Herminium.) cet. oRcmipEm. (J. D. Hooker.) 131 
Stem with spike 4-6 in. Leaves 2, towards the base of the stem, 1-14 in. long, 
oblanceolate ; bracts much shorter than the ovaries which are j in. long, curved ; 
fowers A in, diam. ; sepals and petals 1-nerved, all membranous ; anther-cells rather 
divergent, pollinia clavate, gland orbicular translucent; stigmatic processes obscure ; 
rostellum minute.—A very distinct little species, but the flowers are so minute that 
I cannot satisfactorily analyze the column. 
9. H. gramineum, Lindl. in Wall. Cat. 7413; Gen. & Sp. Orchid. 
; Very slender, 1-leaved, spike lax-fld., flowers minute secund suberect, 
tacts subulate equalling the ovary, petals erect linear subfalcate, lip 
ovate acuminate equalling or shorter than the sepals. Royle Ill. t. 87. 
eottia monophylla, Don Prodr. 27. Spiranthes monophylla, Spreng. 
Syst. Veg. iij, 709. 
rai and CENTRAL HIMALAYA; Nepal, Wallich; Kumaon and Garwhal, alt. 
a Dant 2-6 in. Leaflinear, acute, as long as the scape or longer. Spike 1-3} in. ; 
seg LECH with rough ridges ; perianth q5-à in. diam. ; dorsal sepal oblong or 
thick J Ovate, lateral ovate obtuse spreading; petals as long as the sepals, obtuse, 
sath lip flat, with a concave base, variable in breadth, slightly saccate beneat ; 
ceo ‘reels parallel, pollinia subglobose, caudicles short, glands large shining coria- 
's brown ; stigmatic processes low ; rostellum very large, as long as the anther, 
recurved, retuse, fleshy. 
„acemed, Sepals subequal or the dorsal shortest, lateral ascending spread- 
At Pelro 
partite, base s 
para] ` , 
y pi divergent below, bases often produced into a long or short 
i nla clavate or pyriform ; caudicle long, short, or 0, sometime 
tropical ther, rarely wholly obsolete.—Species about 400, temperate and 
en peur pose the following grouping of them into sections as tentative only. 
Plant.) ams view, that the genera which he has brought under it (in Gen. 
e 
m Posed de ermine whether the rostellum nearly overlaps these, or holds them 
Means ai i or, Its folds, or forms pouches beneath them, or a flap over them. ` 
» ea ite DEn) drawings of the rostellum of all the species made from living 
vil help, bid. Modifications of form be understood ; but 1 doubt whether even this 
tee las i towards the classification of the species, for I think its value in this 
en greatly overrated iu both Ophrydee and Vandee. 
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