160 LISTERES. 
CEPHALANTHERA ENSIFOLIA Rich. Orch. Annot. 29, 
Stem rising from a thin creeping rhizome, 1'5 № 4 dm. high, sheathed at the 
base. Leaves lanceolate ог ovate-lanceolate, conduplicate, 5 to 10 dm. long, upper 
longer and narrower than the lower. Peduncle 2:5 to 3'8 em, long. Raceme longer than 
the peduncle, 8- or more-flowered, glabrous. Flowers white, about 12 mm. long; floral 
bract ovate-lanceolate, acuminate or acute, shorter than the ovary. Sepals ovate- 
lanceolate, acute. Petals somewhat smaller, elliptic, obtuse. Zip oblong, white with 
yellow spots, distinctly divided across the middle by an oblique sinus into a hypo- 
chile and epichile, the former convolute and slightly ribbed; the latter concave and 
prominently ribbed. Column long, terete. Pollinia linear-oblong, grooved. Lindl- 
Gen. and Sp. Orch, 412; in Journ. Linn. Soc. 1, 172, 175; Boiss. ЕІ, Or. v, 85; Hook. 
f. Fl. Br. Ind. vi, 125; King & Pantling in Ann. К. Dot, Gard. Cale. viii, 271, t. 869; 
Collett Fl. Siml. 497. С. Xyphophyllum Reichb. Ic. Fl. Germ. xiii, t. 470, С, acuminata» 
Lindl. in Wall. Cat. 7405; Gen. and Sp. Orch. 412; Wight Ic. 1721; Dene in Jacquem. 
Voy. Bot. 164, t. 164. 
Abundant all over the Western Himalaya from Kashmir to Kumaon at elevations 
between 6,000 and 12,000 feet, 1% flowers from May to July, and extends eastwards to 
Nepal, Sikkim and Bhután. 
35. Epipactis Adans, 
Terrestrial herbs with green leaves and fibrous roots. Leaves sessile, plicate. Flowers 
racemose, drooping; floral bracts elongating and often leafy. Sepals and petals broadly 
lanceolate, acuminate, strongly nerved, р adnate to the base of the column, distinctly 
divided into hypochile and epichile, the hypochile strongly deflexed, concave or saccate, 
jointed to the epichile at a right angle, both entire. Column short; stigma large, 
anticous ; rostellum broad, prominent. Anther erect, obtuse, its cells contiguous; pollinia 2, 
bipartite, very narrow.—Species about 10, in the Northern ‘Temperate Hemisphere. 
Flowers usually in dense racemes, hypochile globular-saccate, epichile 
ovate-cordate ... .. ove ... ... 24 Е. latifolia. 
Flowers distant. : 
Hypochile trough-shaped, epichile lanceolate 5% ... 2. Ж, consimilis. 
Hypochile broadly saccate, ерісе ovate-lanceolate, acuminate ... 2. E. gigantea. 
1. Epipactis LATIFOLIA All. Fl. Pedem. ii, 152. 
Stem up to 9 dm. in height, slender, glabrous below, the upper portion including 
the peduncle and raceme puberulous. Leaves 7:5 to 13 cm. long and from 5 to 7°5 cm. 
in breadth, smaller upwards, orbicular to ovate-lanceolate or ovate-elliptic, acute, many- 
nerved, glabrous, but the margins often ciliolate. Raceme 1 to 3 dm. long, many- 
flowered, usually dense. Flowers subsecund, 1:3 to 2 em, across, green; floral bracts linear- 
lanceolate, acuminate, the lowermost large and leaflike. Sepals lanceolate, acuminate. 
Petals like the sepals but smaller. Lip shorter than the petals; the hypochile forming а 
subglobose sac, reddish-brown inside; epichile broadly cordate, with erose edges, üpper 
surface with usually two globose calli near its base. Column short and broad, white ; 
stigma broad, Staminodes triangular. Swartz in Act, Holm. for 1800, 232; Lindl. Gen. 
