llerminium.] OXLVIIL ORCHIDEX. (J. D. Hooker.) 129 
musky at night; sepals and petals subconnivent ; sepals oblong, obtuse; petals un- 
equal-sided towards the base, tips fleshy; lobes and lip narrow, base concave ; 
mstellum prominent between the base of the anther-cells. 
2. H. angustifolium, Benth. mss.; tall, leaves elongate linear, spike 
very long slender many-fid., bracts equalling the ovary or shorter, flowers 
"tel, petals linear very narrow l-nerved, lip linear equalling the 
sepals in length or longer narrow trifid beyond the middle, side lobes 
form, midlobe very short. Accras angustifolia, Lindl. in Wall. Cat. 
1; Gen. & Sp. Orchid. 232; Bot. Reg. under t. 1525; in Journ. Linn. 
Sve. ii. 43; Royle Il. t. 87; Wight Ic. t. 1691. H. longicruris, Wright in 
Mem. Acad, Philad, Ser. 2, vi. 411.—Thisbe, Fale. in Lindl. Veg. Kingd. 
»¢ (name only). 
TEMPERATE Himanaya, from 4-8000 ft. in the North West, and 6-15,000 ft. 
( ke) in Sikkim. Kuasta Hits, alt. 5—6000 ft. UPPER Assam, in the Naga 
^al. 7000 ft., Clarke, Prain. TENASSERIM Parish.—DISTRIB. China, Man- 
churia, Japan. 
Stout or slender, 1-3 ft. high, 1 or several leaved. Leaves scattered, 2-8 in., acute, 
rarely iin. broad, Spike 2-10 in.; flowers often very many, subsecund ; perianth 
pünivent, 1-2 in, diam., green ; sepals oblong, obtuse ; petals mefnbranous, acute ; 
1 from as long to twice as long as the sepals or more, base not concave, lateral lobes 
M Ty slender, Anther-cells parallel, pollinia clavate, glands large, staminodes large 
Preading ; stigmatic lobes obscure or 0 ; rostellum minute, 2-lobed. Capsule } in., 
» oblong, turgid.—Has in Sikkim an extraordinary range in altitude. 
th d H. fallax, Hook. f. Ic. Plant. ined. ; slender, leaves 1-2 towards 
® middle of stem linear or linear-lanceolate, spikes many-fid. | subsecund, 
m Dër than the short decurved ovaries, sepals spreading oblong- 
an th echte broader than the erect narrow falcate petals, lip shorter 
clavel] sepals obtusely 3-lobed, sac incurved subdidymous subglobose or 
Orchid With an inflated tip. Peristylus fallax, Lindl. Gen. & Sp. 
in Lind} oe, Herminum fallax, Lindl. in Wall. Cat. 7412. Cybele, Fale. 
` Veg. Kingd. 193, e C. alpina, Falc. mss. 
VE and SuB-ALPINE H1MALAYA, alt. 7—12,000 ft., from Garwhal to Sikkim. 
base xi Variable in height, from 4-18 in.; stem with long tubular sheaths at the 
midd one or two lanceolate sheaths above the leaf. Leaves usually solitary about 
see of the stem, 2-5 by 4-1 in., acute, sometimes two subopposite towards 
iin, or 1r the stem. Scape naked; spike 2-5 in., lax or dense fld. ; lower Pract 
Petals varia lanceolate ; ovary i-1 in., shortly beaked ; sepals i in., l-nerved, an 
ib, and able in absolute and relative breadth ; lip short and fleshy or nasrower, 
anther ver distinct nerves, base of limb truncate at the short broad concave claw ; 
e d Ty small, cells parallel, tubes 0; pollinia ovoid, of few very large grains, 
inconspic e targe solid shining glands which are exposed, one on side of the 
nous rostellum ; stigmatic processes very short, subglobose. 
"* rr. . 
Lip entire, Bracts short in all but H. gramineum. 
nly dj, JO8ephi, Reichb. f. in Flora lv. (1872) 276; stout, leaves 2 
e nceolate or oblanceolate, bracts minute, flowers large } in. diam. 
Lindl, in le and petals erect, lip broadly ovate acute. H. grandiflorum, 
E in Herb, Ind, Or. H. f. & T. 
Plant, 5-4 ‘MALAYA, alt. 11-14,000 ft., J. D. H. . Spik 
lM in, d in. high, Leaves 3-5 by 4-1 in., obtuse acute or acuminate. Spie 
ty ue we $ in. diam., not secund ; bracts much shorter than the gibbous 
ti pa 3-nerved, lateral falcately ovate, base rounded ; petals as long, ova e, 
YOL, mg thickened obtuse ; lip larger than the sepals, flat, with a thie ene 
