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6, POGONIA: GAMMIEANA, Hook. fil. in Bot. Mag, t. 6671, 
Tuber globular, about 1:25 in. in diam. Scape of flowering plant 6 to 8 in. 
high, below about as thick as a goose-quill, bearing three long tubular bracts with acute 
or bifid apices.  Peduncle about 2 in., shorter than the lax 7- or 8-flowered raceme. 
Flowers 1 in. long, drooping; floral brací linear-lanceolate, acuminate, longer than the 
truncate stalked ovary, strongly deflexed; stalk and ribs of the ovary winged. Sepals 
and petals sub-equal, elliptic-oblanceolate, acuminate, sub-connivent. Lip minutely 
saccate at the base, elliptic-obovate when spread out, the lower half convolute round 
the column and bearing two short triangular forward-pointing side lobes; the anterior 
half expanded, its edges crenulate-lobulate; the disc of the convolute part with two 
parallel central ridges, that of the expanded part with three ridges and many long 
wavy hairs. Leaf reniform, abruptly apiculate, glabrous, the edges undulate, 5 or 6 
in. in diam. and about the same in length. Petiole 5 or 6 in. long, sheathed at the 
base. Hook. fil, Fl. Br. Ind. VI, 120. : 
Sikkim, at elevations of from 2,000 to 2,500 feet; in flower during May; Pantling 
No. 310. Gharwal; Strachey and Winterbottom No. 19; Falconer. : 
The sepals and petals are pink with lines of white and of dark pink, The lip 
is pale green in its apical and white in its basal half. The column is white, except 
the apex which is dark pink. The whole of the flowering axis is more or less shaded 
with pink, as are also the floral bracts and the ovary. 
Рглте 359.—Pogoniz Gammivana, Hook. fil. А flower- and а leaf-bearing plant, of na'ural size. 
Fig. 1 portion of rachis, floral bract, stalked ovary and lip, 2 lip spread out, З apex of ovary, column 
with anther and stigma, 4 apex of the column, the anther having been removed, 5 anther, 6 pollinia; 
ull enlarged. 
7. Poconta Ѕсоттп, Reichb. #1. in Flora, 1872, 276. 
Tuber depressed-globular, 1°25 in. in diam. Scape of flowering plant 8 to 15 in. 
long, slender, bearing at the base two unequal tubular sheaths, with а third near the 
apex. Raceme З to 5 in. long, with numerous rather distant drooping flowers about 
“65 in. long; floral bract linear, acuminate, longer than the stalked ovary, much 
deflexed; ovary and its stalk winged, the latter truncate at the apex. Sepals and 
petals sub-equal, linear-lanceolate, sub-connivent. Lip minutely saccate at the base, 
broadly sub-obovate when spread out, the lower two-thirds sub-convolute round the ovary 
and with bluntly triangular irregularly erose lateral lobes; the disc with three parallel 
hispid lamelle; the anterior third or lobe broadly ovate, tapering to the sub-obtuse 
apex, its edges coarsely undulate-crenate, the upper surface velvety. Column clavate, 
nearly straight. Anther with a broad keel; pollinia oblong, conjoined, Leaf large, 
ovate-reniform, shortly and sharply apiculate, glabrous, 6 to 8 in. in diam. ; petiole 4 to 
8 in. long, smooth. Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. VI, 120; in Ann. Bot. Gard. Calc., Vol. 
V, 62, t. 93. Pogonia No. 2, Griff. Notul. ІП, 377; Ic. Pl. Asiat., t. 345. 
Sikkim, in tropical valleys about elevations of 2,500 feet; in flower during May; 
Pantling No. 143. Chittagong at Sitakund; Scott. ? Burma; Griffith. 
The ovary, sepals and petals are green with dark red lines; the lip has its lateral 
lobes green with faint dark red oblique stri», the dise being faint lavender and the 
