellum, and 
decurved so as nearly to touch it at the apex, very thick and blunt. 
Stem yellowish, often with reddish striz. 
Of this plant I have not seen British specimens. 
Leafless Epipogium. 
French, Bpipogon sans feuilles. German, Blittloser Widerbart. 
* This is Gmelin’s spelling; but it is as often written Lpipogium. Properly, it 
ought to be Lpipogon, according to the form of the Greek tuywr, adopted in those 
eases where it is used as part of the name in the genera of Orchidacew. 
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