EPIPACTIS. 161 
and Sp. Orch. 461; Boiss. Fl. Or. v, 87; Reichb. Ic. Fl. Germ. xiii, p. 146, tt. 184- 
186; Hook. f. Fl. Br, Ind. vi, 125; King & Pantling in Ann. R. Bot. Gard. Calc. 
vii, 271, t. 363. Е. macrostachya Lindl. in Wall. Cat. 7404. Е. consimilis Don. Prod. 
Fl. Nep. 28, not of Wall. Е. Dalhousie Wight Ic. 1723. 
Common throughout the Western Himalaya at elevations between 5,000 and 11,000 
feet. Flowers during July and August. It extends eastwards to Nepal and Sikkim, and 
is found also in N, Asia, Japan, Hongkong, Europe and N. Africa. 
Var. 1. herbacea Hook. f. in Fl. Br. Ind. l.c.; smaller; leaves elliptic, acute; raceme, 
short,  dense-flowered; flowers 1:3 сш. in diam, glabrous, pale greenish-white. 
Е. herbacea Lind], іп Royle Ш. 368; Gen. and Sp. Orch. 462. 
Near Mussoorie, Royle; also in Upper Burma. 
Var. 2. Thomsoni Hook. f. in Fl. Br. Ind. vi, 126; a small slender plant with 
lanceolate leaves, the margins not ciliolate; raceme lax, floral bracts deflexed; flowers 
13 mm. in diam., glabrous. Е. macrostachya Wight l.c. 1722 (not of Lindl.). 
Western Tibet 10 to 11,000 feet, 7. Thomson; near Naini Tal in Kumaon, Duthie’s 
collector No. 24088. 
2. Ерірастів CoNSIMILIS Wall. Cat. 7403 (not of Don). 
Height of whole-plant 3'5 to 6 dm. Stem glabrous, Leaves 1:5 to 2 dm. long, 
lanceolate, acuminate, the uppermost shorter and much narrower, nerves prominent. 
Raceme 1 to 1'5 dm. long, laxly flowered, its rachis tomentose, Flowers 2 to 2°5 cm, 
across; jloral bract ovate or linear-lanceolate, varying in size. Sepals spreading and 
pubescent outside, unequal, concave; the dorsal one lanceolate, acute; lateral pair much 
wider. Petals ovate, acute, tomentose outside on the thickened midrib. Zip a little 
shorter than the sepals; hypochile trough-shaped, bearing granular unequal calli inside, 
with two larger obtuse semi-transparent nectar-exuding ones near the apex; epichile 
lanceolate, with erect lobes, the upper surface with a median ridge terminating below 
the white apex. Column stout, much curved. Stigma large, subrotund, with two glands 
on the lower margin. Anther tumid, Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. vi, 126; King & Pantling 
in Ann. R. Bot. Gard. Cale. viii, 272, t. 364; Rolfe in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxxvi, 48. 
E. veratrifolia Boiss. & Hohen. Diagn., Ser. 1, xiii, 11; Boiss, Fl. Or. v, 87; Lindl. in 
Journ, Linn, Soc. i, 174, 
Gilgit district, Winterbottom No. 956; Chitral district, Duthie’s collector Nos, 16673, 
16674; Bashahr, Lace No. 352; near Simla, 3,000 feet, Collett; N.-W. India, Royle; 
Garhwál, Falconer; below Mussoorie, Mackinnon (Duthie’s No. 22720); Dehra Dan, 
Duthie Nos. 10783, 22720, Gamble, Mackinnon; Kumaon 3,000 feet, Strachey & Winter- 
bottom No. 51. Flowers during February and ‘March. It is found in Nepal and 
‘Sikkim at low elevations and occurs also on the Shan Hills in Upper Burma. In the 
Gangetic Plain it is met with along the banks of the Jumna Canal distributaries 
near Saharunpur. It grows also in the Peshawar Valley and in the Kurram Valley, 
and extends through Afghanistan westwards to Syria, and is also found in China. 
The sepals of this plant are clothed with white hairs on a deep lavender: ground; inside they are 
green, as are both surfaces of the petals, and are marked with broad bands of reddish-brown; the 
hypochile of the lip is purple, and the epichile is pale brown, the apex being pure white. 
Ann. Roy. Bor. Garp., Carc, Vor. IX. 
