124 CXLVIII. ORCHIDEJS. (J. D. Hooker.) [Toania. 



thickened towards the tip, I find nothing to distinguish this from the Japan plant ; 

 the column and anther are identical ; I failed to find pollen. The flowers, black 

 when dry, are so fragile that I had great difficulty in making out their structure. 



101. EPXPOG-U1K, Gmelin. 



Terrestrial leafless brownish herbs ; root tuberous or coralloid ; stem 

 erect, sheathed. Flowers laxly racemed. Sepals and petals subequal, free, 

 narrow, erect or spreading. Lip sessile at the base of the column, superior 

 or inferior, ovate, entire or 3-lobed, spurred, base broad, disk with rows of 

 papillae. Column short, foot ; stigma broad, prominent ; anther thickened, 

 dorsally 2-celled ; pollinia 2, separately attached by a filiform strap to a 

 small gland. Species the following. 



1. E. aphyllum, Swartz Summ. Veg. Scand. 1814 ; root branching, 

 column cylindric, spur very large as long as the superior 3-lobed lip 

 inflated incurved, Palmstr. Svensk. Sot. t. 512 ; Boiss. Fl. Orient, v. 93; 

 Reichb. Ic. FL G-erm. xiii. t. 468 ; Nees G-en. Fl. Germ. Monocot. iii. No. 23. 

 E. Gmelini, Richard Orchid. Europ. Annot. 36 ; Lindl. Gen. fy Sp. Orchid. 

 383 ; in Journ. Linn. Soc. i. 176 ; Hot. Mag. t. 4821. Satyrium Epipogium, 

 Linn. Syst. Veg. 676 ; Jacq. Fl. Austr. t. 84. 



WESTERN TEMPERATE HIMALAYA, alt. 6-8500 ft., Kashmir, Clarke; Simla, 

 Thomson ; Garwhal, Duthie. DISTKIB. Europe, N. Asia. 



Stem 4-8 in., often very stout and swollen at the base ; sheaths 1-2, short, 

 appressed, truncate or obtuse. Racemes 3-6-fld. ; bracts large, membranous, oblong, 

 obtuse or acute ; flowers pale yellow or pinkish, spotted, ovary turgid ; sepals -f in. 

 long and subequal petals lanceolate, margins involute ; lip oblong, whitish, with lines 

 of red glandular warts, lateral lobes small, very variable in size ; spur obtuse. 



2. E. nutans, Reichb. f. in Bonpland. 1857, 36; root an oblong 

 tuber, spur straight shorter than the inferior entire lip. Lindl. in Journ. 

 Linn. Soc. i. 177 ; Benth. Fl. Austral, vi. 308 ; E. roseum, Lindl. I. c. Galera 

 nutans, Blume Bijdr. 415, t. 3 ; Mus. Bot. ii. 187 ; Orchid. Archip. Ind. 

 139, t. 52 & 54 E ; Gr. rosea, Blume Mus. Bot. 188, & Orchid. Archip. Ind. 

 139; Podanthera pallida, Wight Ic. t. 1759. Ceratopsis rosea, Lindl. Gen. 

 4* Sp. Orchid. 383. Limodorum roseum, Don Prodr. 30. 



TROPICAL HIMALAYA; Nepal, Wallich; Sikkim, in hot valleys, J. D. H. 

 Clarice. KHASIA MTS., alt. 6000 ft., Mann. DECCAN PENINSULA, in the Wynaad, 

 Jerdon. CEYLON, Thwaites. DISTRIB. West Africa, Java, Australia. 



Soot like a small potato. Stem 4-8 in., stout or slender; sheaths several, short, 

 inflated, truncate. Racemes few or many-fid, ; bracts large, membranous, oblong, 

 acute; flowers pale yellow or pinkish white, speckled or stained with pink ; sepals arid 

 petals narrowly lanceolate, -5 f in. long ; lip entire, disk with 2 or 3 glandular 

 ridges. 



102. CEPHAXiANTXXERA, Richard. 



Terrestrial herbs, leafless and tuberous rooted, or with leafy stem and 

 fibrous roots. Leaves sessile, plicate. Flowers suberect, spiked or 

 racemed. Sepals and petals subsimilar, free, conniving. Lip included, 

 erect from the base of the column, hypochile concave or saccate embracing 

 the column, epicbile short. Column semi-terete, rostellum short or obso- 

 lete ; stigma anticous ; anther erect ; pollinia 2, 2-partite. Capsule erect. 

 Species about 10, north temperate regions. 



