158 ` LISTEREA. 
This species is very similar in habit to Р. macroglossa King & Pantling,?but the leaves are 
more distinctly lobed; the flowers are smaller and spreading, and the shape of the lip is ver 
different. 
Prate 123. Pogonia Mackinnoni Duthie, А flowering plant and а leaf-bearing plant, 
—of natural size. Fig. 1, a flower; 2 ditto, with sepals and petals removed ; 3 lip, spread 
out; 4 column and ovary; 5 anther; 6 pollinia ;—all enlarged. 
2. Poconta GaMMrEANA Hook. f. in Bot. Mag. t. 6671. 
Tuber about 3 cm. in diam., globular, warted. Leaf 1:2 to 1°5 dm. in length and 
breadth, reniform, abruptly apiculate, glabrous, many-nerved, its edges much undulate; 
petiole about as long as the blade, sheathed at the base. Scape 1:5 to 2 dm. high, 
stout, bearing two or three long tubular bracts with acute and sometimes bifid apices. 
Raceme laxly 5 to 8-flowered. Flowers 2:5 em. long, drooping, pink streaked with 
white, floral bract deflexed, longer than the truncate stalked ovary, linear-lanceolate, 
acuminate; stalk and ridges of ovary winged. Sepals and petals subequal, spathulately 
oblanceolate, acuminate, sub-connivent. Lip slightly saccate at the base, elliptic-obovate 
when spread out, pale green; lower half convolute round the column and with two 
short triangular forward-pointing side lobes, the disk bearing two parallel ridges; 
epichile spreading, its edges deeply crenulate, the disk hairy and bearing three 
parallel central ridges, Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. vi, 120; King & Pantling in Ann. . 
R. Bot. Gard. Calc. viii, 269, t. 359. 
Siwalik range, Duthi2?s collector No. 24194; Dehra Dun, Mackinnon, Duthie’s 
collector No. 24195; Garhwál, Falconer, Duthie’s collector No. 25829. Below Mussoorie 
аб about 8,000 feet, Mackinnon (Duthie’s No. 22975); Kumaon at Bagesar 3,500 feet, 
Strachey $ Winterbottom No. 19 (Eulophia). Flowers in May and the leaves are full 
grown during July. It is found also in Sikkim, in hot valleys. 
3. PoGoNIA rLABELLIFORMIS Lindl. in Wall. Cat. 7400. 
Tuber globose, about 2 cm. in diam., annulated, often warted. Leaf 4 to 10 
еш. in diam., appearing after the flowers, orbicular-cordate, cuspidate, many-nerved, often 
blotched with reddish-purple, hairy on the veins when young; margin undulate, 
petiole 1 to 2 dm. long, sheathed at the base. Scape stout, 1:5 to 8 dm. high, its lower 
portion enclosed within loose tubular blunt hyaline sheaths. Raceme laxly 4-6-flowered; 
floral bract linear-lanceolate, acuminate, more than twice as long as the ovary, reflexed, 
persistent, hyaline, Flowers about 2:2 em. long, pedicelled, drooping. Sepals and petals 
linear-lanceolate, acuminate, somewhat recurved, pale green veined with reddish-purple; 
the petals rather shorter than the sepals. Zip 15 mm. long, 3-lobed near the middle, white 
tinged with yellow towards the base and conspicuously veined with purple; the upper 
surface with many hairs on the raised central ridges; side lobes erect, obtuse; terminal 
lobe deflexed, ovate, obtuse, the margins slightly undulate. Column 7 mm. long, curved 
from near the base, dilated upwards. Ovary 4 mm. long, oval-oblong. Capsule about 18 
mm. long, the ridges winged. Lindl. Gen. and Sp. Orch. 415; in Journ. Linn. Soc. iii, 
45; Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. vi, 191. Р. Nervilia Blume Mus. Bot. i, 32. Р. carinata. 
Wight Је, 1720 (not of Шай). Nervilia Aragoana Gaud. in Freyc. Voy. Dot. 422, t. 85. 
