128 CXLVIII. OROHIDEX. (J. D. Hooker.) [ Orchis. 
ALPINE HIMALAYA; alt. 11-13,000 ft.; Kumaon and Garwhal, Royle, Duthie, 
Sixxim, J. D, H. 2. . 
Stem very short, sheathed; root elongate, stout, branching into thick fibres. 
Leaf 1-3 in, sessile or petioled, obtuse, fleshy, base narrowed. Scape 2-5 in., very 
stout, flexuous ; flowers 2—4, dark purple, A in. diam.; bracts $—1 in., ovate, obtuse ; 
dorsal sepal ovate, obtuse, lateral oblong, subacute ; petals ascending, elliptic, obtuse; 
lip variable in breadth, from elliptic to cuneate-obovate, crenulate, spur variable in 
length, stout, obtuse; anther-cells parallel. 
4. O. Stracheyi, Hook. f. Ic. Pl. ined. ; leaf solitary radical elliptic 
or obovate, spike few-fld., bracts longer than the flowers leafy, sepals 
subequal lateral suberect, lip longer than the sepals broadly cuneate 
3-lobed to the middle, lobes obtuse, spur as long as the ovary stout 
incurved obtuse. 
Western HIMALAYA; Garwhal, near Rogile, alt. 11,000 ft., Strachey and 
Winterbottom (No. 35 Gymnad. puberula.) 
This has the solitary leaf of O. spathulata, and the flowers of O. Chusua, con 
it be a hybrid ? 
105. HERMINIUM, Linn. 
Terrestrial small erect tuberous herbs ; tubers oblong, undivided. Leaves 
solitary or few. Flowers small, spicate. Sepals subequal, 1-nerved, free 
or conniving in a hood, the lateral spreading. Petals smaller or nearly as 
large, often thick and fleshy. Lip continuous with the base of the colum, 
shorter or longer than the sepals, broad or narrow, spreading or pendulous, 
entire or 2-3-fid, base flat concave or very shortly saccate. Column very 
short; stigma 2-lobed or with 2 globose or clavate processes; rostellum 
short; anther adnate to the face of the column, cells parallel or slightly 
diverging below; pollinia 2, caudicles very short, glands naked, sma 
or large, or with each gland and its caudicle sheathed by a conical na 
coriaceous extinguisher-like shiny brown appendage.—Species 6 or D 
European and N. Asiatic. 
There is no character by which Herminium can be distinguished from Habenarit 
except that the lip has never a spur, only a gibbous sac. H. fallaw & Duthie 
and some other species appear to me to be referable to either genus, but these from 
habit and locality I retain here. The glands of the pollinia vary extraordinarily 1 
the several species, from small and orbicular, to extinguisher-like bodies, truncate, 
hollow, coriaceous, brown, shining, and sometimes split down one side. The caudicle 
appears to be inserted at the bottom of this organ, which is a development of the 
gland itself; it is exposed at the base of the anther-cell, and like the ordinary gland, 
is removable with the pollinium. The Indian Herminia are all mountain or alpine 
and attain the greatest elevation of any orchids. 
* Lip 3-lobed. 
1. H. Monorchis, Br. in Hort. Kew, Ed.2, v. 191 ; leaves 2 rarely ? 
linear-oblong, flowers decurved, bracts equalling the ovary or shorter 
petals ovate hardly longer than the sepals, lip hardly longer than the sepals 
3-fid, lobes narrow. Lindl. Gen. & Sp. Orchid. 305; Boiss. Fl. Orient. v. 82 
Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ. xiii. t. 415. Ophrys Monorchis, Linn. Sp. Pl. 1342. 
ALPINE HIMALAYA and WESTERN TIBET, alt. 10-13,000 ft., from Kashmir H 
Sikkim.—Drstris. Europe, N. Asia. 
Four to ten in. high; root ellipsoid. Leaves l-4 in, Scape naked, rarely 2 
leaved or 1 sheathed ; spike 1-2 in. ; flowers subsecund, A in. diam., yellow-gree? i 
