POGONIA. 157 
Garhwál, Falconer ; below Mussoorie at about 6,000 feet in wet ground, Mackinnon 
(Duthies No. 22726); Jaunsar іп the Tonse Valley at 4,000 feet, Gleadow. Flowers 
in July. Found also in Sikkim, but rare. 
33, Pogonia Juss. 
Terrestrial 1-leaved herbs; the jlower-scapes from the same tuber as the leaf and 
appearing before it or contemporaneously ; ¢uber emitting, just below the surface of the 
ground, 2 cr 8 runners, each producing at its extremity a tuber smaller than that 
of the parent. Leaf broadly cordate or orbicular, strongly plicate. Flowers solitary 
or in racemes, often pendulous. Sepals and petals subequal, narrow, connivent or 
spreading. ip sometimes saccate at the base, adnate to the base of the column, rather 
narrow, the lower part convolute round the column; the lateral lobes small, usually 
triangular; the terminal lobe flat, ovate or orbicular, entire or fimbriate. Column elongate, 
‘clavate upwards; stigma anticous, oblong to orbicular. Pollinia 2 or 4, elongate, often 
cohering, but without either caudicle or gland.—Species about 70, in Asia and America, 
and a few West Indian. 
Scape 1-flowered ees 9 1. P. Mackinnoni. 
Flowers іп racemes. 
Leaves many-nerved, floral bracts deflexed. 
Leaves glabrous ; tur апа petals 
large, pink ni 2. P. Gammieana. 
Leaves hairy on the veins, flowers 
smaller; sepals and سز‎ green with 
purplish veins ivé 3. P. flabelliformis. 
Leaves 7—9-nerved, floral Tem erect ... 4. P. carinata. 
1. PoGoNIA Маскікхозі Duthie in Journ. Аз. Soc. Beng. lxxi, part 2, p. 43. 
Tuber globose, annular and warted, about 1:2 em. in diam. Leaf and scape fre- 
quently from the same tuber, but not contemporaneous. Leaf about 5 cm. long and 
broad, with a cordate base, 7-lobed; terminal lobe acute, the others rounded; principal 
veins terminating at the ends of the lobes, with many less conspicuous intermediate 
ones; petiole 95 ст. long. Scape 1-flowered, about 10 ст. long when in flower, 
elongating till fruiting, enclosed within two or three rather loose tubular sheaths. Flowers 
spreading, shortly pedicelled, 18 mm. long; öract erect, shorter than the cylindrical 
truncate ovary. Sepals 17 mm, long, linear-lanceolate, acuminate, light green blotched 
with reddish-brown outside. Petals very similar to the sepals, but a little shorter and 
not so acute at the apex. Lip shorter than the petals, oblong when spread out, strongly 
3-nerved, white tinged with green towards the base; side-lobes erect, acute; terminal 
lobe irregularly spotted with purple. Column slender, 7 mm. long. Anther broad, margins 
of cells toothed. Pollinia 2, narrowly clavate, connate above their slender tapering bases. 
Near Mussoorie between 5,000 and 6,000 feet, Mackinnon (Duthie’s Nos. 21781, 
22705). Flowers during May and June, and the leaves appear about three weeks later, 
