198 VANDES, 
Scape erect, “5 to 5 dm. high with two tubular closely-fitting sheaths at the base and 
two shorter loose ones higher up. Raceme 7:5 to 12:6 cm. long, rather densely flowered. 
Flowers 25 cm. in diam., pale yellowish-green, the lip tinged with pale purple; floral 
бғасі membranous, lanceolate, shorter than the stalked ovary. Sepals oblong, acute, 
keeled, their edges reflexed; lateral pair wider than the dorsal and free from it at 
their bases. Petals elliptic, subacute, shorter but wider than the sepals. Jip adnate 
to the foot of the column, longer than the sepals, slightly saccate at the base, 
3-lobed ; lateral lobes shallow, with blunt apices; terminal lobe transversely oblong, 
emargiuate, the edges slightly crisped; the disk between the side lobes with two short 
smooth thickened lines half as long as the latter and ending in a free triangular tooth 
in front of which rise five carunculate unequal ridges extending to the base of the 
terminal lobe. Column with a foot half as long as itself and at right angles, edges 
lobed opposite the stigma. Anther apiculate in front; pollinia broadly triangular, 
divergent, attached by a broad caudicle to a thin angular gland. King & Pantl. in 
Ann. Roy. Bot. Gard. Cale. viii, 180, t. 244. Cyrtopera bicarinata Lindl. in Well. 
Cat. 7363; Gen, and Sp. Orch. 189; Journ. Linn. Soc. iii, 81 (excl. cit. Ic. Griff.). 
Epipactis bicarinata Buch.—Ham. ex Wall. Cat. 7363. Cymbidium sp. Griff. Notul. iii, 
343, No. 9. 
In the Sub-Himalayan tracts of Pilibhit in Rohilkhund, and of the Kheri district 
of N. Oudh, Duthie’s collector Nos. 22798 and 25803. Flowers during March and April. 
It extends eastwards to Sikkim, the Khasia Hills, Assam, Manipur and Upper Burma, 
8. ЕшоршА FLAVA Hook, f. Fl. Br. Ind, vi, 7. 
A tall robust plant with a tuberous rhizome. Leaves about 3, forming when young a 
short pseudo-stem by their sheathing bases, developing later than the flowers, attaining 
when fully grown 12 dm. in length and about 10 cm. in width. Scape stout, 6 to 15 dm. 
high, clothed at the base with a few distant close-fitting sheaths, emerging from a tuber 
alongside the leaf-bearing pseudo-stem. Raceme З to 6 dm.; bracts much shorter than 
the ovary, 1 to 2 cm. long, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate. Flowers numerous, large, 
drooping, lemon-coloured. Sepals about 3 cm. long, oblong-lanceolate, acuminate. Petals 
a little shorter than the sepals and much broader, obtuse or emarginate, many-nerved. 
Lip as long as the sepals; side lobes large, rounded, spotted with purple at the base, 
their margins recurved ; midlobe oblong, the disk with two small pyriform basal calli and 
three crenate lamellae. Spur a short blunt sac. Column about 2 cm. long, produced at 
the base into a short foot. Anther with an emarginate apex and a long anterior process; | 
pollinia obtusely angled, attached by a stout broad-based caudicle to a broad shallow 
gland. Cyrtopera flava Lindl. in Wall. Cat. 7364; Gen. and Sp. Orch. 189; Royle Ш. 
370, t. 88, fig. 1; Reichb. f. in Gard Chron. (1870), 1407; Rolfe in Journ. Linn. Soc. 
xxxvi. 98. б. Culleni Wight Ic. 1754; Walp. Ann. vi, 667. Dipodium flavum Herb. Ham. 
Dehra Dun, Royle, Mackinnon (Duthie’s No. 22725); Sub-Himalayan tracts in Rohil- 
khand and N. Oudh, Duthie’s collector Nos. 22795, 24142; outer ranges of Garhwal, 
Duthie’s collector Nos. 25790, 25804, 25805, 25806; Kumaon, below Almora 4,500 feet, 
Strachey 4 Winterbottom No. 20; Sarja Valley, T. Thomson. Flowers in June and 
July. It extends eastwards to Nepal, and is found also in Travancore and Hongkong. 
