Diana) ` otemt, omcmibkE. (J. D. Hooker.) 14d 
i i i tellum ; 
glands orbicular, lying close together on each side of the erect acute rostellum ; 
lagna porns short, truncate, Dalzell).—A very anomalous species of this 
section 
tt Lip deeply 3-lobed or -partite, much longer than the lateral sepals. 
28. H. longifolia; Ham. in Lindl. Gen. & Sp. Orchid. 324; stem tall 
slender leafy, leaves very narrow, spike few- and lax-fld., bracts slender 
than the slender beaked ovaries, sepals small, petals gibbously 
mie, lip flabelliform, side lobes semi-circular quite entire, spur slender 
ms long as the ovary. Gymnadenia longifolia, Lindl. in Wall. Cat. 
Westers Himataya; Kumaon, Royle; Ne al, at Nathpur, Hamilton. | 
_ Stem 10-18 in. Leaves 3-5 in., scattered, erect, linear, acuminate. Spike 2-3 
15 bracts 4-1 in, ; Ovary 3-3 in., curved ; flowers white ; lateral sepals è in., oblong- 
lanceolate, 3-nerved, dorsal smaller; petals 3-nerved, as long as the dorsal ; lip ES 
a. long and broad, twice or thrice as long as the lateral sepals, midlobe linear, 
than the side lobes; anther beaked, cells parallel, tubes upcurved; stigmatic 
Processes short, clavate, incurved, surrounding the mouth of the spur; rostellum long, 
; erect, 
Sa H. Plantaginea, Lindl. Gen. & Sp. Orchid. 323; scapigerous, 
narrowly oblong, scape slender, spike lax-fld., bracts half as long as 
i ed ovary, sepals small, petals linear-lanceolate, lip flabelliform, 
Gala ounie entire or toothed, midlobe as long ee os 
P ovary very slender. Wight Ic. t. 1710. Gymnadenia ty- 
Di Lindl. in Wall, Cat. 7053. Orchis platyphyllos, ‘Roxb. Fl. Ind. Ñi. 
tenuis, Herb, Rottl, 
artem HIMALAYA, alt. 3-7000 ft., from Garwhal to Sikkim. Drama, 
Heyne imbu, and the DECCAN PENINSULA, from the Concan southwards, 
: EYLON, in the hot drier parts of the Island, . 
em in., radical, horizontal, acute or obtuse, membranous. Scape 8-12 in., 
3 sheaths small, acuminate; spike 2-3 in.; flowers subsecund, white; bracts 
nerved A lanceolate ; ovary $ in., curved; sepals } in. long, subequal, acute, 
Ing as d orsal ovate-oblong, lateral faleately oblong; lip À—1 in. broad, twice Ke 
ür t lateral sepals, puberulous, spur 1-12 in. green ; anther rather broad, ce 
ie’ tubes short upcurved, pollinia as long as their caudicles, glands elongate ; 
riy Processes large, clavate; rostellum triangular, broad. Capsule j a2 
Mis iform, curved, beak short slender.—lIn this species the caudicles of ie 
sland di at first inserted in the hollow of a single concave 2-lipped or incurve 
4 nceolat i ; i itudinally, each pollinia 
away one half form, which afterwards splits longitudinally, 
we T 
5 len longicalcarata, A. Rich. in Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. 2, xv. 71, t. 
Ing con Mgerous, leaves linear-oblong or lanceolate, flowers 1-4, bracts 
broad obtu e much shorter than the long-pedicelled beaked ovaries, sepals 
i ovate D petals oblong-lanceolate acuminate, side lobes of lip dimi- 
De long p, Hate fimbriate or toothed, spur several times longer thau 
Leier". ovary. Wight Te. t. 925; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 268. 
right Am Wight. Te. y, PL i, 14. H. montana, Wight Ic. t. 1714 (upper 
Grah, Cat k hand figures) (not of A. Richard.) H. longicorniculata, 
' Bomb. PL 200 o macroceratitis, Herb. Rotil. 
hing to Coe p SULA; onthe Western Ghats, from the Concan to Travancore, 
no 1312: . i 
nt 10-18 in, 3 sheaths few, distant. Leaves 2-4in. Flowers white, 
n j bracts 3-1 in, ; ovary 1 in., suberect, its pedicel sometimes as long ; 
~ long, 3-nerved; lip 3-1 in long, spur thickened from below the middle to 
