Plants of the Punjah. 



489 



Herbs, Unbranched, with Alternate Exstipulate Simple Leaves, 



Petals united. 

 Stamens none. 



Cephalanthera 



ensifolia, 



Narrow Helleborine; 



Orchidace^. 

 F. B. I. vi. 125. 

 Himalaya, 

 6-12,000 ft. 

 Mahasu, Fagu, 

 Matiana iii forests 

 (Collett). 

 Narkanda, Jakii, 

 Kashmir. 



Epipactis latifolia, 

 Broad Epipactis, 



Orchidace^, 

 F. B. I. vi. 125. 

 Himalaya, 

 6-10,000 ft. 

 Simla, Jaku 

 (Collett). 

 Dalhousie. 



Epipactis consimilis, 



Orchidace^. 

 F. B. I. vi. 126. 

 Himalaya, 

 3-5,000 ft. 

 Sutlej Valley 

 (Collett). 

 Peshawar, Kashmir, 



Epipactis Royleana, 



Orchidace^. 

 F. B. I. vi. 126, 

 Himalaya, 

 7-8,000 ft. 

 Kashmir, 



Anther one. 



small to medium size, perennial, nearly or quite 

 smooth, rootstock creeping, fibres many, long, thick, stem 

 6-18 in., grooved, leafy, lower part often has long sheath- 

 ing scales ; leaves 2-6 in., sessile, short-pointed, folded, 

 lower lanceolate, upper almost linear-lanceolate ; flowers 

 |-| m. long, white or lip spotted yellow, almost erect, bracts 

 ovate, upper ones smaller than the ovaries, lower 

 usually long, sepals and petals i-f in. long, tips converg- 

 ing, sepals lanceolate, short-pointed, petals ovate, blunt, 

 lip erect, deeply 3-labed, base hollow, embracing the base 

 of the column side-lobes erect, rounded, mid-lobe broadly 

 triangular, ridged and marked with a yellow spot, tip 

 bluntly toothed, recurved, spur none, anther terminal, 

 stigma broad, below the anther; capsule erect. 



medium size to large, perennial, rootstock creepmg, 

 fibrous, stem 12-36 in., stout, slightly velvety above, leafy, 

 leaves 2^-6 by 2-3 in., stem-clasping, lower orbicular, 

 upper ovate-lanceolate, 4 by 2 in. ; flowers I in. diam., 

 dmgy purple, crowded, bracts leafy, lanceolate, short- 

 pointed, lower 2-2| in., upper |--1 in., sepals and petals 

 I in., lanceolate, short-pointed, ultimately spreadmg, 

 smooth or nearly so, lip i in. long, jointed to the base of 

 the column, base bowl-shaped, margins rounded, terminal 

 part shorter, flat, triangular with 2 protuberances at the 

 base, margms crumpled, almost toothed, spur none, column 

 short, anther terminal, lobes 4, above the broad stigma. 



stem 12-24 in., slender, leaves 6 by 1^ in. lanceolate, 

 narrow, long-pointed, flowers 1 in. diam., orange-green, 

 sometimes spotted, distant, sepals and petals ^ in., 

 velvety, lip | in., base narrow, boat-shaped, terminal part 

 3-lobed, side-lobes turned up, tip lanceolate, spreading ; 

 for other characters see the last species. 



like the last species, but more robust, lower leaves 

 3 by If in., orbiculai, upper lanceolate, flowers 1 in. diam., 

 red with yellow centre, Hp longer than the sepals. 



