164 CXLVIII. ORCHIDEZ. (J. D. Hooker.) ^ [Habenariü. 
andra, Reichb. f. in Linnea, xxv. 226. P. Championi, Lindl. in Hook. 
Journ. Bot. vii. (1855) 28. Gymnadenia obcordata & galeandra, Reichb. f. 
Ot. Hamb. 32, 33. Orchis obcordata, Don Prodr. 230. O. Susanne, 
Herb. Heyne. 
WESTERN HIMALAYA; Nepal, Wallich; Kumaon, Blinkworth, alt. 7000 ft. 
Strachey & Winterbottom. CENTRAL INDIA; Hawalbagh, Clarke.—DiSTkIP. 
China. 
Tubers small, globose or oblong. Stem 6-8 in., rather slender, glabrous or 
puberulous. Leaves 1-2 in., rarely subacute; bases not sheathing. Spike 2-4 in. ; 
bracts oblong-ovate or lanceolate, lower twice as long as the pale purple flowers, 
upper shorter; ovaries 4 in. long, glabrous or puberulous; dorsal sepal ovate, 
lateral falcately lanceolate; petals rather narrower, obtuse; lip shortly clawed, 
base puberulous; anther-cells approximate; rostellum very minute.—I do not find 
the difference between the spurs of the Indian and Chinese plant that Lindley 
indicates. 
Var. nilagirica; leaves broader acute, bases sheathing.  Platanthera affinis, 
Wight Ic. t. 1693.— Travancore, on the Pulney Mts., Heyne, Wight. . 
VAR. major; stem 12-18 in., leaves and larger flowers more remote,—Khasia 
Hills; at Myrung, alt. 5009 ft., J. D. H. ¥ T. T. 
101. H. jantha, Benth. in Gen. Plant. iii. 626; leaves imbricate 
ovate or lanceolate amplexicaul acuminate, flowers 2 in. diam., lip broadly 
flabelliform or orbicular-obovate retuse crenulate, spur very short conical 
obtuse. Platanthera jantha, Wight Ic. v. 11 (? t. 1692). 
MALABAR and TRAVANCORE; on the Nilghiri and Pulney Mts., Wight. . 
Except in being more robust and having much larger flowers, this hardly differs 
from H. obcordata. Wight gives the larger flowers as a character, but in his figure 
t. 1692 they are represented as even smaller. In his specimen the lip is £ in. diam. ; 
he describes the flowers as deep lilac, and the leaves as of the same colour and 
streaked with a darker shade.— Probably a large state H. obcordata. 
102. H. Melferi, Hook. f.; stem pubescent, leaves and bracts linear- 
or oblong-lanceolate acuminate, flowers 1-11 in. diam., lip very large 
orbicular cucullate, spur infundibular acute. Gymnadenia Helferi, Reichb. 
JF. in Flora 1872, 276 ; in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxx. 189. 
Assam (Herb. Wight) KHASIA Mrs., Simons. TENASSERIM, at Moulmein, Lobb. 
Helfer, Parish. . 
Stem 12-18 in., rather stout; tubers oblong. Leaves 4-8 in., sessile, acuminate, 
base narrowed. Flowers shortly pedicelled; sepals falcately-lanceolate, acuminate, 
nearly 1 in. long, green, lateral at length recurved ; petals ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, 
green; lip twice as large as the sepals, very concave with recurved edges, folded down 
the centre, purple; anther obtusely apiculate, cells narrow parallel, tubes very short, 
pollinia clavate, as long as their broadly winged caudicles, glands approximate, rather 
large; stigmatic processes obscure; rostellum small, fleshy, 3-lobed, erect between 
the gland. Capsule $ in., linear-oblong, sessile, erect, ribs thick.— Reichenbach 
describes the lip as broad or narrow. 
Sect. VII. PrzcrocLossa. (See p. 182.) 
103. E. Perrottetiana, A. Rich. in Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. 9, xv. 1% 
t. 4 B. Platanthera lutea, Wight Ic. t. 919. H. lutea, Benth. in Journ. 
Linn. Soc. xviii. 954; Gen. Plant. iii. 626. 
TRAVANCORE; as the Pu!ney Mts. amongst long grass, Wight.  Nilghiri Hills, 
Perrottet. 
Stem 1-2 ft., very stout; clothed with short imbricating amplexicaul sheathing 
acuminate leaves 2-3 in. long that pass upward into the bracts. Spike 6-8 1D. 5 
