Cephdlanthera.~] CXLVIII. ORCHIDEJ:. (J. D. Hooker.) 125 



C. ensifolia, Richard Orchid. Annot. 29 ; leaves ovate or lanceolate, 

 bracts of the upper flowers much smaller than the almost glabrous 

 ovaries, epichile triangular obtuse 5-ridged. Lindl. G-en. fr Sp. Orchid. 

 412 ; in Journ. Linn. Soc. i. 172, 175 ; Boiss. Fl. Orient, v. 85. C. Xypho- 

 phyllum, Reichb. Ic. Fl. Germ. xiii. t. 470. C. acuminata, Lindl. in Wall. 

 Cat. 7405 ; Gen. & Sp. Orchid. 1. c. ; Wight Ic. t. 1721 ; Dene, in Jacquem. Voy. 

 Sot. 164, t. 104. 



TEMPEBATE HIMALAYA ; alt. 6-12,000 ft., from Kashmir to Bhotan. DISTEIB. 

 Europe, Western Siberia, and from Afghanistan to Northern Africa. 



Rootstock creeping ; stem 6-18 in. Leaves lower lanceolate or oblong, acute or 

 obtuse, upper linear. Raceme laxly 6-20-fld., glabrous ; bracts ovate, acute ; flowers 

 -f in. long, white or lip spotted with yellow ; sepals lanceolate, acute; petals elliptic, 

 obtuse ; ridges of lip crested. 



SPECIES UNKNOWN TO ME. 



C. THOMSONI, Eeichb.f. in Linneea, xli. 54 ; a span high, leaves (of C. grandiflora) 

 oblong acute, upper linear-lanceolate, bracts linear-lanceolate, lower much longer 

 than the flowers, sepals oblong-ligulate acute, petals narrower, lip expanded at the 

 base into a very short conical sac trifid, side lobes broadly ligulate crenulate, midlobe 

 oval transverse with a deflexed apioulus, keels two in the entire base lamellate, with 

 many small papillae between the posticous lacinise. Sikkim, T. Thomson., 1857. 

 C. cucullata, Boiss. Held, differs in the shorter hypochile with short quite entire 

 lacinise, in the median nerves of the epichile keeled to the tip, in the keels not 

 lamelliform, and in the conico-cylindric spur being thrice as long. (The above is 

 from Reichenbach. I have examined no CepTial anther a answering to the descrip- 

 tion, nor, as I am informed by King, is there any in the Calcutta Herbarium, whence 

 Reichenbach's specimens must have been sent to him.) 



103. EFIP ACTIS, Br. 



Terrestrial leafy erect herbs. Leave's sessile, plaited. Flowers racemose, 

 pendulous ; bracts long, leafy. Sepals and petals firo&d., acuminate, strongly- 

 nerved. Lip sessile on the base of the column ; hypochile concave or 

 saccate, epichile contracted at the base, entire. Column short; stigma 

 anticous ; rostellum broad, prominent ; anther erect, obtuse, cells contiguous ; 

 pollinia 2, 2-partite, gland globose. Species 8 or 10, of the temperate N. 

 hemisphere. 



Lindley (in Journ. Linn. Soc. i. 172) is disposed to refer all the Himalayan 

 species to states of E. latifolia, in which I do not concur. 



1. E. latifolia, Swartz in Act. Holm. 1800, 232 ; flowers subsecund 

 glabrous or nearly so, lip short, hypochile subglobose, epichile as long or 

 shorter ovate-cordate, base with 2 calli. Lindl. G-en. fy Sp.. Orchid. 461 ; 

 Boiss. Fl. Orient, v. 87 ; Meickb. Ic. Fl. Germ. xiii. t. 134-136. E. macro- 

 stachya, Lindl. in Wall. Cat. 7404; E. consimilis, Don Prodr. 28. E. 

 Dalhousiee, Wight Ic. t. 1723. 



TEMPEBATE HIMALAYA, from Kashmir, alt. 6500-10,000 ft., to Sikkiai, alt. 

 10-11,000 ft. DISTEIB. Europe, N. Africa, N. Asia to Japan. 



Stem 1-3 ft., stout, puberulous above. Leaves 3-5 by 2-3 in., usually from 

 orbicular to ovate-lanceolate rarely lanceolate, often with oiliolate margins, flowers 

 |-f in. diam, in often crowded bractate racemes, green variegated with yellow 

 white or purple. Column very short. 



Var. herbacea; smaller, leaves elliptic acute, raceme dense-fld., flowers in. 

 diam. glabrous pale greenish white. E. herbacea, Lindl. in Boyle III. 368 j Gen. fy 

 Sp. Orchid. 462. Western Himalaya. 



