CEPHALANTHERA. 159 
Near Mussoorie at elevations between 4,000 and 6,000 feet, Mackinnon, Duthie 
Nos. 21782, 22704, 92976; Tehri-Garhwél 4 to 5,000 feet, Falconer, Duthie No. 580. 
Flowers during June and July. It extends eastwards to Parasnath in Bengal and to 
Burma, and is found also in the Marianne Islands and in Timor 
The plant mentioned by Dalzell and Gibson in Bomb. Fl. 270 under the name of P. flabelli- 
formis as growing “in the densest and shadiest thickets of the Konkan, as well as near Dharwér” 
is probably P. carinata. 
PrarE 125. Pogonia flabelliformis Lindl. A flowering plant and а foliage plant, 
—of natural size. Fig. 1, side view of single flower; 2, ditto, with the sepals and petals 
removed; 3, lip, spread out; 4, column and ovary; 5, upper portion of column; 6, 
anther; 7, pollinia ;—a// enlarged. 
4. Ровоміл CARINATA Lindl. Gen. and Sp. Orch. 414. 
Tuber globose or obovate, about 17 ст. in diam., annulated and warted. Leaf 
9'0 to 65 ст. in diam., ovate, acute or cuspidate, cordate or cuneate at the base, 
7—9-nerved, glabrous; petiole 2:5 to 5 cm. long, sheathed at tbe buse. Scape up to 3 
dm. high, bearing three or four loose tubular acute or acuminate sheaths. Raceme 
laxly few- or many-flowered, floral bract twice as long as the pedicelled ovary, erect, 
lanceolate, acuminate, 5-nerved. Flowers about 2:5 cm. long. Sepals and petals about 
equal, spreading, linear-lanceolate, acuminate, green. Jip 18 mm, long, straight, 
trough-shaped, not saccate at the base, 3-lobed above the middle, white tinged with 
yellowish-green, veins pink; upper surface hairy on the central ridges and veins; 
side lobes erect, rather shallow, terminal lobe not deflexed, ovate, acuminate, its 
margin irregularly toothed. Column 6 mm. long, very slightly curved, dilated at its 
apex. Anther triangular, beaked in front. Lindl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. iii, 45 (excl. 
syn, Griff.) Р. flabelliformis Dalz. and Gibs. Bomb. FI. 270 (not of Lindley). Epipactis 
carinata, Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii, 454. 
In the Sub-Himalayan tracts of Northern Qudh in the districts of Bahraich and 
Gonda, Диме» collector Nos. 23864, 93864(а),  Rámganga Valley іп Kumaon, 7. 
Thomson. Flowers during May, and the leaves appear about a mouth later. This 
species extends eastwards to Bengal and Burma and southwards to Bombay and S. 
India. 
Рглте 124. Pogonia carinata Lind, А flowering plant and a foliage plant,—of 
natural size. Fig. 1, side view of flower; 2, lip, spread out; 3, side view of lip and 
ovary; 4, column and ovary; 5, upper portion of column, with the anther in situ; 6, 
anther ;—all enlarged. 
34, Cephalanthera Richard. 
Terrestrial leafy herbs with fibrous roots, or leafless and with tuberous roots. 
Leaves sessile, plieate. Flow:rs in spikes or racemes, suberect. Sepals and petals sub- 
similar, free, connivent. Гір shorter than and concealed by the sepals and _ petals, 
adnate to the base of the column, the basal portion concave or saccate and embracing 
the column; anterior portion short and ribbed. Column semiterete; rosfellum short or 
almost obsolete. Anther erect; pollinia 2, bipartite. Stigma enticous, Capsule erect.— 
Species about 10, in temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere. 
