152 LISTEREZ. 
1. Listera ovata R. Brown in Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 2, v, 201. 
Rhizome short, giving off numerous thick root-fibres. Stem 1 to 1:5 dm. long, 
enclosed within the leaf-sheaths, and with one empty sheath at the base. Leaves 
sessile, sub-opposi‘e, 9 to 10 cm. long, broadly elliptic, apiculate, many-nerved. 
Scape terete, 1 10 1:5 dm. long, puberulous, bearing а few scattered ovate acumin- 
ate bracts below the raceme. Маселе 8 to 15 em. long, laxly many-flowered; floral 
bract about as long as the pedicel, ovate, acuminate. Flowers 13 mm. long. Sepals and 
petals subequal in length, connivent. Sepals ovate, subacute, deep green. Petals linear- 
oblong, pale green. Lip sharply deflexed, twice as long as the вэра1ѕ, yellowish, linear- 
obovate, deeply bifid, with a minute apicalus in the sinus, upper surface with a linear 
nectar-secreting groove towards the base. Column stout, arching forward over the back of 
the anther. Rostellum prominently projecting between the anther and the fertile stigma. 
Lindl. Gen. and Sp. Orch. 455; Boiss. Fl. Or. v, 92; Ledeb. Fl. Ross. iv, 80; Reichb. 
Ic. Fl. Germ. xii, 147, t. 479; Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. vi, 104. Ophrys ovata Linn. Sp. 
РІ. 1340. Epipactis ovata Swartz Act. Holm. 232. Neottia latifolia Rich. Orch. Annot. 
37. x 
Mozae Juyen in Hazara, Falconer’s collector; Gurais Valley in Kashmir, 7 to 8,000 
feet, Duthie’s collector No. 25359; Sind Valley in Kashmir, Duthie’s collector No. 
25389(a). Flowers during June and July. Distributed throughout Europe to the Ural 
and Caucasus Mts. 
Faleoner's Hazara specimens were gathered on the 10th of June 1838, and sixty-three years 
afterwards this species was rediscovered by Inayat Khan of the Botanical Department of N. 
India. 
PrarE 117. Listera ovata R. Brown. А plant,—of natural size, Fig. 1, single 
flower; 2, lip; 3, side view of column with ovary and bract; 4, front view of column with 
ovary; 5, anther; 6, pollinia ;—all enlarged, 
2. Тавтевл INAYATI Duthie in Journ, As. Soc. Bengal lxxi, part 2, 41. 
Whole plant 1:5 to 2 dm, high, yellowish-brown. Rootstock emitting from its base 
many upturned wiry rather stout fibres. Stem stout, bearing four to six large loose 
blunt sheaths, those of the upper pair opposite and sub-foliaceous but not green. 
Raceme 6 to 9 cm., densely flowered, its rachis glandular- pubescent; floral 6ract 
longer than tlie pedicel, lanceolate, acuminate, with involute margins. Sepals and 
petals about 2 mm, long, connivent ; dorsal sepal oval, concave, the lateral pair slightly 
longer than the dorsal one, obliquely ovate, tapering to an obtuse apex. Petals 
about as long as the dorsal sepal, spathulate, subacute. Lip pendulous, twice as long 
as the lateral sepals, narrowly obovate-oblong, deeply cleft into two slightly spreading 
obtuse lobes ; upper surface with a raised linear callus extending to the sinus, Column 
short and stout, dilated above and below. Rostellum projecting over the fertile 
stigma, Anther suborbicular, its apex bifid; pollinia narrowly obovoid. Ovary subglo- 
bose, about as long as its stalk, glandular-pubescent. 
Discovered іп 1897 by Inayat Khan at Bhurj in the Kagan Valley, Hazara, 
No, 22596. It flowers during July. 
