162 LISTEREZ. 
3. EPIPACTIS GIGANTEA Dougl. in Hook. Fl. Bor, Amer. ii, 202, t. 202, 
Stem З to 6 dm., clothed at the base with broad loose sheaths. Leaves 1 to 1:5 cm. 
long, ovate-lanceolate to linear-lanceolate, the margins and nerves beneath scabrous. 
Racemes 1 to 2 dm. long, the rachis pedicels and ovaries puberulous. Flowers drooping, 
distant, pedicelled, 2*5 cm. in diam.; öracts longer than the flowers, lanceolate, acuminate, 
the lower ones large and leaf-like, Sepals and petals about 2 сш. long, connivent, 
Sepals green veined with red; dorsal sepals erect, broadly ovate; the lateral pair ovate- 
lanceolate, subacute. Petals rather shorter, obliquely ovate, obtuse, often veined with 
red, Lip longer than the sepals; hypochile large, saccate, much broader than the ovate 
or ovate-lanceolate epichile. Column stout with two bluish lateral horns below the 
clinandrium. Capsule 2-3 em, long, obovate-oblong. S. Watson Bot, King’s Exped, 341; 
Bot. Calif. iij 137; Coulter Bot. Rocky Mt. Flora 243; Hemsl, Biol. Cent. Amer. Bot, 
їп, 304; Lindl. in Benth. РІ, Hartweg. 53; Bot. Mag. РІ. 7690; Rolfe in Journ. Linn. 
Soc. xxxvi, 49. Е. americana Lindl. in Ann. Se. Nat. iv, 385; Gen. and Sp. Orch. 462. 
E. Royleana Lindl. in Royle IH. 368; Gen. and Sp. Orch. 461; in Journ. Linn. 
Soc. i 174; Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. vi, 126; Collett Fl. Siml. 499. Cephalanthera Royleana 
Regel іп Act. Hort. Petrop. vi, 490; Boiss. Fl. Or. v, 85. 
Kagan Valley in Hazara between 8,000 and 12,000 feet, Duthie’s collector ; Baltistan 
at 8,000 to 9,000 feet, 7. Thomson, Duthie No, 12075; plentiful also in Kashmir and 
eastwards to Kumaon at elevations between 7,000 and 11,000 feet. Flowers during 
July. It extends eastwards to Nepal апа Sikkim, and beyond the N.-W. Frontier it is 
found in Waziristan, and in the neighbourhood of Gilgit and Samarkand. It occurs also 
in China and in N. and Cent. America. 
