Cephalanthera.] cxlviii. orchidb^. (J. D. Hooker.) 125 



C. ensifolia, Bichard Orchid. Annot. 29 ; leaves ovate or lanceolate, 

 bracts of the upper flowers much smaller than the almost glabrous 

 ovaries, epiohile triangular obtuse 5-ridged. Lindl. Gen. St Sp. Orchid. 

 412; in Journ. Linn. Soc. i. 172, 175; Boiss. Fl. Orient, v. 85. 0. Xypho- 

 phyllnm, JReichb. Ic. Fl. Qerm. xiii. t. 470. 0. acuminata, Lindl. in Wall. 

 Cat. 7405 ; Gen. & Sp. Orchid. I. c. ; Wight Ic. t. 1721 ; Done, in Jacquem. Voy. 

 Bot. 164, 1. 164. 



Tbmpeeate Himaiaia ; alt. 6-12,000 ft., from Kashmir to Bhotan. — Disteib. 

 Europe, Western Siberia, and from Afghanistan to Northern Africa. 



Rootstoch creeping ; stem 6-18 ia. Leaves lower lanceolate or oblong, acute or 

 obtuse, upper linear. Raceme laxly 6-20-fld., glabrous j bi'acts ovate, acute ; flowers 

 J-| in. long, white or lip spotted with yellow ; sepals lanceolate, acute; petals elliptic, 

 obtuse i ridges of lip crested. 



SPECIES UNKNOWH TO ME. 



C. Thomsoni, Reichb.f. in Linncea, xli. 54 ; a span high, leaves (of 0. ffrandiflord) 

 oblong acute, ijpper linear-lanceolate, bracts linear-lanceolate, lower much longer 

 than the flowers, sepals oblong-ligulate acute, petals narrower, lip expanded at the 

 base into a very short conical sac trifid, side lobes broadly ligulate crenulate, midlobe 

 oval transverse with a deflexed apioulus, keels two in the entire base lamellate, with 

 many small papillae between the posticous laciniae. — Sikkim, IT. Thomson., 1857. — 

 C. cucuUata, Boiss. Held, diff'ers in the shorter hypochile with short quite entire 

 lacinise, in the median nerves of the epichile keeled to the tip, in the keels not 

 lamelliform, and in the conico-cylindric spur being thrice as long. — (The above is 

 from Keichenbach. I have examined no Cephalanthera answering to the descrip- 

 tion, nor, as I am informed by King, is there any in the Calcutta Herbarium, whence 

 Beichenbach's specimens must have been sent to him.) 



103. EPXPA.CTXS, Br. 



Terrestrial leafy erect herbs. Leaves sessile, plaited. Flowers racemose, 

 pendulous ; bracts long, leafy. Sepals a.n6L petals ^losii, acuminate, strongly- 

 nerved. Idp sessile on the base of the column; hypochile concave or 

 saccate, epichile contracted at the base, entire. Column short; stigma 

 anticous ; rostellum broad, prominent ; anther erect, obtuse, cells contiguous ; 

 pollinia 2, 2-partite, gland globose. — Species 8 or 10, of the temperate N. 

 hemisphere. 



Lindley (in Journ. Limn. Soc. i. 172) is disposed to refer all the Himalayan 

 species to states of JS. latifolia, in which I do not concur. 



1. E. latifolia, Bwartz in Act. Malm. 1800, 232 ; flowers subsecund 

 glabrous or nearly so, lip short, hypochile subglobose, epichile as long or 

 shorter ovate-cordate, base with 2 calli. Lindl. Gen. 8f Sp.. Orchid. 461; 

 Boiss. Fl. Orient, v. 87; Seichh. Ic. Fl. Germ. xiii. t. 134^136. E. macro- 

 staohya, Lindl. in Wall. Gat. 7404; E. oonsimilis, Don Frodr. 28. E. 

 Dalhousiffi, Wight Ic. 1. 1723. 



Tbmpbbatb HiMAiAYA, from Kashmir, alt. 6500-10,000 ft., to Sikkim, alt. 

 10-11,000 ft. — Disteib. Europe, N. Africa, N. Asia to Japan. 



Stem 1-3 ft., stout, puberulous above. Leaves 3-5 by 2-3 in., usually from 

 orbicular to ovate-lanceolate rarely lanceolate, often with oiliolate margins, flowers 

 i-| in. diam, in often crowded bractate racemes, green variegated with yellow 

 white or purple. Oolumn very short. 



Var. herhacea; smaller, leaves elliptic, acute, raceme dense-fld., flowers J in. 

 diam. glabrous pale greenish white. E. herbacea, Lindl. in Jtoyle III, 368 j Gen. ^ 

 8p. Orchid. 462.— Western Himalaya. 



