EPIPACTIS. ] ORCHIDACEM 217 



2. P. carlnata, LindL Gen. & Spec. Orch. 414 ; F. B. I. vi, 



121 ; Prain Beng. PL 1026 ; Duthie Ann. R. Bot. Gard. Calc. ix 9 

 part 2, 159, t. 124 ; Cooke Fl. Bomb, ii, 707. Epipactis carinata* 

 Roxb. Fl. Ind. Hi, 454. 



Tubers globose or obovate, J-J in. in diam., annulated and warted. 

 Leaf l|-2^ in. wide, ovate, acute or cuspidate, cordate or cuneat^e at 

 the ba^e, 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. long. 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 f;he 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 J- in., slightly curved, 

 dilated at the apex. Anther triangular, beaked in front. 



Sub-Himalayan tracts of Rohflkhand 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. Lip 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.il. vi, 126 ; 



K. <. P. Ann, R. Bot. Gard. Calc. viii, 272, t. 364; Duthie id, ix, 

 part 2 9 161 ; Collett Fl. Siml. 498. 



