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flattened. Column stout, curved, the edges of the clinandrium lobulate. Stigma very 
large, occupying the anterior face of the column. Anther globose; pollinia obliquely 
obovoid, compressed, caudicles very slender. Boiss. Fl. Or. v, 93; Reichb. Те. Fl. 
Germ. xiii, t, 468; Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. vi, 124; King & Pantling in Ann. R. Bot, 
Gard. Cale. viii, 252, 334; Collett Fl. Siml, 497. Е Gmelini Rich. Orch. Eur. Annot. 36; 
Lindl. Gen. & Sp. Orch. 383; in Journ, Linn, бос. i, 176; Bot. Мар, 4821, барғың 
Epipogium Linn, Syst. Veg. 676; Jacq. Fl. Austr. i, t. 81. 
Kashmir in the Liddar Valley 8-9,000 feet, C. B. Clarke No. 81109, рше 
collector No. 25385 and A; Sind Valley 8,500 feet, C. B. Clarke No. 30960; on the 
Chor near Simla 8,000 feet, T. Thomson No. 124, Collett; near Gangotri in the 
Bhagirathi Valley, Duthie’s collector No. 1194; near Naini Tal in Kumaon, Colonel 
Davidson. Flowers during September. It is found also in Sikkim and extends west- 
wards to Europe and W. Asia. 
2. Еріровом TUBEROSUM Duthie, new species. 
Whole plant 1 to 3 dm. high, glabrous. Root tuberous, not coralloid. Scape 
usually swollen above the base and tapering upwards, bearing a few membranous 
broad-based bracts. Raceme laxly 3-5-flowered, floral braet ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, 
entire, longer than the slenderly stalked subglobose ovary, 5-nerved. Sepals and petals 
8 mm. long, broader than those of Æ. aphyllum, all 3-nerved. Гар without side lobes, 
9 mm. long, its upper surface with three carunculate ridges, margins not erose. Spur 
as in Ж. ephyllum, but more slender and with a less rounded apex. Stigma occupy- 
ing a deep cavity on the anterior face of the column. Pollina globose, with 
caudicles equal to them in length, glands minute globular. 
Kashmir, in the Sind Valley at 6,000 feet, С. В. Clarke No. 31230; Liddar 
Valley 8-9,000 feet, Duthie’s collector No. 25386 & A. Flowers in September. 
Very similar to the preceding in general appearance, but specifically distinct by reason of its 
tuberous non-coralloid root, its entire lip and by the very different pollinia and column. 
29. Listera R. Brown. 
Terrestrial, erect, 2-leaved or leafless herbs, with fibrous roots. Leaves when present 
opposite or subopposite, rarely alternate, membranous, sessile or subsessile. Flowers small, 
racemose. Sepals and petals subeqnal, free, spreading or reflexed. Zip adnate to the 
base of the column, usually pendulous and longer than the sepals, narrow, the apex 
usually bifid, sometimes 3-fid. or entire (erect it similar to the petals in L. miero- 
glottis). Column stout, cylindric, usually curved forwards. Anther depressed, its lip 
obtuse; pollinia 2 or 4, cohering in pairs, ros/ellum short. Species about 20, inhatit. 
ing N. temperate regions and high elevations on the Himalaya. 
Leaves 2, large, sub-opposite fis x се Т. бо. 
Leaves попе. 
Lip much longer than the sepals and petals. 
Lip pendulous. 
Petals spathulate, subacute; ovary subglobose .., 2. L. ауан. . 
Petals small, linear; ovary obliquely obovate ... 3. 2, Lindieyana, 
Lip spreading almest parallel with the curved 
column 8| .. вз es 2. Т, kashmiriana, 
' Lip erect and similar to the petals ... ves es б. L. microgloitis, 
