62 ANNALS OF ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN, CALCUTTA. 
ovate-lanceolate; pollinia narrowly pyriform, united at the base into a very short 
slender stipe or strap seated on a narrowly linear gland. 
The drawing from which the plate is produced is inscribed “ Tonglo, near Darjeeling, 10,000 £t. 
above the sea, 2nd August 1862, T. Anders.” 
Fig. 1, flower; 2, the same, with the sepals and petals removed; 8, ovary and column; 4, anther; 6, pollinia ;— 
all enlarged. 
PLATE 93. 
PoGoNIA Өсоттп, Reichd. کر‎ 
P. Scotti; elata, glaberrima, folio longe petiolato КӨЛӨ late reniforme apiculato 
multinervi, scapo valido sulcato, racemo erecto multifloro, bracteis ovario zequilongis v. 
longioribus lineari-lanceolatis deflexis, sepalis petalisque lineari-lanceolatis acuminatis 
viridibus rubro-striatis, labello sepalis sequilongo subunguiculato ima basi saccato 
obovato spathulato albo rubro striato ultra mediam 3-lobo, lobis lateralibus brevibus 
obtusis terminali suborbieulari velutino. ZAeichb. f. in Flora, 1872, 276; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. 
Ind. vi, 120.—? Pogonia No. 2, Grif. Notul. di 977 ei le. Pt. Asiat. & 345. 
Нав.-Влкктм HIMALAYA; Darjeeling fide Reichb. f.). ` CHITTAGONG, at Sitakoond 
(Te. in. Herb. Calcutta). Burma? ۰ 
Leaf 8—10 in. diam., dark green, with about 20 principal folds, and many 
interposed nerves, bright green above; petiole 12 in, acutely ribbed, green 
above, red-purple below the middle. Scape about as long as the petiole, «dark- brown 
below and as thick as a goose-quill more slender, green, and acutely ribbed above; ; 
sheaths few, 1--1% in., cymbiform; raceme strict; 4—6 in. long, rachis angled; bracts 
1—2 in., green, very donder; pedicels with ovary 4 in., decurved ; flowers 2 in. long, 
horizontal. Sepals and petals connivent. Column dorsally hairy at the tip. 
A noble species, much the largest hitherto known, discovered, I believe, by Mr. Scott aid Chittagong - 
when Curator of the Calcutta Botanic Garden, and after whom Reichenbach named it. I do not know on 
what authority the latter author gives Sikkim as its native country, though it is a very likely one. 
Lindley refers the Burmese plant of Griffith to P. carinata, but the saccate base of the lip and flowers 
ere © an angle with = ovary rather indicate P. жи ا‎ characters are, however, not shown in 
’s figure. : 
سی‎ drawing here тем 18 Шом " pA nobilis, ой. Pozonia of Seetakoond hill, 
introd. 1866, figd. June 1868.” 
à Fig. 1, flower; 2, the same with the sepals and  petals displaced and. the lip (64. 3) removed; 4, anther; 
b, кет enlarged. 
PLATE 94. 
Pogonta CARINATA, Lindi, - 
en carinata, glaberrima, folio orbiculari-cordato acuto 7 —12-nervi, scapo foliis 
longiore teretiusculo, racemo erecto sparsifloro, bracteis linearibus ovariis multo longioribus, 
pedicellis brevibus, sepalis petalisque patentibus anguste linearibus oblanceolatiave 
atis жишш, labeilo sepalis »quilongo basi non saccato ad medium Зоо 
