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Column stout, curved, the edges of Ње clinandrium lobulate. Stigma very large, 
occupying two-thirds of the anterior face of the column, Anther globose, with a semi- 
circular opening in front; pollinia broadly obovoid, compressed, their caudicles very 
slender. Boiss. Fl. Orient. V, 93; Reichb. Ic. Fl. Germ. XIII, t. 468; Hook. fil. 
Fl. Br. Ind. VI, 124. Е. Gmelin, Richard Orchid. Europ. Annot. 36; Lindl. Gen. 
and Spec. Orch. 383; in Journ, Linn. Soc. I, 176: Bot. Mag., t. 4821. Satyrium 
Epipogium, Linn, Syst. Veg. 676; Jacq. Fl. Austr., t. 84. - 
Sikkim, in the Lachen Valley, at an e'evation of 12,000 feet; in flower during 
September; Pantling No. 418. Along the Himalayan range to Kashmir. Distrib.—Europe, 
N. Asia, | ; | 
The whole plant is of a faint yellowish colour, except the lip which has red 
streaks on its spur and on the carunculate ridges of its upper surface. 
PLATE 994.-- Epipogum aphyllum, Swartz. A plant, of natural size. Fig. 1 a flower, 2 floral bract, 
stalked ovary, column and lip, ?л profile, 3 sepals and petals, separated, 4 apex of ovary, column with 
anther i» sifu, and stigma, 5 empty anther, 6 pollinia (swollen from immersion in fluid); a// enlarged. 
2. Еріроом nutans, Reichb. fil. in Bonplandia for 1857, p. 36. 
Glabrous; whole plant 4 to 16 in. high. Stem short or slender, proceeding from 
an oblong or fusiform under-ground tuber 2 in. or more in length; sheaths few, lax, 
scattered, broad, obtuse, "5 or :6 in. long. Raceme 2 to 8 in. long, with distant 
drooping flowers “5 in. long (excluding the ovary); floral bract membranous, elliptic, 
acute, concave, shorter than the shortly-stalked ovary. Sepals and petals linear-oblong, 
acute, connivent. Lip elliptic, from a broad base, concave, entire, the apex with a 
short blunt apiculus, the upper surface with two (? sometimes three) parallel carunculate 
ridges; the spur short, slightly bulbous, less than half as long as either ovary or lip. 
Column short, stigma small. Anther large, sub-quadrate ; pollinia two, each with two unequal 
lobes and attached below to a thin rather long caudicle. Lindl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. I, 
177; Benth. Fl. Austral. VI, 308; Hook. fil. Fl Br. Ind. VI, 194. Е. roseum, Lindl. 
1. с. 177. Galera nutans, Blume Bijdr. 416, t. 3; Mus. Bot. Lugd. Bat. II, 187; Fl. 
Javæ, Orchid. 117, t. 52C. and 54E; Lindl. Gen. and Spec. Orch. 500, G. rosea, Blume 
Mus, Bot. Lugd. Bat. 188. Podanthera pallida, Wight Ic. t. 1759. Ceratopsis rosea, 
Lindl. Gen. and Spec. Orchid. 384. Limodorum roseum, Don Prod. 30. . 
Sikkim, in hot valleys, ascending to elevations of 4,000 feet; in flower from April 
to June; Pantling No. 147. Westward as far as Nepal, in similar situations, Khasia 
Hills; G. Mann. The Deccan, Ceylon. Distrib. Java, Australia, West Africa. ' 
The stem and ovaries are of a very pale ochraceous yellow, the sheaths being 
brown. The flowers in the Sikkim plant are white, the lip having a few reddish-brown 
spots on its upper surface. Occasionally the flowers are spotted with pink. In expanded 
flowers, the pollinia rest directly: on the stigma, and become absorbed in it as the plant 
gets old; only in the bud are the pollinia found lying within the anther: 
Prate 935.— Epipogumt nutans, Reichb. fil: A plant, of natural size Fig. 1 floral bract and flower, 
іп profile, 2 stalked ovary, column ‘and lip, in profile, 3 the lip, 4 profile of the column, showing the 
anther (a), pollinia (p), stigma (s), column (с), and ovary (о), 5 front of column showing anther (a), two 
grooves ‘in which the caudicles cf the pollinia lie (g); póllinia (p), stigma (s), 6 pollinia; all enlarged. 
