153 CXLVIII. ORCHIDEX. (J. D. Hooker.) [Habenaria. 
than the ovary, sepals ovate-oblong subequal, petals as long linear, lip 
much longer than the sepals 3-partite, segments filiform lateral longest, 
spur about equalling the ovary inflated acute. Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 
268. H. Jerdoniana, Wight Jc. t. 1715. H. Sutleri, Reichb. f. in Linnen 
xxv. 229, Platanthera canarensis, Lindl. in Plant. Hohenack exsice., 
No. 142. Liparis diphyllos, Nimmo in Grdh. Cat. Bomb. Pl. 252. 
WESTERN HIMALAYA; Garwhal, Falconer. Eastern BENGAL; Dacca, Clarke. 
The Deccan PENINSULA ; from the Concan to Malabar. 
Leaves 1-2 in. diam., thinly fleshy. Scape 4-10 in., slender; sheaths many, 
small. Spike 2-4 in., narrow; bracts 4 in., acute ; flowers about 4 in. diam. ; ovary 
X in., hardly beaked; dorsal sepal ovate, lateral oblong, acute, 3-nerved ; anther 
broad, cells diverging, tubes very short; stigmatic processes elongate, clavate, 
adnate to the mouth of the spur; rostellum obscure. 
65. H. Aitchisoni, Reichb. f. in Trans. Linn. Soc. Ser. 9, Bot. ii. 
118; leaves opposite orbicular cuspidate, scape tall, spike elongate, flowers 
subsecund erect, bracts half as long as the ovary, sepals subequal oblong- 
ovate obtuse, petals as long ovate-lanceolate, lip as long as the sepals 9- 
partite above the base, side segments longest spreading and recurved, sput 
shorter than the short curved ovary clavate. H. brachyphylla, Aitch. d 
Hemsl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. xix. 118. 
TEMPERATE HIMALAYA; Kashmir, alt. 7000 ft. Falconer, &c.; Kumaon, 
alt. 9-12,000 ft., Duthie; Sikkim, alt. 10-11,000 tt., J. D. H.—DIsTRIB. Af- 
gbanistan. 
Very variable in size and stoutness, 10-18 in. high. Leaves inserted above the 
base of the stem, 1-3 in. broad, not margined. Scape sometimes as thick as a goose- 
quill ; sheaths few, small; spike rather dense-fld.; bracts } in., acute or acuminate; 
flowers 3 in. diam., greenish ; sepals 3-nerved, lateral spreading, dorsal erect ; petals 
l-nerved; mid.segment of lip straight; anther short, broad, cells parallel, tubes very 
short upcurved ; stigmatic processes large, clavate ; rostellum minute. . 
Var. Josephi; smaller, 2-4 in. high, leaves 1-1} in., spike few-fld. H. Josephi, 
Reichb. f. l. c. 114.—Kumaon, alt. 10-11,000 ft., Duthie; Sikkim, alt. 12-14,000 f, 
J. D. H., King's Collector. 
66. H. reniformis, Hook. f.; leaves 1-2 radical orbicular or oblong, 
scape slender few-fld., bracts much shorter than the ovary, sepals and petals 
subequal ovate or ovate-lanceolate acute, lip longer than the sepals entire 
or 3-partite with slender segments, spur shorter than the ovary or 0.— 
Herminium reniforme, Lindl. in Wall. Cat.7067. Aopla reniformis, Lindl. 
in Bot. Reg. under t. 1701; Gen. & Sp. Orchid. 304, 457; Benth. FI 
Hongk. 363. Listera reniformis, Don Prodr. 98. 
NEPAL, Wallich. 
P Knasta Hiris, alt. 4-5000 ft., Lobb, &c.—Distrip. China. 
Leaves }—2 
j in. long, fleshy, very variable in form, sessile, obtuse. Scape with 
4-6-fld. spike 3-6 in, wiry; sheaths few, small; bracts lanceolate; flowers about 
j in. diam., green ; sepals 3-nerved, lateral deflexed ; lip (in the Peloria state) entire 
and linear-oblong, or with two small basal teeth; in the perfect state with three 
very narrow often tortuous divaricate segments longer than the sepals ; spur usually 
wholly absent, if present slender, nearly as long as the ovary, slightly incurved ; 
anther-cells nearly parallel, tubes very short ; caudicles of pollinia short, glands large? 5 
stigmatic processes large, subcylindric or clavate ; rostellum short, triangular, acute.— 
A puzzling little plant, which in the Khasia usually and in Nepal has been collecte 
only in the Peloria form, without spur, and with an entire lip. Bentham (in Gen. 
Plant.) retains it in Herminium from which it differs in bein ‘mally spurred, 
is obviously allied to H. Aitchisoni, g normally sp 
