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ascending ran ly erect. E. vulgaris, Brand. For. FL 501. Garwhal 



and Kuiuaou. 



Var. y. siltldmensis ; branchlets 12 in. high usually erect robust but 

 sot'tish, furrowed when dry and brownish, sheaths of leaves elongate, 

 male spikes larger. E. vulgaris, Brandts I.e., the Sikkim plant. (E. 

 macrocephala, Bertolon. Misc. xxiii. 17, t. 3.) Sikkim. 



4. E. NEBRODENSIS (Tiueo), Stapf I. c. 77, t. 3, xx. f. 1-7; an erect shrub, 

 branches slender rigid usually strict, male spikes few or solitary crowded 

 sessile, fern, cones 1-fld., innermost bracts connate for one -third of their 

 length. 



Var. procera j branchlets perfectly smooth, semi-mature fern, cones narrower 

 longer, seeds elongate-ovate. Kuhhvar, Lahul, and Western Tibet. 

 Distrib. Affghanistan and eastward to Greece. 



(With regard to E. vulgaris, A. Rich., to which I have referred E. Gerardiana 

 uid nebrodensis var. procera, Stapf describes it as M. distachya, Linn. It may be 

 useful to give Stapt's diagnosis of it, so as to enable Indian botanists to compare the 

 three, premising that he places it in tribe Leptocladce. 



E. DISTACHYA (Linn.), Stapf I.e. 66, t. 2, xvii. f. 1-5; low or very low shrub, 

 erect or ascending from a long or short prostrate base, male spikes solitary clustered 

 or subracemosely panicled, bracts of the fern, cone shorter than the two seeds, tubule 

 of ovule (and seed) erect.) 



P. 667. The Key to the genera of Orchidese having been compiled from the 

 Genera Plantarum before the analysis of the Indian species was far advanced, re- 

 quires revision, the results of which will be given at the end of the Order in 

 Vol. VI. 



