(Pees so 
~ Pogonia.} ORCHIDACEE. 1025 
pedicels in fruit greatly elongating. Sepals connate by their 
th 
margins with the petals to form a short, 4- or 5-toothed tube, the 
dorsal sepal with the petals forming an upper, 3-lobed lip, the lateral 
sepals a lower, entire, or 2-fid lip; lip proper shorter than the 
perianth-tube, inserted on the very short foot of the column, 
rather broad, its disk dotted with many minute calli. Colwmn 
long, nearly straight, narrowly winged in the upper part and 
8-toothed at the tip; stigma broad. Anther 2-celled, depressed ; 
pollinia 4, unequal, in 2 pairs, powdery. Capsules elliptic, tumid, 
ridged, with long, accrescent pedicels. 
4, DIpYMOopPLEXIS PALLENS Griff.; F. B. I. vi. 122. 
N. Bengal; C. Bengal. : 
A saprophyte, with branching. and tuberous roots; in 
shady thickets. 
920. Pogonia Juss. 
Terrestrial, uni-foliate, tuberous herbs; tuber giving off below 
the surface of th 
Scape, occasionally contemporaneous with flowers. Flowers soli- 
Sepals subequal, narrow, connivent or spreading. 
Petals like sepals; lip sometimes slightly saccate at the base, 
adnate to the base of the column, rather narrow, the lower portion 
pollinia 2 or 4, elongate, powdery, often coherent, without caudicle 
or gland, 
*Scapes very few-(1-3-) flowered :—[p. 1026] : 
Lip without side-lobes, slightly emarginate at the apex; sepals and 
Petals narrowly oblanceolate ; flowers 1-3 plic 
Lip 3-lobed, the side-lobes faleate :— 
Terminal lobe of lip acuminate ; sepals and petals narrowly oblan- 
ceolate ; flowers 2 juliana 
Terminal lobe of lip obovate - obtuse; sepals and petals linear ; 
litary e faleata 
ata 
flower so 
