Habenaria.] CXLVIII. ORCHIDEZ. (J. D. Hooker.) 153 
Sect. IV. HoroaLossa (see p. 132). See also H. Mandersii and reni- 
formis. 
* Stigmatic processes large. 
t Stem leafy upwards. 
67. H.latilabris, Hook. f.; leaves sessile ovate or oblong acumi- 
nate, spike many-fld., bracts green longer than the ovary, dorsal sepal 
broadest, lateral breadly ovate, petals dimidiate-ovate or broadly ovate, 
lip linear or lanceolate, spur Hexuous Jonger than the curved beaked ovary. 
Platanthera acuminata, Lindl. in Wall. Cat. 7040; Gen. & Sp. Orchid. 
289. P. latilabris, Lindl. Gen. S- Sp. de P. orchidis, Wall. Cat. 7039 B. 
TEMPERATE HIMALAYA ; from Kashmir, alt. 5-10,000 ft, to Sikkim, 
alt. 7-12,000 ft. CENTRAL Innra, Hope (Herb. Clarke). . 
Stem 6-18 in., stout or slender, leafy. Leaves 3-5 in., usually sheathing. 
Spike 8-10 in., lax-fld. ; bracts ovate-lanceolate, lower leafy ; ovary 3-4 in., curved ; 
flowers yellow-green, 4—14 in. diam. or more ; sepals 3-5-nerved, glabrous or ciliolate, 
lateral spreading or deflexed, dorsal orbicular concave; petals as long as the lateral 
sepals, variable in shape, fleshy, lower base gibbous; spur stout or slender, often 
‘avolute and upcurved ; anther-cells contiguous, tubes O; caudicles of pollinia very 
short, glands small; stigmatic processes large, subglobose; rostellum short, tri- 
angular, obtuse, Capsule 3 in., sessile, fusiform, shortly beaked, more or less curved 
0r twisted.— A very common and variable species in the Himalaya. 
08. H. stenantha, Hook. f. ; leaves many sessile oblong, spike many- 
fid., bracts green much longer than the flowers, dorsal sepal oblong, lateral 
near deflexed, petals erect as long as the sepals linear, lip linear obtuse, 
"Pur flexuous longer than the straight obtuse ovary. 
TEMPERATE HIMALAYA ; Sikkim, alt. 8-12,000 ft., J. D. H., Clarke. 
whi ha near to H. latilabris, differing in the form of the lateral sepals and petals, 
th n are very narrow, and straight; and the former being sharply deflexed, w nist 
o DU" are erect; the flower hence looks as if laterally compressed. The lip 
a Very narrow, but more so than in forms of acuminata, with which stenantha 
“Brees in the column, anthers, pollinia, stigma and rostellum. 
in R. densa, Wall. in Lindl. Qen. & Sp. Orchid. 326; tall, stout, 
tarros "any ovate or oblong acuminate base sheathing, spike very ong 
m ow stout, bracts sheathing and exceeding the very short ovaries, owers 
: small, Sepals obtuse puberulous, lip linear obtuse as long as the sepals, 
at pavate shorter than the ovary. Platanthera densa, Lindl. in Wall. 
7046. p, clavigera, Lindl. Gen. & Sp. Orchid. 289. 
TEMPERATE HIMALAYA ; from Simla to Sikkim, alt. 5-9000 ft. , ts allies 
Lear 233 ft. usually much stonter than in any form of H. acuminata or itsa ies. 
Lim 35 b 1-2 in. Spike 8-14 in., rather dense-fld.; rachis stout; bracts 
inq finely acuminate ; ovary } in., stout, curved, shortly beaked ; AM erect, 
or na am. ; Sepals subequal, thick, 3-nerved; petals nearly as long, oblique y n Á 
rower, obtuse, fleshy ; lip with a tooth at the mouth of the spur ; anther shor ; 
gland . Cells parallel, tubes 0; pollinia subglobose, almost sessile on the large or Johr 
great], TUEmatie processes large, shortly clavate; rostellum small, erect. Va i 
y d ID sizes a Wallichian specimen from Nepal is 3 ft. high, with eaves 
Donn ^» and a fruiting spike nearly 18 in. long. The most distinct species of Its 
tuber Leaf solitary at or below the middle of the stem (rarely 2). Flowers 
"und, Rootstock or root branching (I think in all). 
