126 cxLviii. ORCHIDE^. (J. D. Hooker.) lEpipaetis. 



Yar. Thomsoni ; small, slender, leaves lanceolate recurved margins quite glabrous, 

 raceme lax-fld., flowers ^ in. diam. quite glabrous. E. macrostachya, Wight Ic, t. 

 1722 {not of Idndl.)— Western Tibet, alt. 10-11,000 ft., Thomson.— Wight does not 

 know the origin of his specimen, which is a very bad one. 



Var. intrusa ; very slender, leaves few small, flowers few very distant, epichile 

 without calli, E. intrusa, Lindl. in Journ. Limn. Soc. i. 175. — Sikkim, alt. 11,000 

 ft., J, D. S. This is hardly more than a starved state of £. latifoUa, with which it 

 grew. 



2. E. consimills, Wall. Cat. 7403 (not of Bon) ; raceme lax-fld., flowers 

 large pubescent or tomentose, lip nearly as long as the sepals, hypoohile 

 narrow oblong, epiobile longer lanceolate inflexed at the base then re- 

 curved. E. veratrifolia, Soiss. & Sohen. Diagn. Ser. 1, xiii. 11 ; Soiss. Fl. 

 Orient, v. 87. Lindl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. i. 174. E. amoena, Serb. Merni. 



Westeen Tempebate Himaiata ; from Peshawur and Kashmir to Nepal. — 

 DiSTBlB. westward to Syria. 



Stem 1-2 ft., rather slender, pubescent above. Leaves 4—7 in., lanceolate, 

 acuminate. Maceme lax-fld. ; bracts long, rarely short ; flowers 1-1^ in. diam., 

 distant, long-pedicelled, pubescent or ovary tomentose, greenish; column muoh 

 longer than in E. latifoUa. — iJindley is no doubt right in referring Don's H. con- 

 similis to E. latifoUa. A drawing by Jerdon of a plant grown on limestone rocks, 

 overhanging water at Saugor in Malwah closely resembles this. 



3. E. Royleana, Lindl. in Royle III. 368 ; Gen. Sf Sp. Orchid. 461 ; 

 in Journ. Linn. Soc. i.' 174 ; raceme lax-fld. pnberulous, hypoohile large sac- 

 cate very much broader than the ovate or ovate-lanceolate epichile. P E. 

 amerioana, Lindl. in Ann. 8c. Nat. iv. 386 ; Qen. Sf Sp. Orchid. 462. E. 

 gigantea, Dougl. mss. in ElooJc. Fl. Sot. Am. ii. 220, t. 202. Cephalanthera 

 Boyleana, Regel in Act. Hart. Petrop. vi. 490 ; JBoiss. Fl. Orient, v. 85. 



Temperate Himaiata ; from Kashmir, alt. 7000 ft. to Sikkim, alt. 8-12,000 

 ft. — DiSTBiB. Samarcand ? N. America. 



Stem 1-2 ft. Leaves from lanceolate to orbicular, 4-7 by l-lj in., margins 

 eciliolate. Raceme Q-W in.; flowers distant,! in. diam., green with a yellowish 

 (or reddish?) lip; bracts long, lanceolate. — The very broad strongly many-nerved 

 hypoohile, broader than long, with rounded erect sides, are unlike any other species 

 but IE. amerioana, which I suspect is the same, and if so, the latter is the earliest 

 name. Lindley's description is taken from a very bad specimen, in which the 

 epichile is constricted in the middle, probably by accident, as this organ contracts 

 much in drying. Eegel cites Lindley's Epip. Boyleana for his Geph. Uoyleana, and 

 gives Samarcand as a locality. 



Tribe IV. OPHETDEiE. (See Vol. v. p. 673.) 

 104. ORCKXS^ Unn. 



Terrestrial erect leafy herbs, with entire oblong or palmately lobed 

 tubers, ieave* sheathing, not plicate. i^Zower.s raoemed or spioate. Sepals 

 free, subequal, lateral spreading, or conniving in a hood with the petals and 

 dorsal. Petals usually smaller. Lip shortly adnate to the column, 

 spreading or pendulous, spurred, entire or 8-lobed. Column very short, 

 rostellum cupular or saccate ; anther adnate to the face of the column, 

 cells parallel or converging below ; poUinia 2, caudioles adnate to 1 or 2 

 glands, which are concealed in one pouch formed by the rostellum. — Species 

 about 80, of north temperate regions, and the Masoarene Islands. 



With the exception of 0. latifoUa, I do not feel confident that the species here 



