143 CXLVIII. ORCHIDEZ. (J. D. Hooker.) [ Habenaria. 
the tip ; anther very broad, tubes as long as the cells, pollinia narrowly pyriform 
shorter than their slender caudicles, which are narrowly winged on one side, glands 
very small ; stigmatic processes surrounding the mouth of the spur ; rostellum obscure. 
—Allied to H. longicornu, but much more slender, leaves longer, flowers much 
larger, lip longer than the sepals, its side lobes broader, and spur very much longer. 
31. H. crinifera, Lindl. Gen. & Sp. Orchid. 393; scapigerous, leaves 
oblong or lanceolate, raceme lax-fld., bracts much shorter than the 
pedicelled ovary, sepals broad obtuse, petals linear acuminate, lip clawed 
sub 4-partite, side lobes cuneate or dimidiate-ovate crenate caudate, mid 
lobe 2-lobuled, spur very slender incurved much longer than the filiform 
beaked ovary. Wight Ic. t. 926; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 269. H. 
schizochilus, Grah. Cat. Bomb. Pl. 282. Symmeria schizochilus, Grah. 
l. c. on last (unnumbered) page. 
The Deccan PENINSULA, from the Concan to Travancore. CEYLON. 
Leaves 1-6 in., very variable in breadth. Scape 1-18 in., very slender; sheaths 
scattered, subulate: bracts lanceolate ; flowers white, 3-13 in. long; dorsal se 
orbicular, subacute, lateral broadly ovate ; lip much longer than the sepals, as it were 
4-lobed, the lobes tailed; spur with a long erect ligule at the mouth; anther 
tubes long, straight; caudicles of pollinia winged as in H. longicalcarata, glands 
minute; stigmatic processes clavate, adnate to the mouth of the spur; rostellum 
very short, obtuse. 
32. H. triflora, Don Prodr. 25; stem leafy 1-2-fd., leaves short 
sheathing, bracts long embracing the ovaries of the large erect flower 
dorsal sepal oblong-ovate, lateral oblong-lanceolate, petals small linear 
subulate, lip very large, side lobes semi-oblong hatchet-shaped crenulate, 
midlobe shorter linear, spur very slender as long as ovary straight. 
Platanthera candida, Lindl. in Wall. Cat. 7035; Gen. & Sp. Orchid. 295. 
WESTERN HIMALAYA ; Kumaon, alt. 5000 ft., Strachey 5 Winterbottom ; Nepal, 
Wallich. Lower BENGAL; at Mymensingh, Clarke. , 
Stem 8-12 in., rather slender. Leaves 1-3 in., oblong, acute, sometimes all im- 
bricating, or the lower larger and spreading, upper acuminate. Flowers shortly 
pedicelled; bracts and slender ovary 1-1} in. long; sepals } in. long, suberec; 
petals l-nerved; lip 1-14 in. broad, sessile on the mouth of the spur, and there 
bigibbous; spur slightly thickened at the tip, mouth funnel-shaped ; anther verf 
broad, quadrate, truncate, cells marginal, tubes short free, glands of pollini 
minute; staminodes prominent; stigmatic surface inconspicuous ; rostellum broa 
obscure.—The suberect lateral sepals, and sheathed stem recall the species of the 
Phyllostachya section. 
*** Lip short, 3-lobed at the broad apex. 
33. H. Orchidis, Hook. f.; stem stout leafy, leaves oblong or linear 
oblong erect acute, spike short cylindric very dense-fld., bracts longe 
than the short curved ovaries, flowers small, sepals puberulous, dor*? 
elliptic, lateral oblong, petals shorter rhombic-orbicular, lip cuneately 
obovate, spur as long as the ovary slender incurved.  Gymnaden?? 
cylindrostachya, Lindl. in Wall. Cat. 7056; Gen. & Sp. Orchid. 218. , $ 
Orchidis, and violacea, Lindl. Gen. $ Sp. l. c. Platanthera Orchid, 
Lindl. in Wall. Cat. 7029 A. 
TEMPERATE HIMALAYA; Garwhal, alt. 8-9000 ft., Duthie; Kumaon, Wallich; 
Sikkim, alt. 8-1000 tt., J. D. H. à 
Stem 1-2-ft. Leaves 2-6 in., broad or narrow, sheathing, sometimes short an 
imbricating. Spike 2-5 in.; bracts lanceolate, herbaceous; ovary 4 in. long; ed 
curved, subrostiate; flowers 3—j in. diam., pink, odoriferous, perianth spreading , 
