218 ORCHIDACE&. [ EPIPACTIS. 



Height of plant 1-2 ft. Stem leafy, slender, glabrous. Leaves 4-7 in. long, 

 lanceolate, acuminate ; uppermost shorter and much narrower ; 

 nerves prominent. Raceme 4-6 in. long, laxly fid., rhachis tomentose. 

 Flowers 1-1J in. across ; flowering bracts ovate or linear -lanceolate, 

 varying in size. Sepals spreading, unequal, concave, clothed with 

 white hairs on a deep-lavender ground, green inside as are both sur- 

 faces of the petals, and marked with broad bands of reddish-brown ; 

 dorsal sepal lanceolate, acute ; lateral pair much broader. Petals 

 ovate, acute, tomentose on the stout midrib beneath. Lip rather 

 shorter than the sepals ; hypochile purple, trough-shaped, bearing 

 granular unequal calli inside, with two larger obtuse nectar-exuding 

 ones near the apex ; epichile pale brown, lanceolate and with 

 erect lobes ; upper surface with a median ridge terminating within the 

 white apex. Column stout, curved ; stigmas large, subrotund and 

 with two glands on the lower margin. Anther tumid. 



Oehra Dun (Gamble, Mackinnon) ; banks of 'canal near Saharanpur 

 (Duthie). Flowers during Feb. and March. DISTRIB. : W. Himalaya 

 from the Simla Hills to Kumaon, up to 3,000 ft. and eastwards to 

 Nepal and Sikkim, extending to upper Burma and China ; it is found 

 <'i Iso on the N. W. frontier of India in the districts of Gilgit and 

 Chitral, and extends to Afghanistan and Syria. 



23. GOODYERA, R. Br. ; Fl. Brit Ind, vi, 110. 



Terrestrial leafy herbs ; stem decumbent below. Leaves usually 

 rather thick, with wide sheaths and often distinct petioles. 

 Flowers small, numerous, in terminal, sometimes secund, spikes 

 or racemes. Sepals subequal, often pubescent outside ; lateral 

 pair free, subconnivent or spreading ; dorsal concave. Petals 

 like the dorsal sepal and forming with it a hood over the column. 

 Lip adnate to base of column, entire saccate or cymbiform at the 

 base ; apical lobe small, usually acute and decurved ; basal sac 

 with seta calli or ridges inside, rarely smooth. Column short, 

 with projecting rostellum ; stigma anticous, undivided. Anther 

 usually pyriform, with a long erect beak ; polHnia 2, clavate, sessile 

 on a large or small gland. Species about 25, in Europe, Temp. 

 and Trop. Asia, North America, New Caledonia and the Mascerene 

 Islands. 



G. procera Hook, Exot. Flora, t. 39 ; Don Prod. 28 ; Royle III. 

 384 ; F. B. I. vi, 111 ; K. & P. Ann. K Bot. Gard. Calc. viii, 282, t. 

 378 ; Duthie id, ix, part 2, 165 ; Prain Beng. PL 1027. 



