ORCHIDACE^. 131 



A herb with a coral-like rootstock producing a sheathed leafless 

 stem. Flowers large, in a lax raceme, yellow with a white lip, with 

 purple tubercles. 



Tliis genus owes the origin of its name to the Greek words tir/, up, and Trwywr, a 

 beard, from the crested labellum of the flowers being turned upwards. 



SPECIES L— EPIPOGUM* APHYLLUM. Sw. 



Plate MCCCCLXXXVI. 



Beich. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XIH. Tab. CCCCLXVIII. 



Epipogum Gmelini, Bich. Hoolc. & Am. Brit. Fl. ed. viii. p. 432. Eook. in Bot. 



Mag. No. 4821. Eoch, Sjn. Fl. Germ, et Helv. ed. iii. p. 799. Gren. & Godr. 



Fl. do Fr. Vol. III. p. 274. 

 Satyrium Epipogium, Linn. Sji. PI. p. 1338. 



The only known species. 



In damp woods. Very rare. Found (once only) by Mrs. W. An- 

 derton Smith at Tedstone Delamere, near Bromyard, Herefordshire. 



England. Perennial. Late Summer, eai-ly Autumn. 



Rootstock fleshy, branched so as to resemble coral, pale brown, very 

 similar to that of Corallorrhiza, but the branches have a few small 

 scarious scales. Stem fleshy, 3 to 10 inches high, swollen a little 

 above the point where it leaves the rootstock, with a few remote scales, 

 but -nithout green leaves. Flowers solitary, or in a 2- to 7-flowered 

 raceme. Bracts ovate, 3-nerved, scarious. Pedicel shorter than the 

 ovary, straight, and as well as the ovary not twisted, so that the 

 labellum of the flower is turned upwards. Sepals ^ to f inch long, 

 narrowly lanceolate, involute, pale yellowish, connivent. Petals 

 similar, but longer; labellum about as long as the sepals, turned 

 upwards and backwards so as to be widely separated from the other 

 segments, constricted between the base and the middle, the basal por- 

 tion with roundish lateral lobes, the terminal portion deltoid-ovate, 

 shortly acuminate, crenate-denticulate at the margin, white, the disk 

 with a longitudinal furrow, on each side of which there are two rows 

 of purple crests or tubercles; spur nearly as long as the labellum, and 

 decurved so as nearly to touch it at the apex, very thick and blunt. 

 Stem yellowish, often with reddish striae. 



Of this plant I have not seen British specimens. 



Leafless Epipogium. 



French, SpiiMgon sans feuilles. German, Bliittloser Widcrhart. 



* Tliis is Gmelin's spelling; but it is as often written Epipogium. Properly, it 

 ought to be Epipogon, according to the form of the Greek iriiyuy, adopted in thosa 

 case.'j where it is used as part of the name in the genera of Orcliidacca>. 



