150 OXLVII. ORCHIDEE, (J. D. Hooker.) [ Habenaria. 
58. H. marginata, Coleb. in Hook. Fl. Exot. t. 136; subscapigerous, 
leaves few subradical sessile oblong or linear-oblong margins yellow, spikes 
many-fid., bracts equalling the ovary, dorsal sepal broadly ovate as long as 
the oblong-lanceolate lateral, petals ovate falcate, lip longer than the sepals 
tripartite side segments slender longer than the linear obtuse central, spur 
stout equalling the curved ovary or shorter inflated below. Lindl. Gen. å 
Sp. Orchid. 320 ; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 268; Griff. Notul. ii. 371; Ie. 
Plant. Asiat. t. 241; in Calcutt. Journ. Nat. Hist. iv. 382. Platanthera 
marginata, Lindl. in Wall. Cat. 7038. H. promensis, Wall, Cat. 7038; 
Lindl. Gen. & Sp. Orchid. 320. Orchis mysorensis and clavata, Herb. 
Heyne. 
WESTERN HIMALAYA ; from Kashmir to Kumaon, alt. 5—7000 ft. BEHAR and 
BENGAL (wild in Bot. Gard. Cale.). Burma, Wallich. The DECCAN PENINSULA 
common on the Western Ghats. 
Leaves à-5 in. Scape 4-10 in. ; sheaths many, erect, lanceolate, broad or narrow. 
Spike 2-6 in., cylindric; bracts ciliolate; flowers } in. diam,, yellow-green ; lateral 
sepals 3—5-nerved, deflexed; petals as long, 2-nerved; spur clavate or tusiform 
below the middle; anther-cells distant, tubes short spreading funnel-shaped ; 
caudicles of pollinia short, glauds large ; stigmatic processes long, adnate to the lip; 
rostellum triangular, acute. Capsule j in., fusiform, turgid, curved, obscurely 
beaked. 
59. H. flavescens, Hook. f. ; scape slender, leaves few radical linear- 
oblong yellowish when dry margined with yellow, scape slender few-fid., 
bracts equalling the ovary, dorsal sepal broadly ovate, lateral oblong-lan- 
ceolate acute, petals larger than the sepals ovate-oblong, lip rather longer 
than the sepals 3-partite side-segments slender, mid-segment linear-oblong 
margins recurved, spur shorter than the ovary tip clavate. 
The Conoan, Law, &c. . 
A much more slender plant than H. marginata, turning yellow when dry, with 
fewer smaller flowers, and a more distinctly beaked ovary; but perhaps only 8 form 
of that plant. 
60. H. viridiflora, Br. Prod». 312; scapigerous, leaves shorter than 
the scape linear-lanceolate not margined, raceme many-fld., bracts much 
shorter than the beaked ovaries, dorsal sepal orbicular-ovate much shorter 
than the broadly oblong lateral, petals broadly obliquely ovate as long 48 
the dorsal sepal, lip longer than the sepals 3-partite, segments slender, 
spur as long as the beaked ovary thickened below. Lindl. Gen. & Sp. 
Orchid, 319; Wight Ic. t. 1705. H. graminea, A. Rich. in Ann. 5C 
Nat. Ser, 2, xv. 73 (not of Lindl.). H. tenuis, Griff. in Cale. Journ. Nat. 
Hist. iv. 979, t. 20; Notul. iii. 269; Ic. Plant. Asiat. t. 342. Orchis 
viridiflora, Swartz. in Act. Holm. 1800, 206 ; Willd. Sp. Pl. iv. 13. 
LowrR BENGAL, Griffith, Clarke. The DxccaN PENINSULA; in rice fields 
Heyne, &c. CEYLON, alt. 5-7000 ft., Walker, &c. 
Tubers ovoid, 3-1 in. long. Leaves many, 2-4 by 1-} in., acuminate, nerves 
obscure. Scape 4-14 in., slender, sheaths many and "bracts lanceolate ; raceme 
rather close-fld. ; flowers j in. diam., greenish-yellow ; sepals 3-nerved, lateral T€ 
flexed ; segments of lip variable in length; ovary 4 in. long ; anther-cells short, 
divaricate, tubes short upeurved, caudicles rather shorter than their pollinia ; stigmatic 
processes clavate; rostellum short, broad. Capsule $ in., fusiform, straight oF 
curved, beak short, pedicel } in. 
Var. Dalzellii; leaves radical linear 3-5 in., scape very slender wiry, flower 
rather smaller, spur longer than the ovary slender. incurved. Czloglossum luteum 
