273 ORCHIDS OF THE SIKKIM-HIMALAYA. 
margins often ciliolate; 155 to 2:5 in. long and 1 to 15 in. broad, (smaller upwards). 
Peduncle 2 to 3 in. long. Raceme longer, 8- to 12-flowered, its rachis sometimes Spiral. 
Flowers “5 in. across; floral bract linear-lanceolate, acuminate, longer than the nearly 
glabrous stalked ovary. Sepals lanceolate, acuminate, glabrous. Petals similar but smaller. 
Lip shorter than the petals; the hypochile globularly saccate; the epichile broadly 
cordate, the edges erose, the upper surface with two globose calli near its base. Column 
very short, narrowed to the base; stigma broad. Anther erect, narrow; pollinia elliptic, 
faleate. Swartz in Act. Holm. for 1800, 232; Lindl. Gen. and Spec. Orchid. 461; 
Boiss. Fl. Orient. V, 87; Reichb. Ic. Fl. Germ. XIII, tt. 134-136; Hook. fil Fl. Br. 
Ind VL 125. К ne Vili chya, Lindl. in Wall. Cat. 7404. Е. consimilis, Don Prod. 
Fl Кер. 28. Ж. Dalhousie, Wight Ic. t. 1723. ' 
Sikkim, at Gnatong, elevation about 11,000 feet; in flower during July; Pantling 
No. 330. Distributed westward along the range to Kashmir; also in Northern Asia, 
Europe and Northern Africa. 
The whole plant is green, except the column which is pure white. 
Рглте 363 .—.Eprpactis latifolia, All. A small plant, of natural size. Fig. 1 а flower, 2 ovary, 
column with anther in situ, and lip, size view, З lip, 4 apex of ovary and front of column, showing 
the stigma and anther, 5 anther, 6 pollinia; a// enlarged. 
2. Ерірастів constmitis, Wall. Cat. 7403 (not of Don). 
Height of the whole plant 18 to 24 in, Stem glabrous. Leaves lanceolate, acuminate, 
6 to 8 in. long, the lowest the broadest, those of the upper part of the stem very 
narrow.  Peduncle short. Racems 4 to 6 in. long, laxly-flowered, tomentose like the 
peduncle. Flowers "75 to 1 in. across, floral bract variable. Sepals unequal, concave; 
the dorsal lanceolate, acute; the lateral pair twice as wide, all spreading and pubescent 
externally. Petals ovate, acute, the midrib externally thickened and tomentose. Lip 
nearly as long as the sepals; hypochile of lip trough-shaped, bearing granular unequal. 
calli inside, the two near the apex large, obtuse, semi-transparent and nectar-exuding ; 
epichile lanceolate, with erect side lobes, the upper surface with a raised mesial line 
disappearing near the white apex. Column stout, much curved. Stigma large, sub-rotund 
and with two glands on the lower margin. Anther tumid. Hook. fil Fl. Br. Ind. VI, 
126. E. veratrifolia, Boiss. and Hohen. Diagn., Ser. I, XIII, 11; Boiss. Fl. Orient. 
V, 87; Lindl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. I, 174. 
Sikkim, in damp ground in the Teesta valley at an elevation of about 1 ,000 EM 
in flower during February and March ; Pantling No. 125. Distributed along the 
mountain range from Nepal to Poslin wer, also in Syria. 
The sepals of this are on the outside of a deep кезде: colour with white 
hairs; on the inner surface they are green with broad unequal vertical brown bands, 
and the petals on both surfaces are coloured like them. The hypochile of the lip is 
purple and the epichile bright pale brown, the apex being pure white, The column 
is green throughout. 
Prate 964.— Epipactis consimilis, Wall. A plant, of ае siz. Fig. 1 a flower, 2 floral bract, 
stalked ovary, column with the anther in situ, and the lip, side view, 3 lip, 4 column, showing the 
‘stigma with its two a ey жымын column — 6 anther, 7 p 
all enlarged. 
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