Orchis.] OXLVINT. ORCHIDE®. (J. D. Hooker.) 127 
below referred to Orchis are referable to that genus. This is owing to my inability to 
‘termine satisfactorily in specimens that have been pressed, the structure of the 
minute rostellum, and its relation to the glands of the pollinia. Moreover, as stated 
under Habenaria, Y have in various minute flowered species of that genus been 
unable to determine whether the glands are hidden between folds of the rostellum, 
or are covered by pouches or a flap of that organ. Careful drawings of the column 
sad anther, and a comparative study of the extra Indian species are wanted, in order 
to describe them with accuracy. 
| Ov latifolia, Linn. Sp. Pl. 1334; tubers palmate, leaves erect 
oblong linear-oblong or lanceolate, spike cylindric dense-fld., bracts green 
p mmate usually much exceeding the flowers, lateral sepals ovate reflexed, 
ip oblong or rhomboid crenate entire or very obtusely 3-lobed sides de- 
sred, spur stout equalling or shorter than the ovary pendulous. Boiss. 
li, t. v. 71; Reichb. Ic. Fl. Germ. xiii. t. 50. O. latifolia, 8 indica, 
ned Gen. § Sp. Orchid. 260. O. Hatagirea, Don. Prodr. 23; Wall. Cat. 
Ta STERN TEMPERATE HIMALAYA; from Nepal to Kashmir, and in WESTERN 
Séi alt. 8-12,000 ft. (16,000 ft., Heyde.)—Disrris. Westward from Afghanistan 
ee and the Atlantic, N. Asia. . 
in E 3 ft., usually fistular, leafy upward. Leaves many, 2-6 in., often spotted 
ios Do tip flat or concave. Spike 1-6 in.; flowers about 3 in. from dorsal sepa 
Dof lip, dull purple; sepals and petals acute or obtuse; lip spotted with darker 
» midlobe small or obsolete; spur straight or curved.—The Himalayan speci- 
ve, as far as I can make out from dried specimens, the leaves unspotted and 
Linn.) cave, and are therefore referable to the European var. incarnata (O. incarnata, 
^» Lindley’s var, indica is characterized as having larger flowers, a rounded 
lip shorter than the spur, which is as long as the ovary. Lindley is dis- 
in reler some of the specimens from N.-W. India to O. maculata, but the lip 
in las, not lobed as in the European plant. 0. latifolia is as variable in India as 
equalling + from slender to very robust, with a lax or dense-fld. spike, and bracts 
"E to or much longer than the flowers, 
ini Os Chusua, Don. Prodr. 93; leaves few linear or inear-lanceolate 
Wed A very short, bracts longer than the ovaries green, lateral sepals 
obovate VC. much smaller orbicular, lip longer than the sepals broadly 
deria Ch obed, Spur as long as the ovary stout cylindric obtuse. Gymna- 
Peri, Pus, Lindl. in Wall. Cat. 7058; Gen. & Sp. Orchid. 280. G. 
» indl. in Wall. Cat, 7059. 
ben 7 Bn alt. 10-13,000 ft., Kumaon, Duthie; Nepal, Wallich. 
ttn, 7 (hie in height and stoutness, 3-18 in., flexuous. Tubers oblong, 
formas, Sone 1-3, rarely more, 3-6 by }-% in. almost filiform in very alpine 
D in, dude 2-4 in., 2-many.fld.; bracts i-$ in., lanceolate, acuminate; flowers 
totter, se 7 White or purple; lateral sepals oblong-lanceolate, suberect ; petals 
We sp spreading, oblong, obtuse; lip variable in breadth, often broader than long, 
Mte ; spore, Droad, rounded, erose or crenate, rarely oblong with the midlone 
bai, thin-walled, slightly incurved, tip sometimes clavate; anther-ce 
9. s ; i ical elliptic 
nike Pathulata Reichb. f. mss.; leaf solitary radical elliptic, 
iue" iat 1 s much larger than the flower, sheaths leafy, sepals 
obscura at suberect, lip obovate not longer than the sepals entir 
Bed lobe »8pur shorter than the ovary stout. Hook. f. Ic. Plant. ined. 
“spathulata, Lindl. Gen. & Sp. Orchid. 280. — ` 
