140 CXLVIII. OROHIDE®. (J. D. Hooker.) [ Habenaria, 
NILGHIRI and TRAVANCORE Mrs., Heyne, &c. 
Stem 6-12 in. Leaves 2-5 in., usually linear-oblong, rarely (as figured by 
Wight) shorter and broader. Spike 3—6-fld.; upper half of ovary almost filiform; 
flowers nearly 1 in. long ; side lobes of lip longer than the linear midlobe; mouth of 
spur caruncled; anther-cells broad, parallel, tubes rather long spreading, pollinis 
as long as their caudicles; stigmatic processes short, clavate ; rostellum low, broad. 
25. H. platyphylla, Spreng. Syst. Veg. iii. 690; scapigerous, leaves 
sessile orbicular or elliptic, spike short dense-fld., bracts shorter than the 
long-beaked ovary, sepals broadly oblong obtuse, petals linear narrow, lip 
3-lobed, side lobes small rounded, midlobe lanceolate, spur longer than the 
ovary slender. Lindl. Gen. & Sp. Orchid. 323; Grah. Cat. Bomb. Pl. 201; 
Wight Ic.t.1709. Orchis platyphyllos, Willd. Sp. Pl. iv. 10; O. plantaginea, 
Roxb, Cor. Pl. 32, t. 37; Fl. Ind. iii. 450. O. Roxburghii, Pers. Syn. 1. 
03. 
The Deccan PENINSULA ; from the Concan and the Circars to Travancore. 
Leaves 3—6, appressed to the earth, fleshy, 3—5 in. long,and as broad or narrower. 
Scape 6-18 in. ; stout, strict; sheaths many, erect, narrowly subulate ` spike 2-4 in, 
round-topped, flowers white, sweet-scented ; sepals concave ; ovary 1 in., beak slender, 
as long as the body; lip much less deeply lobed than in others of this group, margins 
erose, spur sometimes twice as long as the ovary, mouth funnel-shaped, with a short 
tooth; anther-cells divergent, tubes long, polliniar glands small; stigmatic processes 
subglobose ; rostellum short triangular. 
26. H. Lindleyana, Steud. Nomencl. EA. 3. 716; leaves subradical 
large ovate-oblong acute, scape tall with a few lanceolate sheaths at the 
tip, raceme few-fld., flowers large, bracts narrowly lanceolate shorter than 
the very long ovary, dorsal sepal much smaller than the large oblong acute 
entire lateral, petals small falcate, side lobes of lip narrow linear muc 
shorter and narrower than the linear-oblong obtuse midlobe, spur filiform 
longer than the ovary. H. latifolia, Lindl. Gen. & Sp. Orchid 323. 
MALAY PENINSULA (Jc, Finlayson in Herb. Kew). 
Leaves 5-6 by 2-2} in., membranous, almost petioled, many-nerved. Scapt 
12 in.; bracts 4 in., linear-lanceolate, membranous ; ovary 1} in. ; flowers white, Spuf 
green; dorsal sepal broadly ovate, acuminate, reflexed, lateral 2 in. long, subfalcate, 
5-7-nerved ; petals much smaller, acuminate; lip 1 in., rather longer than the 
sepals, midlobe 3-nerved;) tube of anther-cells long, slender; stigmatic processes 
elongate.—A noble species. Lindley gives “Ceylon, Macrae ” as its origin, but a5# 
fine drawing by Finlayson (who collected only in the borders of Siam) is in erb. 
Kew, and Thwaites never saw the plant in Ceylon, this is, no doubt, one of several 
plants in Herb. Lindley wrongly attributed to Ceylon. It is evidently nearly allied to 
H. platyphylla. 
27. H. suaveolens, Dalz. in Hook. Journ. Bot. ii. (1850) 263 ; leaves 
subradical linear or linear-oblong acuminate, scape slender, spike few-H4., 
flowers secund, bracts longer than the ovary narrowly cymbiform acumi- 
nate, sepals subequal, petals as long but broader, lip cuneately flabellate, 
side lobes broad, midlobe as long narrow, spur as long as the curved beak 
ovary, tip subclavate. Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 268 (excl. syn.). 
The CoNcAN ; between Vignorla and Malwan, rare, Dalzell. 
Leaves 4-6 by i-i in., rather thick. Scape 6-12 in., often flexuous ; sheaths 
1-3 in. ; bracts 3 in. long, finely acuminate, herbaceous; flowers 3-6, j in. broad, 
white, jasmine-scented ; dorsal sepal orbicular-ovate, obtuse, lateral subfalcate, 
ovate-oblong, acute; petals triangular-ovate, subacute ; lip as long as the late 
sepals, as broad as long, side lobes toothed or entire; anther narrow, erect, apiculate, 
cells contiguous narrow, tubes 0; pollinia clavate, as long as their stout caudicles; 
