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Plants of the Punjab. 



LEAFLESS PLANTS. 



Herbs. 



Petals united. 



Keottia listeroides, 



Orchidace^. 

 p. B. I. vi. 103. 

 Himalaya, 

 5-9,000 ft. 

 Simla, in forest 

 (Collett). 

 jaku, Kashmir. 



perennial, erect, leafless, brown, roots forming a 

 dense mass of fleshy fibres growing on rotting vegetation 

 in shade, stem unbranched with the raceme 8-14 in. high, 

 sheathed, stout or slender, stiff, sheaths 3-4, loose ; flowers 

 J in, red or brown-green in a loose flowered velvety raceme, 

 6-12 in., bracts |-i in., ovate-lanceolate, as long as or longer 

 than the ovary, sepals 3, ovate-lanceolate, concave, erect, 

 then spreading, petals 3, smaller, linear, blunt, then spread- 

 ing, lip hanging from the base of the column, 2-3 times as 

 long as the sepals, linear, oblong, tijD broad, 2-lobed, mid- 

 rib broad, dark green, column short, incurved, prolonged 

 into a pointed process stretching over the stigma, 2 pairs 

 of pollen masses hanging from the gland of the rostellum ; 

 capsule I in. long, erect, narrowed at both ends, seeds 

 minute. 



Gastrodia 

 orobanchoides, 



Orchidace^. 

 F. B. L vi. 122. 

 Himalaya, 

 7-8,000'ft. 



perennial, erect, leafless, yellowish -brown, root a 

 large oblong ringed tuber, parasitic on roots, stem 10-24 

 in., stout, sheaths short, loose ; flowers |-§ in., yellow, in a 

 many-flowered loose raceme, bracts nearly as long as the 

 flowers, oblong, short-pointed, sepals and petals united 

 into a 5-lobed tube, split in front, lip short, united below 

 to the colunni a^d the sepals and petals ovate recurved, 

 column erect, nearly as long as the tube, narrowly 2-wmged, 

 stigma prominent, anther terminal, pollen masses 2 ; capsule 

 f in., erect, swollen. 



Epipogum aphyllum, 

 Leafless Epipogum, 



Orchidace^. 

 F. B.;[. vi. 124. 

 Himalaya. 

 6-8,000 ft.' 

 Fagu, the Chor, in 

 forest (Collett). 



perennial, leafless, rare, grows on decaymg leaves, 

 only found in Herefordshire in Britain and there on two 

 occasions, rootstock creeping, tuberous above, branches 

 short, fleshy, stem 4-8 in., stout, erect, sheathing, sheaths 

 1-2, short, blunt ; flowers f in., yellow pink m a 3-6 flower- 

 ed terminal raceme, bracts large, shorter than the flowers, 

 raceme thin, oblong, sepals |-f in., narrowly lanceolate, 

 petals are like in size and shape to the sepals, lip above, 

 joined to the base of the column, oblong, whitish with 

 red glandular w^arts, 3-lobed, middle much the largest, 

 pointed, recurved, concave, spur large, equal to the lip, 

 blunt, column short, anther thickened, 2-celled, termmal, 

 pollen masses* 2, comiected by slender tails to a triangular 

 gland on the column ; capsule 3-valved, seeds very many, 

 minute. 



